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29 produkter
Good Sport
Why Our Games Matter - And How Doping Undermines Them
Inbunden, 2018
538 kr
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Why are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden? Are the rules that forbid them arbitrary? Should we level the playing field by allowing all competitors to use drugs that allow them to run faster or longer, leap higher, or lift …
Good Sport
Why Our Games Matter -- and How Doping Undermines Them
E-bok, 2017
408 kr
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Why are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden? Are the rules that forbid them arbitrary? Should we level the playing field by allowing all competitors to use drugs that allow them to run faster or longer, leap higher, or lift …
Good Sport
Why Our Games Matter -- and How Doping Undermines Them
E-bok, 2017
408 kr
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Why are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden? Are the rules that forbid them arbitrary? Should we level the playing field by allowing all competitors to use drugs that allow them to run faster or longer, leap higher, or lift …
Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care
Av Thomas H. Murray, Mark A. Rothstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
431 kr
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"The volume deserves our serious attention. The authors have provided us an invaluable primer about the HGP and its implications for the future of American health care." —Jurimetrics"This book does make a real contribution . . . in explaining why the genetics revolution holds so much promise and …
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Av Thomas H. Murray, Gregory E. Kaebnick
E-bok, 2013
369 kr
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A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse. Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The …
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Av Gregory E. Kaebnick, Thomas H. Murray
Häftad, 2013
448 kr
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Worth of a Child
Inbunden, 1996
638 kr
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Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a …
Worth of a Child
E-bok, 1996
780 kr
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Thomas Murray''s graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a …
Healthcare Ethics and Human Values
An Introductory Text with Readings and Case Studies
Häftad, 2002
643 kr
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This volume illustrates the central importance of diversity of human values throughout healthcare. The readings are organized around the main stages of the clinical encounter from the patient's perspective. They run from staying well and 'first contact' through to either recovery or to long-term …
Cultures of Caregiving
Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals, and Policy Makers
Av Carol Levine, Thomas H. Murray
Inbunden, 2004
529 kr
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As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term and chronic care. Patient care at home falls mainly on untrained and unprepared family members, who struggle to adjust to the new roles, …
Cultures of Caregiving
Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals, and Policy Makers
Av Carol Levine, Thomas H. Murray
Häftad, 2007
367 kr
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As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term and chronic care. Patient care at home falls mainly on untrained and unprepared family members, who struggle to adjust to the new roles, …
Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports
Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues
Av Thomas H. Murray, Karen J. Maschke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
696 kr
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This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts in bioethics, sports, law, and philosophy to examine the need for regulating such athletic performance-enhancing technologies as steroids and gene doping. The use of performance-improving drugs in sports dates back to the early …
Feeling Good and Doing Better
Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use
Av Thomas H. Murray, Willard Gaylin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1984
1128 kr
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The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to evoke diatribe than dialog. With the support of the Na tional Science Foundation's program on Ethics and Values in Science and Technology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities' program on Science, Technology, and Human …
Which Babies Shall Live?
Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns
Av Thomas H. Murray, Arthur L. Caplan
Inbunden, 1985
567 kr
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The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten tion of the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful interest groups. For the most part, the debate has been cast in the narrowest possible terms: "discrimination against the handicapped"; "physician authority"; "family …
Ethics of Sports Technologies and Human Enhancement
Av Voo Teck Chuan, Thomas H. Murray
E-bok, 2020
5367 kr
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This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport. The collection considers whether drug doping should be banned; the rationale of not banning ethically contested innovations such as hypoxic chambers; and the implications of the …
Ethics of Sports Technologies and Human Enhancement
Av Voo Teck Chuan, Thomas H. Murray
E-bok, 2020
5251 kr
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This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport. The collection considers whether drug doping should be banned; the rationale of not banning ethically contested innovations such as hypoxic chambers; and the implications of the …
Which Babies Shall Live?
Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns
Av Arthur L. Caplan, Thomas H. Murray
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
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The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten tion of the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful interest groups. For the most part, the debate has been cast in the narrowest possible terms: "discrimination against the handicapped"; "physician authority"; "family …
Feeling Good and Doing Better
Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use
Av Ruth Macklin, Willard Gaylin m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
712 kr
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The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to evoke diatribe than dialog. With the support of the Na tional Science Foundation''s program on Ethics and Values in Science and Technology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities'' program on Science, Technology, and Human …
Which Babies Shall Live?
Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns
Av Thomas H. Murray, Arthur L. Caplan
Häftad, 2011
550 kr
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The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten tion of the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful interest groups. For the most part, the debate has been cast in the narrowest possible terms: "discrimination against the handicapped"; "physician authority"; "family …
Feeling Good and Doing Better
Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use
Av Thomas H. Murray, Willard Gaylin m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
550 kr
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The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to evoke diatribe than dialog. With the support of the Na tional Science Foundation's program on Ethics and Values in Science and Technology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities' program on Science, Technology, and Human …
Ethics of Sports Technologies and Human Enhancement
Av Thomas H. Murray, Voo Teck Chuan
Inbunden, 2016
4611 kr
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This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport. The collection considers whether drug doping should be banned; the rationale of not banning ethically contested innovations such as hypoxic chambers; and the implications of the …
Adventures of Nuno and Figo
An Illustrated Journey of Two Unlikely Friends
Häftad, 2020
175 kr
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Memories of a Lost World
Adventures Far Off the Beaten Path in the 1980's and 1990's Volume One
Häftad, 2026
197 kr
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Genetic Ties and the Family
The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children
Av Mark A. Rothstein, Thomas H. Murray m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
571 kr
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Genetic Ties and the Family brings together experts in history, law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, social work, and sociology to explore the tension between biological and social conceptions of parentage. The contributors consider the effect of DNA-based paternity testing on family relationships …
Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening
New Technologies, New Challenges
Av Mary Ann Baily, Thomas H. Murray
Inbunden, 2009
551 kr
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The United States has the first and the farthest-reaching newborn genetic screening program in the world. In recent years, individual states have expanded their newborn screening programs to include many more genetic conditions, as new medical knowledge and new testing technologies have become …
Trust and Integrity in Biomedical Research
The Case of Financial Conflicts of Interest
Av Thomas H. Murray, Josephine Johnston
Inbunden, 2010
537 kr
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News of financial entanglements among biomedical companies and researchers has increasingly called into question the worth and integrity of medical studies, nearly three-fifths of which are funded by industry. This volume assesses the ethical, quantitative, and qualitative questions posed by the …
