Bio-ethics

Bioethical issues are practically urgent, politically divisive, and call for resolutions. They often involve questions that are perplexing, deep, a...

Public health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant difference to the lives we ...

Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern. Within philosophy, the E...

The first book devoted to the bioethics of the space-mission environment, The Bioethics of Space Exploration explores the ethical status of possibl...

Healthcare providers are constantly confronted with illness and injury, and the challenges of healing. Yet this very work, the relief of suffering,...

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified ab...

Countless public health agencies are trying to solve our most intractable public health problems -- among them, the obesity and opioid epidemics --...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New Yorker and Science News What happens when you try to recreate a woolly mammothfascinating scienc...

Elizabeth Anscombe is now recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. She left a large corpus of w...

From two of the worlds leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without peopleWhat would happen to dogs if humans ...

Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice. Targeted cancer therapies yield only v...

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 4...

Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bioeth...

What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientist...

This work presents the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of all relevant issues and topics in contemporary global bioethics. Now that bi...

How does biotechnology touch on human destiny? What are its promises and challenges? In search for a response, the present volume turns to the thou...

What is epidemiology? What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented? Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of...

This book is a set of recommendations from the Bioethics Commission in response to a request from President Obama to review the ethical issues asso...

Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaini...

Over the past decades, public trust in medical professionals has steadily declined. This decline of trust and its replacement by ever tighter regul...

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists'' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evi...

Conscience in Reproductive Health Care responds to the growing worldwide trend of health care professionals conscientiously refusing to provide abo...

There is a growing crisis in scientific research characterized by failures to reproduce experimental results, fraud, lack of innovation, and burn-o...

An exploration of the scientific mindset-such character virtues as curiosity, veracity, attentiveness, and humility to evidence-and its importance ...

An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective. The rate at wh...

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional em...

This book is open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The making of British bioethics provides the first in-depth study of how philosophers, lawyer...

A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers. This book offers the first comprehe...

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between ...

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for commu...

Pressing ethical issues are at the foreground of newfound knowledge of how the brain works, how the brain fails, and how information about its func...

An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and...

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront...

Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned wit...

This concise version of INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION, International Edition offers the same clear and accurate accounts of complex scientific findin...