Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics – serie
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Antinatalism, Extinction, and the End of Procreative Self-Corruption
Av Matti Häyry, Amanda Sukenick
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element provides an exploration of antinatalism, the view that assigns a negative value to reproduction. First, the history of Western philosophy as a two-and-a-half millennia reaction to antinatalist sentiments. Human life has no obvious meaning and philosophers have been forced to build …
Pathographies of Mental Illness
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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This Element is a survey of the field of pathographies of mental illness. It explores classic texts in the field as well as other selected contemporary memoirs. In doing so, the reader is introduced to psychiatric information about various mental illnesses through a narrative lens, emphasizing …
Conscientious Objection in Medicine
Häftad, 2024
278 kr
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The Element examines ethical and conceptual issues about conscientious objection in medicine. Concepts analyzed include conscientious objection, conscientious provision, conscience, moral complicity, and moral integrity. Several ongoing ethical controversies are identified and critically analyzed. …
The Methods of Neuroethics
Av Luca Malatesti, John McMillan
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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This Element offers a framework for exploring the methodological challenges of neuroethics. The aim is to provide a roadmap for the methodological assumptions, and related pitfalls, involved in the interdisciplinary investigation of the ethical and legal implications of neuroscientific research and …
The Ethics of Consciousness
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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This Element examines the main ethical aspects of consciousness It argues that consciousness is not intrinsically valuable but has value or disvalue for individuals depending on its phenomenology (what it is like to be aware) and content (what one is aware of). These two components of awareness …
Bioethics, Public Reason, and Religion
The Liberalism Problem
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Can religious arguments provide a reasonable, justified basis for restrictive (coercive) public policies regarding numerous ethically and politically controversial medical interventions, such as research with human embryos, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or using artificial wombs? With Rawls, …
Euthanasia as Privileged Compassion
Häftad, 2024
291 kr
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This Element overviews developments and issues in Dutch euthanasia practice. Following an outline of the history of the Dutch Euthanasia Act and a survey of the most critical trends and figures, some current issues are explored in depth: euthanasia and incompetency, euthanasia by nonphysicians, and …
What Placebos Teach Us about Health and Care
A Philosopher Pops a Pill
Av Dien Ho
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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Placebo effects raise some fundamental questions concerning the nature of clinical and medical research. This Element begins with an overview of the different roles placebos play, followed by a survey of significant studies and dominant views about placebo mechanisms. It then critically examines …
Roles of Justice in Bioethics
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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This Element traces the origins and development of bioethics, the principles and values involved in the discipline, and the roles of justice among these principles and values. The main tasks given to the concept of justice have since the late 1970s been nondiscrimination in research, prioritization …
Responsibility for Health
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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This Element offers a broad perspective on responsibility for health. This includes responsibilities in the prevention of disease and accidents, and in the creation of healthcare for all. The professional responsibilities of physicians and nurses are explored, and so are the responsibilities that …
One Health Environmentalism
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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One Health emerges from the contingent scientific, social, and political realities of environmentalism. The concept mixes the land, sea, and sky with geopolitics on the global stages of the United Nations and World Health Organization. It inspires new investment in conservation and public health, …
Controlling Love
The Ethics and Desirability of Using 'Love Drugs'
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Recent research in neurochemistry has shown there to be a number of chemical compounds that are implicated in the patterns of lust, attraction, and attachment that undergird romantic love. For example, there is evidence that the phenomenon of attachment is associated with the action of oxytocin and …
Immune Ethics
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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The immune system maintains homeostasis within human organisms and protects them from pathogenic threats. But sometimes it cannot provide this protection on its own, and vaccines may be necessary to ensure our health and survival. Immune functions can become dysregulated and result in autoimmune …
Philosophical, Medical, and Legal Controversies About Brain Death
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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This Element considers current legal, ethical, metaphysical, and medical controversies concerning brain death. It examines the implicit metaphysical and moral commitments and dualism implied by neurological criteria for death. When these commitments and worldview are not shared by patients and …
Pure Cloning
Av Tuija Takala, Matti Häyry
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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This Element explores the rationality and morality of the kind of human reproductive cloning that does not involve genetic enhancements or other biological alterations in the individuals produced. The analysis is needed because, sooner or later, the technique will be safe enough to be tested; yet …
