Bioethics Books
Springer International Publishing AG Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife
Book SynopsisThe North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAM) is the driver of a strong anthropocentric stance, which has legalized an ongoing, annual exploitation of hundreds of millions of wild animals, who are killed in the United States through trapping, hunting and other lethal practices. Increasingly, the American public opposes the killing of wild animals for recreation, trophies and profit but has little—if any—knowledge of the Model. The purpose of this book is to empower the public with knowledge about the NAM’s insufficiencies and to help expedite the shift from lethal to compassionate conservation, an endeavour urgently needed particularly under the threats of climate change, human population growth and accelerating plant and animal species extinctions.With a focus on trapping, this book exposes the NAM's belief in human supremacy and its consequences for wild animals and their ecosystems, the same value that is driving the ongoing global destruction of nature and accelerating species extinction. Motivated by a deep concern for wild animals who suffer and whose lives are extinguished each year by 'sportsmen and women', this book exposes the violent treatment of wild animals inherent in governmental-promoted hunting and trapping programs, while emphasizing the importance of empathy and compassion for other animals in conservation and in our lives.Trade Review“In her new book about the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, Anja Heister offers a historical view of wildlife management … . Heister’s work should be added to any curricula for students of wildlife management as well as history, as her work adds richness and depth to our shared knowledge and will teach critical thinking rather than train the next generation of NAM-based thinkers. … this book is certainly helping.” (Julie Marshall, The Denver Post, denverpost.com, December 30, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Animal Standpoint.- Chapter 3: The North American Model for Wildlife Conservation.- Chapter 4: The Existing Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.- Chapter 5: The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation’s Selective Use of Ethics to Support Exploitation of Wild Animals.- Chapter 6: NAM’s Science and Impacts of Policies in Pacific and Mountain West Regions.- Chapter 7: Crime Scenes in the Woods: The NAM and Cruelty against Wild Animals.- Chapter 8: Abandoning Human Entitlement: Empathy, Compassion, and Rights for Nonhuman Animals.
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Springer International Publishing AG A Guide to Responsible Research
Book SynopsisThis Open Access book is a guide to good, responsible research at each step of the process of research discovery, so that a researcher at the beginning of a scientific career has a clear pathway to doing good research and producing reliable results.The textbook will give context to the practices described in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, guided by the fundamental principles or research integrity – reliability, honesty, respect, and accountability. Although we base the book on the European Code, the principles are the same in the global research community, such as those outlined in Fostering Integrity in Research from the US National Academies; Engineering and Medicine. The chapters in the book follow good research practices, give practical advice and address basic principles. In this way, the book is applicable to different research fields. It directs readers to various sources for further and updated information, particularly drawing from the resources available at The Embassy of Good Science, the European platform for research integrity and ethics.Table of ContentsChap 1. Research Environment.-Chap 2. Training, Supervision and Mentoring.- Chap 3. Research Procedures.-Chap 4. Safeguards.-Chap 5. Data Practices and Management.-Chap 6. Collaborative Working.-Chap 7. Publication and Dissemination.-Chap 8. Reviewing, Evaluating and Editing.-Chap 9. How to deal with allegations of misconduct.-
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Springer International Publishing AG The Patient as a Person: An Integrated and Systemic Approach to Patient and Disease
Book SynopsisIn the current era, evidence-based medicine and various supporting technologies dominate everyday clinical practice, according to a disease-centred, as opposed to patient-centred, approach. They have obviously improved the clinical management of diseases and it is therefore unreasonable to think of a medicine in which they are not considered fundamental. In fact, the strength of the new medicine should be to adapt scientific knowledge to a specific clinical case. This book therefore looks at the prospect of a new 'person' centred medicine, which stands alongside the 'disease' and 'patient' centred medicine, which pays special attention to the subjectivity of scientific knowledge and the relationship between doctor and patient. It is important to emphasise that this book is written by several hands, i.e. by experts from different fields, doctors, philosophers, architects, sociologists, art critics, physicists and engineers. This is with the intention of providing as broad a perspective as possible on the doctor-patient relationship. Due to its translational and multicultural approach to the subject, the book will be of interest to a wide readership, from medical experts to students, psychologists, philosophers and institutional actors.Table of ContentsSection 1 - Between the doctor and the patient1. Between the doctor and the patient: the history of the relationship2. Between the doctor and the patient: the ancient conceptions of philosophy as medicine3. Between the doctor and the patient: origins of an intermediate world4. A systemic approach to health and disease: the interaction of individuals, medicines, cultures and environments5. The ward as a scene6. Between the doctor and the patient: the role of the unconscious in the relationship7. Between the doctor and the patient: Bioethics8. Between the doctor and the patient: consent and trust9. Between the doctor and the patient: big data and precision medicine10. Rehabilitation after a disease: what is “normality” after an invalidating disease?Section 2 - The patient as a person and the disease11. Toward patient care: integrative and complementary approaches12. Human complexity: a symphony of vital rhythms13. Spirituality in medicine: a new dimension in the light of a millennial tradition14. The body of Descartes and humanism in medicine15. The history of narrative medicine. A way to know the patient dimension between Apollonian and Dionysian16. To care for a patient as a person: emotional architecture of the environment17. Beauty Saves. Culture Cures18. An integrated and systemic approach to the patient: beyond Evidence Based Medicine19. Medicine: a science in-between20. A dialogue between the philosopher and the doctor1.
