Authors:Mr. Scott B. Rae, Mr. Paul M. Cox,
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Keywords: bioethics, issues, critical, approach, christian, pluralistic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-06-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0802845959
ISBN-13: 9780802845955
This excellent introduction to bioethics provides principled moral discussion of today’s medical and scientific breakthroughs. Written to help people understand the challenging, often controversial field of bioethics, this needed work explains and assesses the various secular approaches to bioethics that are influential today. Using currently debated topics in bioethics as illustrations, the authors discuss the theological themes that are central to a fully informed Christian perspective on bioethics. Their work provides readers with the essential background for effectively engaging the
Author: Farhat Moazam
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: bioethics, ethnography, religion, humanities, culture, society, organ, transplantation, muslim, study
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-08-10
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0253347823
ISBN-13: 9780253347824
This is an ethnographic study of live, related kidney donation in Pakistan, based on Farhat Moazam?s participant-observer research conducted at a public hospital. Her narrative is both a "thick" description of renal transplant cases and the cultural, ethical, and family conflicts that accompany them, and an object lesson in comparative bioethics.
Authors:Amir Muzur, Hans-Martin Sass,
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Keywords: bioethics, future, integrative, global, jahr, foundations, fritz
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2012-06-25
List price: $49.90
ISBN-10: 3643901127
ISBN-13: 9783643901125
Author: H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: bioethics, foundations
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1996-01-04
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0195057368
ISBN-13: 9780195057362
This new, thoroughly recast second edition has been acclaimed as "not just another revision" but "the most important book that has been written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical explorations of the foundations of secular bioethics have been substantially and provocatively expanded in this edition. The book Challenges the foundations of much of contemporary Bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition o
Author: Walter Glanno
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: brain, bioethics
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0195371941
ISBN-13: 9780195371949
Our ability to map and intervene in the structure of the human brain is proceeding at a very quick rate. Advances in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery have given us fresh insights into the neurobiological basis of human thought and behavior. Technologies like MRI and PET scans can detect early signs of psychiatric disorders before they manifest symptoms. Electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain can non-invasively relieve symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and other conditions resistant to treatment, while implanting neuro-electrodes can help patients with Parki
Author: Ben Mepham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: biosciences, introduction, bioethics
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2008-05-25
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0199214301
ISBN-13: 9780199214303
Bioethical issues remain front-page news, with debate continuing to rage over issues including genetic modification, animal cloning, and "designer babies." With public opinion often driven by media speculation, how can we ensure that informed decisions regarding key bioethical issues are made in a reasoned, objective way? Ideal for students new to the subject, Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences offers a balanced, objective introduction to the field. With a focus on developing powers of reasoning and judgment, the book presents different perspectives on common themes in an impartia
Author: Joanna Zylinska
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: media, new, bioethics
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-05-29
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262240564
ISBN-13: 9780262240567
Bioethical dilemmasincluding those over genetic screening, compulsory vaccination, and abortionhave been the subject of ongoing debates in the media, among the public, and in professional and academic communities. But the paramount bioethical issue in an age of digital technology and new media, Joanna Zylinska argues, is the transformation of the very notion of life. In this provocative book, Zylinska examines many of the ethical challenges that technology poses to the allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human. In doing so, she goes beyond the traditional understanding of bioethics as a matter
