Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, 2015. — 273 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-18427-2. Contemporary Bioethics: Islamic Perspective, by Dr. Mohammed Ali Al-Bar and Dr. Hassan Chamsi-Pasha, is a timely contribution in the field of Islamic bioethics. The book is authored by two prominent practitioners of medicine in Saudi Arabia with an impressive knowledge of Islamic...
Washington: Alliance Defending Freedom, 2022. - 6 p. English. A brief guide to help you easily dispel some of the most common myths about abortion in conversations with friends and family. You can use this to be ready to speak the truth and defend the right to life.
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 249 p. — ISBN10: 019066598X, ISBN13: 978-0190665982. This volume collects essays by the late bioethicist John D. Arras, best known for his many contributions to the methodology of bioethics. Always open-minded, Arras did not favor a single theory or view of method in bioethics, eschewing labels such as "casuist" or "pragmatist." He was...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 195 p. — ISBN: 9781107120891. Speaking from and to the growing movement among academics to become involved with 'socially-engaged' work, this volume presents first-person case studies of attempts to fix serious ethical problems in medical practice and research. It highlights the critical difference between the pundit approach to bioethics and...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 982 p. — (Oxford handbooks). — ISBN: 9780199351978, 019935197X. Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume. Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds and vegetarianism, but only...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 368 p. David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. Critically examining a wide range of arguments that attempt to prove that every human fetus has a right to life, he shows that each of these arguments fails on its own terms. He then explains how even if the fetus does...
New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2010. — 194 p. My goal in writing this book has been to provide the background to promote informed discussion. Like other animal welfare debates, constructively arguing about fish welfare requires that we understand the issues, that we review evidence and discuss this appropriately. In the book, I examine what we know so far about pain in...
2nd edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 355 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-08015-2 This book offers complete information about all aspects of bioethics and its role in our world. It tackles the concerns of bioethicists, dealing with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy. The book introduces the...
Routledge, 2013. — 201 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-50409-6. Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include:...
Springer, 2019. — 511 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-03543-3 This unique textbook utilizes an integrated, case-based approach to explore how the domains of bioethics, public health and the social sciences impact individual patients and populations. It provides a structured framework suitable for both educators (including course directors and others engaged in curricular design) and for...
Springer, 2014. — 258 p. This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general and bioethics/healthcare ethics specifically, is much more expansive and inclusive than is usually thought. Bioethics is a relatively new academic...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 314 p. When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: What are the criteria for a person’s continuing existence? When nonphilosophers address personal identity, they often have in mind narrative identity: Which characteristics of a particular person are especially salient to her self-conception? This...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 338 p. An Expanded Theory of Animal Rights Universal Basic Rights for Animals Extending Animal Rights via Citizenship Theory Applications Domesticated Animals within Animal Rights Theory Domesticated Animal Citizens Wild Animal Sovereignty Liminal Animal Denizens
Springer, 2018. — 428 p. — ISBN10: 9402412859, ISBN13: 978-9402412857. This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role. It is the first encompassing collection of articles on the metaphysics of potentials and potentiality. Potentials play an...
Springer, 2018. — 474 p. — ISBN10: 9402412859, ISBN13: 978-9402412857. This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role. It is the first encompassing collection of articles on the metaphysics of potentials and potentiality. Potentials play an...
New York: Springer, 2013. — 125 p. Over the last few decades, there are increasing public awareness of adverse events involving engineering failures that not only led to monetary losses but also more importantly, human injuries and deaths. Whilst it is vital for an engineering professional or student to acquire the necessary technical knowledge and skills in their respective...
Profile Books, 2014. — 333 p. In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that crosses the globe and history, exploring questions that range from the curious to the profound: What happens to people's teeth as...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 246 p. Our ability to map and intervene in the structure of the human brain is proceeding at a very quick rate. Advances in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery have given us fresh insights into the neurobiological basis of human thought and behavior. Technologies like MRI and PET scans can detect early signs of psychiatric disorders...
Berlin: Springer, 2015. — 335 p. — ISBN10: 3319210874; ISBN13: 978-3319210872. "Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases...
Duke University Press Books, 2018. — 265 p. — (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe). — ISBN10: 0822370417, ISBN13: 978-0822370413. What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 693 p. — ISBN10: 0198786832, ISBN13: 978-0198786832. Over the last decade, there have been unparalleled advances in our understanding of brain sciences. But with the development of tools that can manipulate brain function, there are pressing ethical implications to this newfound knowledge of how the brain works. In Neuroethics: Anticipating the...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 282 p. — (Cambridge Bioethics and Law). — ISBN: 1107435501, 9781107435506. Bioethics has long been accepted as an interdisciplinary field. The recent 'empirical turn' in bioethics is, however, creating challenges that move beyond those of simple interdisciplinary collaboration, as researchers grapple with the methodological, empirical and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0190695811; ISBN13: 978-0190695811 When Harambe, a now-famous gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo,was shot for endangering a small child, animal rights activists protested, calling into question moral reasoning that privileges the possibility of injury to a human over definite violence to an animal. Many others, though less...
