Bio-ethics books

The goal of this book is to propose an alternative approach to address the problem of the exponential rise of health...  Read More >>

It criticizes moral theories that overstate the extent of the problem of pluralism as well as those that imply too...  Read More >>

This book develops a novel justificatory framework for making judgments of decisional competence to consent to biomedical...  Read More >>

Context awareness, of course, is not foreign to philosophical or theological bioethics, for the simple reason that...  Read More >>

This volume introduces a new subseries of Philosophy and Medicine, Classics of Medical Ethics. Each volume will...  Read More >>

The result of Wright’s alternative view of mind and medical judgment is a practically useful model of medical reasoning...  Read More >>

Today, health, health care (business, wellness, recreation), and medicine (especially research-driven scientific...  Read More >>

Second, a crucial missing element of those discussions has been the failure to reflect explicitly on the diverse...  Read More >>

Within contemporary society, globalization has emerged as a key concern at the centre of ethical, legal and policy...  Read More >>

Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews.  Read More >>

Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and...  Read More >>

Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal...  Read More >>

By way of contrast, the last five articles in the text are critical of duty-to-die claims: The authors of the first...  Read More >>

This makes health insurance a virtual necessity for adequate medical care, and people worry that they will be denied...  Read More >>

"Among the issues considered are whether stem cell research treats embryos as ""commodities,"" violates the rights...  Read More >>

Deals with the moral issues associated with the treatment and care of the elderly and offers proposals for solving...  Read More >>

Is the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill morally proper? Objective and readily understandable, Mental Illness...  Read More >>

“Genetic Democracy” involves an in-depth analysis of the ethical, social and philosophical issues related to modern...  Read More >>

While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope’s claim that the life of all human beings, even those in a persistent...  Read More >>

An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans. Taking as a starting point the idea that to...  Read More >>

McKenny In this second volume of the “Altering Nature” project, we situate specific religious and policy discussions...  Read More >>

Producing and rearing children are immensely important human activities. This collection offers new and original...  Read More >>

This book challenges the unchallenged methods in medicine, such as ""evidence-based medicine,"" which claim to be,...  Read More >>

Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University’s...  Read More >>

and the role of natural law and the natural law tradition in bioethics: Boyle’s arguments have been grounded in...  Read More >>