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Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Av John W. Davis, Barry Hoffmaster m. fl.
Inbunden, 1979
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Not long ago, a colleague chided me for using the term "the biological revolution. " Like many others, I have employed it as an umbrella term to refer to the seemingly vast, rapidly-moving, and fre quently bewildering developments of contemporary biomedicine: psy chosurgery, genetic counseling …
Birth Control and Controlling Birth
Women-Centered Perspectives
Av Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins m. fl.
Inbunden, 1981
1130 kr
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Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss Itthem ": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the objects …
Birth Control and Controlling Birth
Women-Centered Perspectives
Av Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
1130 kr
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Women have been the objects of scientific and ethical discussions about reproductive freedom and its control for over a century. And they have increasingly endured experiments on their bodies involving ever more powerful technologies, technologies that until now have been largely generated and …
Custom-Made Child?
Women-Centered Perspectives
Av Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins m. fl.
Inbunden, 1981
1130 kr
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Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss "them": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the objects …
Custom-Made Child?
Women-Centered Perspectives
Av Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
1130 kr
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Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss "them": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the objects …
Medical Genetics Casebook
A Clinical Introduction to Medical Ethics Systems Theory
Inbunden, 1982
1130 kr
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The Direction of Medical Ethics The direction bioethics, and specifically medical ethics, will take in the next few years will be crucial. It is an emerging specialty that has attempted a great deal, that has many differing agendas, and that has its own identity crisis. Is it a subspecialty of …
Who Decides?
Conflicts of Rights in Health Care
Av Nora K. Bell
Inbunden, 1982
569 kr
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Many of the demands being voiced for a "humanizing" of health care center on the public's concern that they have some say In determining what happens to the individual in health care institutions. The essays in this volume address fundamental questions of conflicts of rights and autonomy as they …
Ethics and Animals
Av Harlan B. Miller, William H. Williams
Inbunden, 1983
1098 kr
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This volume is a collection of essays concerned with the morality of hu man treatment of nonhuman animals. The contributors take very different approaches to their topics and come to widely divergent conclusions. The goal of the volume as a whole is to shed a brighter light upon an aspect of human …
Profits and Professions
Essays in Business and Professional Ethics
Av Wade L. Robison, Michael S. Pritchard m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
1098 kr
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Suppose an accountant discovers evidence of shady practices while ex amining the books of a client. What should he or she do? Accountants have a professional obligation to respect the confidentiality of their cli ents' accounts. But, as an ordinary citizen, our accountant may feel that the …
Visions of Women
Being a Fascinating Anthology with Analysis of Philosophers’ Views of Women from Ancient to Modern Times
Inbunden, 1983
1098 kr
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People of Socrates' time were frequently aghast at the questions he would ask. Their responses were of the sort elicited by very dumb or ex tremely obvious questions: "Don't you know? Everyone else does. " Socrates was hardly alone in his knack for asking such questions. Phi losophers have always …
Ethics and Animals
Av Harlan B. Miller, William H. Williams
Häftad, 1983
1130 kr
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This volume is a collection of essays concerned with the morality of hu man treatment of nonhuman animals. The contributors take very different approaches to their topics and come to widely divergent conclusions. The goal of the volume as a whole is to shed a brighter light upon an aspect of human …
Visions of Women
Being a Fascinating Anthology with Analysis of Philosophers’ Views of Women from Ancient to Modern Times
Häftad, 1983
1098 kr
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People of Socrates' time were frequently aghast at the questions he would ask. Their responses were of the sort elicited by very dumb or ex tremely obvious questions: "Don't you know? Everyone else does. " Socrates was hardly alone in his knack for asking such questions. Phi losophers have always …
Feeling Good and Doing Better
Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use
Av Thomas H. Murray, Willard Gaylin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1984
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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 …
Alzheimer’s Dementia
Dilemmas in Clinical Research
Av Vijaya L. Melnick, Nancy N. Dubler
Inbunden, 1985
1692 kr
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The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has historically been concerned with the protection of human subjects. In July 1977, the NIA sponsored a meeting to update and supplement guide lines for protecting those participating in Federal research pro jects. Although the basic guidelines had been in …
Which Babies Shall Live?
Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns
Av Thomas H. Murray, Arthur L. Caplan
Inbunden, 1985
569 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 …
Advocacy in Health Care
The Power of a Silent Constituency
Inbunden, 1986
1130 kr
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The roles of both the consumer and the health advocate professional have become increasingly significant in to day's climate of "rationed" health care. It seems clear that the timely exchange of ideas among seasoned health care advocates is necessary if we are to deal with the complex problems of …
What Is a Person?