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Springer International Publishing AG Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada: Key
Book SynopsisThis book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. In the first five years (2015-2021) of operation, this program delivered voluntary euthanasia and assistance in suicide to over 30,000 Canadian residents, presently representing a 30% annual growth. Looking back on these first five years, the 30 Canadian scholars and clinicians contributing to this volume raise important issues and attempt to answer key questions that have arisen in regards to its operation and its stated objectives. This volume strikes the most appropriate balance between the autonomy of persons who seek medical assistance, versus the interests and protection of vulnerable persons. Finally, the book makes suggestions on how the program can presently be improved. It identifies gaps in knowledge about MAID’s operational program and its impact on individuals, families and society in order to stimulate the necessary research that is essential to the evolution of a healthy and well-balanced program. As a first, comprehensive examination of medically assisted deaths in Canada, this publication will be of great value to lay, professional, academic, political audiences both domestically and internationally, especially in jurisdictions that are examining their options of permitting assisted deaths.Table of ContentsPart 1: MAID in Law and Regulations.- Chapter 1. Radical Autonomy in Supreme Court of Canada Jurisprudence (Dylan McGuinty).- Chapter 2. Carter v Canada: Exploring the Ebb and Flow of “Competing” Societal Values (Mary J Shariff).- Chapter 3. From a Court Judgment to Federal Law (Travis Dumsday).- Chapter 4. “We Should Not Lightly Assume”: A Review of Legislative, Regulatory and Jurisprudential Developments of MAID Safeguards (David W. Shannon).- Chapter 5. F“Reasonably Foreseeable Natural Death” Requirement in Bill C-7, and Expressivist Harm (Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry).- Part 2: Operational Issues in the MAID program.- Chapter 6. Medical Assistance in Dying Step-by-Step: Processes and Challenges (Alireza Bagheri).- Chapter 7. Monitoring of MAID: Deficits of Transparency and Accountability (Jaro Kotalik).- Chapter 8. CFederal Annual Reports on MAID: Informative but Incomplete Picture (Jaro Kotalik).- Chapter 9. Organ Donation after Medical Assistance in Dying (Ryan Tonkens).- Chapter 10. Medical Practice in Presence of MAID (Amy Hendricks).- Part 3: Palliative Care and MAID.- Chapter 11. Palliative Care: Captive and Casualty of Carter v Canada? (Mary J Shariff).- Chapter 12. Palliative Care and Medical Assistance in Dying (Leonie Herx).- Chapter 13. Suffering as a Criterion for Medical Assistance in Dying (John F. Scott).- Chapter 14. The Assessment and Relief of Suffering in the Shadow of MAID (John F. Scott).- Part 4:Mental Disorders and MAID.- Chapter 15. Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) and Suicide: A community perspective (Mara Grunau).- Chapter 16. Unbalanced: Mental Illness, MAID, and Medico-Legal Principles (David W. Shannon).- Chapter 17. MAID for Persons with Mental Illness as a Sole Eligibility Criterion (Sephora Tang).- Chapter 18. MAID for Mental Illness: What Exactly is Being Consented To? (John Maher).- Part 5: Disability Perspectives, Human Rights and MAID.- Chapter 19. MAID to Die by Medical and Systemic Ableism (Heidi Janz).- Chapter 20. Assisted Life Before Assisted Death: Disability Discomfort Regarding MAID (Tim Stainton).- Chapter 21. Implementing Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Implications for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (William F. Sullivan).- Chapter 22. The Psychosocial Aspects of Adapting to Traumatic Non-Life-Threatening Disability (Irmo Marini).- Chapter 23. Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law and the Rights to Life and Equality at International Law (Roberto Lattanzio).- Part 6: Social and Cultural Issues of the MAID Programme.- Chapter 24. Examining Indigenous Perspectives on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) (Dwight Newman).- Chapter 25. Patient Physician Relationship and MAID: Trust and Autonomy (Louisa Pedri).- Chapter 26. The Importance of Conscience as an Independent Freedom (Derek Ross).- Chapter 27. Freedom of Conscience and Medical Assistance in Dying – Clinical Perspective (Simon Czajkowski).- Chapter 28. Spirit at the Gateway: Religious Reflections on Medical Assistance in Dying (Christine Jamieson).- Chapter 29. MAID Practice and Impact (Jaro Kotalik).- Chapter 30. MAID: Pasts, Present and Futures (Tom Koch).- Part 7: Overview and Conclusions.- Chapter 31. Overview and Conclusions.
