Bio-ethics

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the ...

Supererogation is the category of moral actions which go beyond the call of duty. This collection of articles is the first of its kind to cover the...

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian li...

This collection of original essays by scientists, theologians, religious studies scholars, and ethicists offers an authoritative, illuminating, and...

This book tackles complex global issues like vaccination, climate change, environmental ethics, embryo adoption, and surrogate motherhood viewed fr...

This open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening b...

This open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening b...

This book presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research. Compared to the first edition, ten of the 40 ...

This book offers a set of reflections on the ethics of care in full articulation with some of the most pressing issues of our time. Several themes ...

International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomed...

International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomed...

Ein striktes Verbot der Eizellspende ist in einer liberalen Gesellschaft nicht gerechtfertigt. Dennoch ist sie mit Problemen behaftet, die nicht ig...

Tod und Sterben gehören zu den existentiellen Grunderfahrungen des Menschseins, die seit jeher Gegenstand kultureller Deutung sind. Der erste Teil ...

This book contains information on geographic location and park size, climate, topography, history of each park, and biodiversity and ecosystems. It...

Dieses Buch verfolgt einen Ansatz der reproduktiven Gerechtigkeit, um zu argumentieren, dass die Leihmutterschaft, wie sie auf den heutigen neolibe...

Health and welfare issues of brachycephalic (flat-faced) animals are one of the most pressing problems facing companion animals right now. Dogs, in...

We are all the result of gestation: the process of becoming before birth. The very nature of human gestation, however, has shifted and will continu...

This book presents an ethical discussion of the possible future Universal Declarations of (diverse specific nonhuman) Animal Rights. It contributes...

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point...

Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability. Indeed, interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operati...

Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies draws students into this rapidly changing field, helping them to actively untangle the many i...

Taking a global viewpoint, this volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modif...

This timely and up to date new edition of Biomedicine and Beatitude features an entirely new chapter on the ethics of bodily modification. It is al...