Bio-ethics

Brain organoids are small stem cell-derived, self-organizing models of specific brain regions that offer researchers new ways to study the human br...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

Over the past several decades, new scientific tools and approaches for detecting microbial species have dramatically enhanced our appreciation of t...

When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on ma...

Individually and collectively, resident microbes play important roles in host health and survival. Shaping and shaped by their host environments, t...

Never before have the scope and limits of scientific freedom been more important or more under attack. New science, from artificial intelligence to...

Of the 121,000 people on donor lists in the U.S., over 100,000 need kidney transplants and thousands die each year while waiting. Bioprinting aspir...

There is growing recognition of the value dimension in psychiatric practice, from the contributions of positive psychology, of documenting the role...

Die Entwicklung von Ethikkomitees und Ethikberatung ist derzeit ein sehr dynamischer Prozess, wodurch sich ein immer dichter werdendes Netz an Grem...

This book provides a critical and innovative reassessment of contemporary debate on the human-animal relationship. Starting with a critique of the ...

This book analyzes the challenges and ethical dilemmas military physicians and nurses experienced while deployed on military operationsand how they...

This book provides an ethical analysis of the ethical issues that arise in the design, nature and use of AIs as they are currently used in the deli...

This book focuses on the implications of the common themes and works on three urgent tasks for bioethicists. Are there common themes between transh...

Applied ethics is an essential part of practical knowledge in pluralistic and democratic societies. Its fundamental characteristic does not consist...

When trust breaks down, how do we begin to fix it?Set against the controversial history of genetic research into autism, from the Spectrum 10k stud...

It has traditionally been accepted that one cannot derive how the world ought to be from the way the world is. The discipline of bioethics endeavor...

Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats collects critical examinations of the politics, positionalit...

In this volume, the concept of medical neutrality, which states that medical services should not be interfered with during armed conflicts and othe...

Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together crit...

Everyone has a view about animal ethics. Each of us, for example, has an opinion about whether we should eat meat; whether animals should be used f...

Delve into the intriguing world of medical ethics in this unique guidebook, where each ethical dilemma is introduced through a gripping moral myste...