Imagine you were running a medical non-governmental organization (NGO) established to preserve the lives of poverty-stricken people in resource poor countries. Your NGO is also usually among the first to provide emergency assistance in case natural...Loe edasi...
Genomics, Populations, and Society, a new volume in the Genomic and Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice series, considers the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics in genomics, from bioethics to healthcare applications, healthcare economics,...Loe edasi...
Imagine you were running a medical non-governmental organization (NGO) established to preserve the lives of poverty-stricken people in resource poor countries. Your NGO is also usually among the first to provide emergency assistance in case natural...Loe edasi...
In this revised edition with a new preface from the editor, leading scientists explain the nature and goals of `test tube reproduction and genetic engineering, and their eugenic implications. In contrast to the Warnock report, the extended commentar...Loe edasi...
Ethics is integral to good nursing practice, and has been a mandatory part of the professional nursing curriculum for some time. This book aims to unpack the necessary theory, to stimulate reflection in and around practice and, crucially, to increase...Loe edasi...
This book examines the ethical concepts which lie at the heart of journalism, including freedom, democracy, truth, objectivity, honesty and privacy. The common concern of the authors is to promote ethical conduct in the practice of journalism, as we...Loe edasi...
Genomics and Society; Ethical, Legal-Cultural, and Socioeconomic Implications is the first book to address the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics identified as core priorities of the NHGRI in 2011.The work addresses fundamental issue...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107076075)
This book considers the right to know and the right not to know about your own and others genomes, discussing new privacy concerns and developments in ethical thinking, with the greater emphasis on solidarity and equity....Loe edasi...
Personal genetic information is increasingly accessible. Consumers can obtain and share information through DNA tests purchased online. Databases make personal details available for research or criminal investigation. This book examines the right to...Loe edasi...
Human genetic databases raise many ethical, legal and social questions. In this book, first published in 2007, bioethics scholars examine whether existing ethical frameworks and social policies adequately reflect peoples concerns, and how these fram...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2013, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781475771787)
It is difficult to think of an example of an advancement in the biological sciences that has had an impact on society similar to that of the new genetics. Recent developments in biotechnology have occasioned much discussion among academics, professio...Loe edasi...
Applied ethics, a subdiscipline of philosophy, lends itself to an encyclopedia format because of the many industries and intellectual fields that it encompasses. The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics is based on twelve major categories, such as B...Loe edasi...
For students, practitioners, academics, and researchers, Chadwick (Cardiff U., UK) et al. bring together 34 chapters in which an international group of specialists in philosophy, sociology, law, public policy, and the health professions discuss healt...Loe edasi...
This volume is a multidisciplinary and multinational collection of papers on aspects of genetic screening, with special reference to the situation in Europe. Starting from the situation in practice, the book proceeds to examine what lessons, if an...Loe edasi...
As we are increasingly using new technologies to change ourselves beyond therapy and in accordance with our own desires, understanding the challenges of human enhancement has become one of the most urgent topics of the current age. This volume con...Loe edasi...
Sari: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Nov-2008, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781402088513)
As we are increasingly using new technologies to change ourselves beyond therapy and in accordance with our own desires, understanding the challenges of human enhancement has become one of the most urgent topics of the current age. This volume contri...Loe edasi...
A collection celebrating some of the best essays from the Blackwell journals, Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics.Contributors include Helga Kuhse, Michael Selgelid and Baroness Mary Warnock, former Chair of the British Gov...Loe edasi...
Applied ethics has become established as a distinct area of study, but its methodology and practicality are still matters of controversy. This collection examines how the field has developed over the last fifty years, by bringing together those a...Loe edasi...
The pervasive phenomena of the media and politics are examined here in their moral particulars under the lens of applied ethics. Academics in the UK, Australia, Canada, Finland, and the US have written chapters on topics that include censorship, gun...Loe edasi...
