Bio-ethics

The technological innovations that have made learning computers possible are being met with utopian hopes as well as apocalyptic apprehensions. Wil...

Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plantsand the pathogens they carryto travel more easily than ever before. The ease and speed of t...

During public health emergencies such as pandemic influenza outbreaks or terrorist attacks, effective vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and other medic...

To avoid any misunderstandings: this book is not about spiders as pets, but about those spiders that live in our houses and apartments as lodgers. ...

The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and pla...

This edited volume comprises twenty original essays in nursing ethics by an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers, and cl...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to articulate a 5-year strategic vision for international health security p...

This textbook untangles the complicated ethical dilemmas that arise during the day-to-day work of healthcare chaplaincy, and offers a sturdy but fl...

This book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the...

This book focuses exclusively on the welfare of goats, which have peculiar behavioral characteristics and needs, and distinct individual personalit...

This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive work ever published on all four tapir species worldwide, filling a gap in the scientif...

The first of its kind, Feminist Bioethics in Space discusses selected bioethical concerns that may arise as space exploration becomes more advanced...

This book provides a complete guide to all the aspects to consider during planning, establishing and managing ethically and efficiently research an...

With an ever-growing body of evidence on the links between different oppressions, never have the debates in Critical Animal Studies surrounding int...

The relentless march of technology has given rise to a host of ethical dilemmas, challenging established notions of privacy, human rights, and soci...

What will it mean for society if science enables us to choose a future child whose health, athletic ability or intelligence is predetermined? This ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas ...

Taking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-seven landmark arguments that have...

This book meaningfully reflects upon difficult, timely, and debated ethics questions relating to people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) and au...

This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companio...

In 2008 the youtube video documenting the emotional reunion between two men and Christian the Lion became a worldwide sensation. Key themes of the ...

In this comprehensive updated introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of e...

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related conceptslife, politics, and artby exploring the implications of Charles Darwins account...

This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction...

Contemporary medicine is Janus-faced. Evidence-based medicine is one face, emphasizing evidence, statistics, and method. Patient-centered care is t...

A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology.Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming incr...

Structured around the five most important schools within contemporary political theory: liberalism, utilitarianism, communitarianism, Marxism and f...

Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals a...

Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been. By law, they must be told about the risks and benefits of proposed tr...

Lochlann Jains debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between w...

Cyberthreats are among the most critical issues facing the world today. Cybersecurity Management draws on case studies to analyze cybercrime at the...

The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics provides a critical overview of the ethics of human subjects research within multiple disciplines and fields...

If our bodies could do more things, would our lives be better? Genome editing is a rapidly developing technology that can modify human genes. It ca...

The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green cri...

An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of ...

This book systematically traces the development, significance, and implications of female reproductive choice. Paramount is the right to safe termi...

Since the 1990s, deliberative democracy has been the focus of increased scholarly attention, as well as the locus of initiatives intended to direct...

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a natural law philosophical perspective. T...

Practicing Bioethics Law provides basic readings in the field of bioethics law, including court cases, statutes, administrative regulations, briefs...

Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics uses a variety of legal and interdisciplinary materials to engage students in the study of the intersection o...