Bio-ethics books

Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap­ plications for purposes of assessment...  Read More >>

The principle of respecting the free and informed consent of the person is clearly stressed. The issue of interventions...  Read More >>

Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume, while exploring bioethical issues bearing on death and dying, the use of scarce resources,...  Read More >>

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This volume has emerged from papers delivered at a conference on the History of Medical Ethics, held at the Wellcome...  Read More >>

Most notoriously, managed care organizations maintained veto authority over the provision of complex and expensive...  Read More >>

Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University...  Read More >>

Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political...  Read More >>

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT The Human Genome Project (HGP) is now almost completed. But even...  Read More >>

Presents the results of a temporary interdisciplinary project, ranging from a discussion of the theoretical and...  Read More >>

Adopting a philosophical approach, this work examines the ethics of capitalism, analyzing the moral theory of a...  Read More >>

Due to its theoretical and methodological framework, the present study provides evidence that the embodiment of...  Read More >>

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines examine some of the most emotive topics in the study of aging: assessing...  Read More >>

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines address some of the major issues in elder care facing modern nations:...  Read More >>

This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body....  Read More >>

The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community...  Read More >>

Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions,...  Read More >>

This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D. Pellegrino's thinking about the philosophy...  Read More >>

TERMINAL SEDATION DURING THE 1990s During the 1990s a discussion took place in scholarly journals concerning a measure...  Read More >>

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using...  Read More >>

In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the ""due date"" for world health.  Read More >>

Explores the legal, economic and political debate over intellectual property rights for traditional knowledge and...  Read More >>

Nanobiotechnology is the convergence of existing and new biotechnology with the 1 ability to manipulate matter at...  Read More >>

Presents a philosophical analysis of Brody's contributions to biomedical ethics. This title combines methodological,...  Read More >>