Art and Artificial Intelligence
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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The overriding question discussed in this Element can be stated simply as: can computers create art? This Element presents an overview of the controversies raised by various answers to this question. A major difficulty is that the technology is developing rapidly, and there are still many …
What Placebos Teach Us about Health and Care
A Philosopher Pops a Pill
Av Dien Ho
Inbunden, 2023
918 kr
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Placebo effects raise some fundamental questions concerning the nature of clinical and medical research. This Element begins with an overview of the different roles placebos play, followed by a survey of significant studies and dominant views about placebo mechanisms. It then critically examines …
Antinatalism, Extinction, and the End of Procreative Self-Corruption
Av Matti Häyry, Amanda Sukenick
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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This Element provides an exploration of antinatalism, the view that assigns a negative value to reproduction. First, the history of Western philosophy as a two-and-a-half millennia reaction to antinatalist sentiments. Human life has no obvious meaning and philosophers have been forced to build …
The Methods of Neuroethics
Av Luca Malatesti, John McMillan
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element offers a framework for exploring the methodological challenges of neuroethics. The aim is to provide a roadmap for the methodological assumptions, and related pitfalls, involved in the interdisciplinary investigation of the ethical and legal implications of neuroscientific research and …
Philosophical, Medical, and Legal Controversies About Brain Death
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element considers current legal, ethical, metaphysical, and medical controversies concerning brain death. It examines the implicit metaphysical and moral commitments and dualism implied by neurological criteria for death. When these commitments and worldview are not shared by patients and …
Euthanasia as Privileged Compassion
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element overviews developments and issues in Dutch euthanasia practice. Following an outline of the history of the Dutch Euthanasia Act and a survey of the most critical trends and figures, some current issues are explored in depth: euthanasia and incompetency, euthanasia by nonphysicians, and …
The Three Pillars of Ethical Research with Nonhuman Primates
A Work Developed in Collaboration with the National Anti-Vivisection Society
Av L. Syd M Johnson, Andrew Fenton m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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The Three Pillars (Harmonization, Replacement, and Justice) describe an ethical path forward and away from the use of nonhuman primates in harmful research and scientific use. Conducting nonhuman primate research in an ethical way that acknowledges their moral importance requires satisfying more …
The Three Pillars of Ethical Research with Nonhuman Primates
A Work Developed in Collaboration with the National Anti-Vivisection Society
Av L. Syd M Johnson, Andrew Fenton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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The Three Pillars (Harmonization, Replacement, and Justice) describe an ethical path forward and away from the use of nonhuman primates in harmful research and scientific use. Conducting nonhuman primate research in an ethical way that acknowledges their moral importance requires satisfying more …
Conscientious Objection in Medicine
Inbunden, 2024
820 kr
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The Element examines ethical and conceptual issues about conscientious objection in medicine. Concepts analyzed include conscientious objection, conscientious provision, conscience, moral complicity, and moral integrity. Several ongoing ethical controversies are identified and critically analyzed. …
The Artificial Womb on Trial
Av Teresa Baron
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Artificial womb technology is approaching over the scientific horizon. Recent proof-of-principle experiments using foetal animals have prompted a new surge of bioethical interest in the topic: scholars have asked what ectogenesis would mean for individuals, family, oppressed groups, and society at …
The Artificial Womb on Trial
Av Teresa Baron
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Artificial womb technology is approaching over the scientific horizon. Recent proof-of-principle experiments using foetal animals have prompted a new surge of bioethical interest in the topic: scholars have asked what ectogenesis would mean for individuals, family, oppressed groups, and society at …
Art and Artificial Intelligence
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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The overriding question discussed in this Element can be stated simply as: can computers create art? This Element presents an overview of the controversies raised by various answers to this question. A major difficulty is that the technology is developing rapidly, and there are still many …
One Health Environmentalism
Inbunden, 2024
918 kr
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One Health emerges from the contingent scientific, social, and political realities of environmentalism. The concept mixes the land, sea, and sky with geopolitics on the global stages of the United Nations and World Health Organization. It inspires new investment in conservation and public health, …
Capacity, Informed Consent and Third-Party Decision-Making
Häftad, 2024
278 kr
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This Element examines three related topics in the field of bioethics that arise frequently both in clinical care and in medico-legal settings: capacity, informed consent, and third-party decision-making. All three of these subjects have been shaped significantly by the shift from the paternalistic …
Capacity, Informed Consent and Third-Party Decision-Making
Inbunden, 2024
838 kr
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This Element examines three related topics in the field of bioethics that arise frequently both in clinical care and in medico-legal settings: capacity, informed consent, and third-party decision-making. All three of these subjects have been shaped significantly by the shift from the paternalistic …