Inbunden, 1988
1098 kr
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The idea for an anthology on personhood grew out of two things, viz. , the work I did with Martin Benjamin during the Summer of 1982 at Michigan State University on the question, What is a person?, and the amount of time, effort, and expense required for serious research on the topic itself. The …
Judging Medicine
Inbunden, 1988
1130 kr
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In the early 1970s, well before the field ofbioethics had established itself in medicine or anywhere else, the Hastings Center organized a small meeting of law school professors. The question we put to them was: what could or should be done to stimulate legal interest in the field? The answer we …
Clinical Ethics
Theory and Practice
Av Barry Hoffmaster, Benjamin Freedom m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
1130 kr
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There is the world of ideas and the world of practice; the French are often for sup pressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed. -Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time From its inception, bioethics has confronted the need to reconcile theory …
Reproductive Laws for the 1990s
Av Sherrill Cohen, Nadine Taub
Inbunden, 1988
1130 kr
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The Project on Reproductive Laws for the 1990s began in 1985 with the realization that reports of scientific developments and new technologies were stimulating debates and discussions among bioethicists and policymakers, and that women had little part in those discussions either as participants or …
Beyond Baby M
Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques
Av Dianne M. Bartels, Reinhard Priester m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1130 kr
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Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out stripped our morality. Yet, as the essays in this volume make clear, that is not an accurate assessment of the situ ation. Medical technology has not overwhelmed our moral …
Reproductive Laws for the 1990s
Av Sherrill Cohen, Nadine Taub
Häftad, 1988
569 kr
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The Project on Reproductive Laws for the 1990s began in 1985 with the realization that reports of scientific developments and new technologies were stimulating debates and discussions among bioethicists and policymakers, and that women had little part in those discussions either as participants or …
Trace Elements, Micronutrients, and Free Radicals
Inbunden, 1991
1692 kr
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Itisonlyrecently thatthe naturaloccurrenceoffree radicalsin biological tissue has become widely accepted, and that the suspi- cion with which biologists previously viewed the free radicals of radiationchemistryhas beenplacedin a broaderperspective. Now, oxygen-derived free radicals are considered …
Judging Medicine
Häftad, 1988
569 kr
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In the early 1970s, well before the field ofbioethics had established itself in medicine or anywhere else, the Hastings Center organized a small meeting of law school professors. The question we put to them was: what could or should be done to stimulate legal interest in the field? The answer we …
New Harvest
Transplanting Body Parts and Reaping the Benefits
Av C. Don Keyes, Walter E. Wisest
Inbunden, 1991
1130 kr
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New Harvest includes contributions from specialists in medical, philosophical, psychological, religious, and legal fields. These essays are not simply a collection, but were developed from a single conception of the four ethical concerns of trans plan tation described in the first chapter. The indi …
Aging And Ethics
Philosophical Problems in Gerontology
Inbunden, 1991
1130 kr
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The Aging Self and the Aging Society Ethical issues involving the elderly have recently come to the fore. This should come as no surprise: Since the turn of the century, there has been an eightfold in crease in the number of Americans over the age of sixty five, and almost a tripling of their …
Compelled Compassion
Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns
Av Arthur L. Caplan, Robert H. Blank m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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How much control do-or should-the courts and public policy have over the treatment of critically ill and disabled newborns? The Baby Doe incident of 1982 spurred the federal government to create a public policy making failure to treat severely disabled newborns a form of child neglect. Compelled …
Aging And Ethics
Philosophical Problems in Gerontology
Häftad, 1991
1130 kr
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The Aging Self and the Aging Society Ethical issues involving the elderly have recently come to the fore. This should come as no surprise: Since the turn of the century, there has been an eightfold in crease in the number of Americans over the age of sixty five, and almost a tripling of their …
Health Care Ethics Consultant
Av Francoise C. Baylis, Francoise Baylis
Inbunden, 1994
1130 kr
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The primary objective of The Health Care Ethics Con sultant is to focus attention on an immediate practical problem: the role and responsibilities, the education and training, and the certification and accreditation of health care ethics consultants. The principal questions addressed in this book …
Profits and Professions
Essays in Business and Professional Ethics
Av Wade L. Robison, Michael S. Pritchard m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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Suppose an accountant discovers evidence of shady practices while ex amining the books of a client. What should he or she do? Accountants have a professional obligation to respect the confidentiality of their cli ents' accounts. But, as an ordinary citizen, our accountant may feel that the …
