Values in Bioethics – serie
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Scratching the Surface of Bioethics
Av Matti Häyry
Häftad, 2003
823 kr
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Is bioethics only about medicine and health care? Law? Philosophy? Social issues? No, on all accounts. It embraces all these and more. In this book, fifteen notable scholars from the North West of England critically explore the main approaches to bioethics—and make a scratch on its polished surface.
Bioethics and Social Reality
Av Matti Häyry
Häftad, 2005
927 kr
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This book explores the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality. Bioethics, if it is to be effective, must engage with and address the actualities of modern life: policies, regulations, markets, opinions, and technological advances. In these original contributions fifteen …
Life, Death, and Subjectivity
Moral Sources in Bioethics
Häftad, 2004
1150 kr
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This book presents an exploration of concepts central to health care practice. In exploring such concepts as Subjectivity, Life, Personhood, and Death in deep philosophical terms, the book aims to draw out the ethical demands that arise when we encounter these phenomena, and also the moral …
Ectogenesis
Artificial Womb Technology and the Future of Human Reproduction
Häftad, 2006
949 kr
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This book raises many moral, legal, social, and political, questions related to possible development, in the near future, of an artificial womb for human use. Is ectogenesis ever morally permissible? If so, under what circumstances? Will ectogenesis enhance or diminish women's reproductive rights …
Ethics in Biomedical Research
International Perspectives
Av Matti Häyry
Häftad, 2007
1436 kr
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This book deals with the international assessment and regulation of biomedical research. In its chapters, some of the leading figures in today’s bioethics address questions centred on global development, scientific advances, and vulnerability.The series Values In Bioethics makes available original …
Cutting Through the Surface
Philosophical Approaches to Bioethics
Av Tuija Takala
Häftad, 2009
1429 kr
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This book examines the role of philosophy and philosophers in bioethics. Academics often see bioethical studies as too practical while decision makers tend to see them as too theoretical. The purpose of this collection of new essays by an international group of distinguished scholars is to explore …
Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics
Av Matti Häyry
Häftad, 2010
1698 kr
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Is there any justification for the common practice of allocating expensive medical resources to rescue a few from rare diseases, when those resources could be used to treat devastating diseases that affect the many? Does the use of Prozac and other anti-depressants make us inauthentic beings? Is it …
For Our Children
The Ethics of Animal Experimentation in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Häftad, 2010
1136 kr
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This book provides an overview of different ethical views on animal experimentation. Special attention is given to the production and experimental use of genetically modified animals. It proposes a middle course between those positions that are very critical and those very positive. This middle …
Justice for Older People
Av Harry Lesser
Häftad, 2012
1279 kr
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The authors of these papers vary in age, nationality and professional background. They share a belief that all too often older people are not treated justly or fairly, and also a belief that this is particularly true with regard to a proper respect for their dignity as people and a proper …