Routledge, 2018. — 237 p. — (Routledge Research in the Ethics of Tourism Series). — ISBN10: 1138291617, 13 978-1138291614. This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism. It focuses on a range of ethical issues associated with the production and consumption of animal foods, highlighting the different ways in which...
3rd Ed. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 800 p. — (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies). — ISBN10: 1118941500. — ISBN13: 978-1118941508 Now fully revised and updated, Bioethics: An Anthology, 3rd edition, contains a wealth of new material reflecting the latest developments. This definitive text brings together writings on an unparalleled range of key ethical issues, compellingly...
Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2008. — 154 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4020-6205-6. Veikko Launis Introduction: The Scope and Importance of Genetic Democracy. Helena Siipi The Prerequisites for Genetic Democracy. Eerik Lagerspetz Ethical Expertise in Democratic Societies. Henk ten Have Towards Global Bioethics: The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. Juha...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 235 p. Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens, a leading expert in the field, teases out these biological foundations of bioethical...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. — 440 p. — (Series: Basic bioethics). — ISBN: 026203610X. Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in research using human biospecimens. Advances in medicine often depend on the effective collection, storage, research use, and sharing of human biological specimens and associated data....
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 228 p. Informed consent is a central topic in contemporary biomedical ethics. Yet attempts to set defensible and feasible standards for consenting have led to persistent difficulties. In Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics, Neil Manson and Onora O’Neill set debates about informed consent in medicine and research in a fresh light. They...
London: Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2002. — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-1904384038. Council membership and terms of reference Working Party membership Working Party terms of reference Summary and recommendations Introduction and context Why this Working Party is important Defining the normal range of behavioural characteristics The scope of research in behavioural genetics The...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 386 p. Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears, and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bioethicists that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics. It wrestles with the charge that bioethics as a discipline...
3rd Ed. — Macmillan Reference USA, 2003. — 3129 p. — ISBN10: 0028657748, 13 978-0028657745. Presents a collection of articles about bioethics, covering such topics as embryonic stem cell research, cybernetics, cloning, and bioterrorism.
Beacon Press, 2018. — 196 p. — ISBN10: 0807019453, 13 978-0807019450. A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing realities of factory...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 353 p. — ISBN10: 3319555316, 13 978-3319555317. This book departs from conventional bioethics approaches to consider the different moral and political economies involved in the donation and transformation of human organs, gametes, stem cells and breastmilk. Collectively, the authors draw attention to the different values associated with research and...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 538 p. Medicine and healthcare generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, researchers, bioethicists, and students seeking a better understanding of the ethical problems in...
Palgrave Macmillan, New York. 2015. — 210 p. — ISBN 978–1–137–51474–5. Permissions Andrew Byers and Patricia Stapleton Actions American Bodies in a Time of War: The Militarized Body as a Utopian Space and Biopolitical Project for the State Andrew Byers “Abnormals” or “Exceptions”: The Use of Technologies for Intersex People and People with Disabilities Arpita Das The...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 750 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN10: 0199562415, ISBN13: 978-0199562411. Bonnie Steinbock presents The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics - an authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics. Thirty-four contributors reflect the interdisciplinarity that is characteristic of bioethics, and its increasingly international...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 478 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88833-2 This accessible introduction clearly explains philosophical concepts to science students, enabling them to discuss current ethical and social issues in biotechnology with confidence.Marianne Talbot is a skilled communicator of philosophical concepts to non-philosophers, her informal style and the 250+...
Springer Netherlands, 2013. — 1685 p. As the first of its kind, this handbook presents state-of-the-art information and analysis concerning the state of affairs in bioethics in around 40 countries. The country reports point out the most important discussions as well as the emerging topics in the field. Readers can orientate themselves quickly with regard to the various relevant...
Springer, 2016. — 3054 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-09484-7. This work presents the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of all relevant issues and topics in contemporary global bioethics. Now that bioethics has entered into a novel global phase, a wider set of issues, problems and principles is emerging against the backdrop of globalization and in the context of global...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 177 p. — (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series). — ISBN10: 1137586842 ISBN13: 978-1137586841. This book presents a radical and intuitive argument against the notion that intentional action, agency and autonomy are features belonging only to humans. Using evidence from research into the minds of non-human animals, it explores the ways...
Earthscan, 2010. — 222 p. In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal sciences, which aims to increase the efficiency and...
4th Edition. — Taylor & Francis, 2020. — 325 p. — ISBN 978- 1- 138- 58007- 7. The Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition offers an easy-to-follow introduction to this dynamic field, intended for healthcare professionals, teachers, students, and anyone interested in bioethics. Accessible and enjoyable for readers of all backgrounds, the book contains numerous cases — including ones...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 205 p. — ISBN10: 1137586575, ISBN13: 978-1137586575. This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy - the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model,...
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