Issues in Biomedical Ethics – serie
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29 produkter
Children and Gender
Ethical issues in clinical management of transgender and gender diverse youth, from early years to late adolescence
Inbunden, 2023
1148 kr
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Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. From the time young children express gender incongruent preferences and attitudes, up to the time in which older adolescents might apply for …
Social Justice
The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy
Häftad, 2008
667 kr
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In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which …
Moral Status
Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things
Inbunden, 1997
1683 kr
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Mary Anne Warren explores a theoretical question which lies at the heart of practical ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being an entity towards which people have moral obligations? Some philosophers maintain that there is one intrinsic …
The Future of Human Reproduction
Ethics, Choice, and Regulation
Inbunden, 1998
1865 kr
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ISSUES IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS General Editors: John Harris, University of Manchester; Søren Holm, University of Copenhagen. Consulting Editor: Ranaan Gillon, Director, Imperial College Health Service, London. North American Consulting Editor: Bonnie Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY, Albany. …
Children, Families, and Health Care Decision-Making
Inbunden, 1998
2989 kr
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ISSUES IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS General Editors: John Harris, University of Manchester; S(ren Holm, University of Copenhagen. Consulting Editor: Ranaan Gillon, Director, Imperial College Health Service, London. North American Consulting Editor: Bonnie Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY, Albany. …
HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality
Av Rebecca Bennett, Charles A. Erin
Inbunden, 1999
1261 kr
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ISSUES IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS General Editors: John Harris, University of Manchester; S(ren Holm, University of Copenhagen. Consulting Editor: Ranaan Gillon, Director, Imperial College Health Service, London. North American Consulting Editor: Bonnie Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY, Albany. …
Moral Status
Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things
Häftad, 2000
1206 kr
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Mary Anne Warren explores a theoretical question which lies at the heart of practical ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being an entity towards which people have moral obligations? Some philosophers maintain that there is one intrinsic …
The Future of Human Reproduction
Ethics, Choice, and Regulation
Av Harris, John Harris m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
978 kr
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The Future of Human Reproduction brings together new work, by an international group of contributors from various fields and perspectives, on ethical, social, and legal issues raised by recent advances in reproductive technology. These advances have put us in a position to choose what kinds of …
Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs
Häftad, 2015
463 kr
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Transplantation is a medically successful and cost-effective way to treat people whose organs have failed--but not enough organs are available to meet demand. Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs is concerned with the major ethical problems raised by policies for acquiring organs. The main topics …
Family-Making
Contemporary Ethical Challenges
Av Françoise Baylis, Carolyn McLeod
Häftad, 2017
563 kr
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This volume explores the ethics of making or expanding families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. For many people, these methods are separate and distinct: they can choose either adoption or assisted reproduction. But for others, these options blend together. For example, …
Children in Medical Research
Access versus Protection
Häftad, 2008
960 kr
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Lainie Ross presents a rigorous critical investigation of the development of policy governing the involvement of children in medical research. She examines the shift in focus from protection of medical research subjects, enshrined in post-World War II legislation, to the current era in which access …
Health and the Good Society
Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context
Av Alan Cribb
Häftad, 2008
1025 kr
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The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy. Health and the Good Society is the first …
Understanding Eating Disorders
Conceptual and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
Häftad, 2007
960 kr
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Simona Giordano presents the first full philosophical study of ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Beginning with a comprehensive analysis of these conditions and an exploration of their complex causes, she then proceeds to address legal and ethical dilemmas such as a …
Reproductive Health and Human Rights
Integrating Medicine, Ethics, and Law
Av Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
3589 kr
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The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving health care provision and legal protection for women around the world. This is an authoritative and much-needed introduction to and defence of the concept of reproductive health, which though internationally endorsed, …
Reproductive Health and Human Rights
Integrating Medicine, Ethics, and Law
Av Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
976 kr
