Bioetik

States of Health identifies the practical relevance of federalism in the United States to people facing ethical decisions about health and health care, and it considers the theoretical justifications for permissible differences among states. It as...

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In this volume, noted moral philosopher F.M. Kamm explores how rights and their limits are recognized in theories and in judgments about hypothetical and practical cases. The author begins by considering moral status and its relation to rights and...

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Patients often are asked to fill out questionnaires before or after going to the doctor's office or hospital. What is the point of these questionnaires? Why do the questions often seem irrelevant? Does it matter if patients fill them out or ignore...

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Now updated with timely global examples, Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition provides an in-depth account to the theoretical and practical moral problems confronting public health students and professionals and offers guidance for how justified...

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Patients face more choices today than ever: the use of big data from electronic health records and genomics allow for more precise and personalized approaches to clinical care. These same technologies give doctors and patients more information tha...

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In The Dharma in DNA, Dee Denver offers a scientific approach to spirituality that focuses on explaining the natural links between Buddhism and biology.

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When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap. Today, we are no closer to the goal of adequate organ supply without living donors--if anything, the supply-dem...

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The Bioethics of Space Exploration provides a comprehensive discussion of the possible bioethical issues and challenges that may arise when considering future long-term space missions. Because of numerous threats within the space environment, many...

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This book is about bioethical dilemmas in a large public children's ward. It goes beyond the usual work in secular bioethics by turning to the classic texts of Jewish thought. The book constructs a discussion between and among several disciplines,...

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This book argues for the importance of vernacular Vedanta and draws attention to the late scholastic period of Indian philosophy. Focusing on The Ocean of Inquiry of Niscaldas (ca. 1791 - 1863)--a work once referred to as the most influential book...

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Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice that previous theories of justice cannot address adequately. Fleck argues that what we need is a political conception of health care justic...

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Microaggressions in Medicine introduces a novel account of microaggressions and applies it in medical contexts. Guided by diverse patient testimonies and case studies, it focuses on harms experienced by patients marginalized on the basis of race, ...

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What do we owe future people? Intergenerational ethics is of great philosophical and practical importance, given human beings' ability to affect not only the quality of life of future people, but also how many of them there will be (if any at all)...

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The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know discusses the most difficult and controversial bioethical issues facing the public today, providing a way to think about them in a rigorous and thoughtf...

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Donation-based crowdfunding is an increasingly common and visible practice where campaigners ask friends, family, and even complete strangers for help. It isn't unusual to see these campaigns in the news and on social media following a tragedy or ...

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Written by a scientist with over 40 years of laboratory experience, The Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation critically examines the assumption that animal experimentation is necessary to the advancement of biomedical research, whether animal-b...

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Healthcare providers are constantly confronted with illness and injury, and the challenges of healing. Yet this very work, the relief of suffering, inflicts on healthcare providers suffering of their own that is often crippling. The most common te...

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Most people believe that animals matter morally, but human beings matter significantly more than animals. This belief, which is supported by important intuitions, fundamentally shapes our lives. It places us at the center of the moral universe, an...

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Genetic Reconstruction of the Past describes how DNA analysis can be used to make inferences not only in criminal cases but also about the ancient past. Part One focuses on forensic genetics and crime scenes. It gives an in-depth account of how we...

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In Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction, Dr. Cristina Richie uses the term "medicalized reproduction" (MR) to describe the impact of technology on human reproduction, including from pre-conception gamete retrieval, in-vitro fertilization ...

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Until recently, brains in vats and animals with partly-human brains have been the realm of science fiction, but recent research is making them real. In Disembodied Brains, John H. Evans examines the viewpoints of professional ethicists and scienti...

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Dealing with major issues in Jewish biomedical law, this book focuses upon the influence of morality, the rise of patient autonomy, and the role played by scientific progress in this area of Jewish Law. The book examines Jewish Law in comparison w...

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Genetic Destinies uses simple non-technical language to discuss the very edge of the knowledge that we have of genes. With this, we confront the fears that we have of gene science and understand the basis of our individual lives: our Genetic Desti...

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This is a comprehensive discussion of the central issues of psychiatric ethics, defining, exploring and explicating each of the issues.

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Dementia: mind, meaning, and the person brings together philosophers and psychiatrists to explore the conceptual issues raised by this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers, the authors explore the nature of personal id...

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Recent advances in the brain sciences have dramatically improved our understanding of brain function. As we find out more and more about what makes us tick, we must stop and consider the ethical implications of this new found knowledge. This groun...

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Much recent work on the ethics of new biomedical technologies is committed to hidden, contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens explores and scrutinises these biological foundations, and inclu...

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This book critically explores and analyses the scientific and ethical debates surrounding cognitive enhancers. Including contributions from neuroscientists, neuropsychopharmacologists, ethicists, philosophers, public health professionals, and poli...

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Carolyn McLeod responds to a growing trend of health care professionals conscientiously refusing to provide reproductive health services such as abortion. She argues for a prioritizing approach, according to which medical practitioners have a fidu...

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Over the last decade, there have been unparalleled advances in our understanding of brain sciences. In this volume on neuroethics, a distinguished group of contributors from a range of disciplines discuss the ethical implications of this newfound ...

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