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The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving women's health and rights around the world. It was internationally endorsed by a United Nations conference in 1994, but remains controversial because of the challenge it presents to conservative agencies: it challenges …
Health and the Good Society
Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context
Av Alan Cribb
Inbunden, 2005
1096 kr
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The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy. Health and the Good Society is the first …
HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality
Av Rebecca Bennett, Charles A. Erin
Häftad, 2001
876 kr
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The series:General Editors: John Harris, University of Manchester; Soren Holm, University of Manchester.Consulting Editor: Ranaan Gillon, Director, Imperial College Health Service, London.North American Consulting Editor: Bonnie Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY, Albany.The late twentieth …
Children, Families, and Health Care Decision-Making
Häftad, 2002
869 kr
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ISSUES IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICSGeneral Editors: John Harris, University of Manchester; Soren Holm, University of Manchester.Consulting Editor: Ranaan Gillon, Director, Imperial College Health Service, London.North American Consulting Editor: Bonnie Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY, Albany.The …
Understanding Eating Disorders
Conceptual and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
Inbunden, 2005
2490 kr
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Simona Giordano presents the first full philosophical study of ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Beginning with a comprehensive analysis of these conditions and an exploration of their complex causes, she then proceeds to address legal and ethical dilemmas such as a …
Children in Medical Research
Access versus Protection
Inbunden, 2006
1738 kr
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Lainie Ross presents a rigorous critical investigation of the development of policy governing the involvement of children in medical research. She examines the shift in focus from protection of medical research subjects, enshrined in post-World War II legislation, to the current era in which access …
Choosing Tomorrow's Children
The Ethics of Selective Reproduction
Inbunden, 2010
1940 kr
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To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? And is there something morally wrong with parents who wish to do this? Choosing Tomorrow's Children provides answers to these (and related) questions. In particular, …
Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health
Av Angus Dawson, Marcel Verweij
Inbunden, 2007
1894 kr
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Public health is an important and fast-developing area of ethical discussion. In this volume a range of issues in public health ethics are explored using the resources of moral theory, political philosophy, philosophy of science, applied ethics, law, and economics.The twelve original papers …
Global Bioethics
Issues of Conscience for the Twenty-First Century
Av GREEN ET AL, Ronald M. Green m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2615 kr
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Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. Ethical questions that once arose only in the narrow context of the physician-patient relationship in relatively prosperous societies are now being raised across societies, cultures, and continents. For example, what should be the …
The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Inbunden, 2015
1034 kr
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Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research. However, the process through which embryonic stem cells are obtained involves the destruction of early human embryos. Katrien Devolder …
Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health
Av Angus Dawson, Marcel Verweij
Häftad, 2009
895 kr
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Public health is an important and fast-developing area of ethical discussion. In this volume a range of issues in public health ethics are explored using the resources of moral theory, political philosophy, philosophy of science, applied ethics, law, and economics. The twelve original papers …
The Methods of Bioethics
An Essay in Meta-Bioethics
Inbunden, 2018
1518 kr
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This is the first book in bioethics that explains how it is that you actually go about doing good bioethics. Bioethics has made a mistake about its methods, and this has led not only to too much theorizing, but also fragmentation within bioethics. The unhelpful disputes between those who think …
Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs
Inbunden, 2011
1248 kr
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Transplantation is a medically successful and cost-effective way to treat people whose organs have failed--but not enough organs are available to meet demand. Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs is concerned with the major ethical problems raised by policies for acquiring organs. The main topics …
Choosing Tomorrow's Children
The Ethics of Selective Reproduction
Häftad, 2012
715 kr
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To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? And is there something morally wrong with parents who wish to do this? Choosing Tomorrow's Children provides answers to these (and related) questions. In particular, …
Family-Making
Contemporary Ethical Challenges
Av Françoise Baylis, Carolyn McLeod
Inbunden, 2014
1576 kr
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This volume explores the ethics of making or expanding families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. For many people, these methods are separate and distinct: they can choose either adoption or assisted reproduction. But for others, these options blend together. For example, …