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Springer International Publishing AG The National Parks of Indonesia
Book SynopsisThis book contains information on geographic location and park size, climate, topography, history of each park, and biodiversity and ecosystems.
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Springer Towards an Ethical Approach to Animals
Book SynopsisPart I. A Life Learning about Animals.- Chapter 1. Born with a Silver Spoon.- Chapter 2. Reading Agriculture.- Chapter 3. Studying ‘til the cows come home’.- Chapter 4. First Steps in Teaching Animals.- Chapter 5. Cambridge Days.- Chapter 6. Australia’s First Professor of Animal Welfare.- Chapter 7. Leaving the University of Queensland.- Chapter 8. Liberated.- Part II. Towards an Ethical Approach to Animals.- Chapter 9. Are Animals Alone in the Universe?.- Chapter 10. Are Humans Unique in Earth’s Animal Kingdom?.- Chapter 11. Our Relationship with Animals.- Chapter 12. Governing Society for the Benefit of Animals.- Chapter 13. Cruelty.- Chapter 14. Healthy Animals.- Chapter 15. Where Have All the Animals Gone?.- Chapter 16. How Can We Get There? Achieving an Ethical Approach to Animals.
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De Gruyter Gelingende Geburt
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De Gruyter Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement: Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities
Book SynopsisThe technological innovations that have made "learning" computers possible are being met with utopian hopes as well as apocalyptic apprehensions. Will AI research eventually lead to software systems that have consciousness and are capable of autonomous decision making? The essays challenge "strong AI" from the perspective of human agency and moral judgment, explain the categorical difference between vulnerable humans and AI devices, and discuss diverse forms of applied AI, such as prograns of natural language processing, computional creativity, neuroenhancement, and the use of AI in international healthcare. These theoretical issues are illustrated in essays that focus on the encounter with artificial beings in film, literature and theater. Examining science fiction that blurs the borderline between humans and deep-learning androids, the essays explore, and challenge, ways of questioning human exceptionalism, for instance by visualizing non-conscious cognition and sentience. The book suggests a sober distinction between well-argued achievements of digital technology and excessive, unfounded expectations.
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de Gruyter Bioethics and Racism
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Springer International Publishing AG Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants
Book SynopsisThis progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform. It provides needed analysis of the larger causes behind the immediate causes of illness and epidemics, particularly injustice, systemic inequities, and the cumulative effect of compound disadvantages. This moral approach to collective and individual responsibilities—on the part of practitioners as well as the public—supports a sound blueprint for finding answers to longstanding global and local concerns. Readers are challenged to recognize the critical role of social determinants to their perception of health issues, controversies, and possibilities as the book:· Details the epidemiologic evidence regarding social determinants of health. · Key ethical implications of the evidence regarding social determinants of health. · Considers the role of risky health behaviors in determining population health outcomes. · Addresses ethical questions of priority-setting at the policy and practice levels. · Translates social determinants of health into health policy goals. Half textbook, half monograph, Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health Is geared toward students in MPH programs as well as public health professionals in diverse contexts such as local health departments and non-profit organizations. It informs public health scientists and scholars, and can also serve as an introductory text for students in public health ethics, or as part of a general applied ethics course. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The Epidemiologic Evidence Regarding the Social Determinants of Health.- Justice, Compound Disadvantage, and Health Inequities.- Ethics, Responsibility, and Social Patterning of Risky Health Behaviors.- The Unbearable Oughtness of Public Health Policy.- The Social Determinants of Health and Public Health Practice.- Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Skill of End-of-Life Communication for Clinicians: Getting to the Root of the Ethical Dilemma
Book SynopsisWith a focus on end-of-life discussion in aging and chronically ill populations, this book offers insight into the skill of communicating in complex and emotionally charged discussions. This text is written for all clinicians and professionals in the fields of healthcare and public health who are faced with questions of ethical deliberation when a patient’s illness turns from chronic to terminal. This skill is required to manage care well in an age of advanced technology, and numerous autonomous choices. With a palliative care and ethics focus, the manuscript provides case studies illustrating issues which occur in the acuity and chronicity of end of life. Clear tools for clinicians, such as scripting and “the advance care planning video library" are included. The book focuses on the unique concept of outpatient ethics, including readmission prevention and shortened length of stay through good communication for clinicians who will be required to conduct this discussion with patients. The ethical undertone in this text provides a perfect opening for application in healthcare ethics classes, both in fields of public health and healthcare. Medical scholars and physicians, nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants, as well as social workers, both in practice and training, will benefit from this text.Trade Review“This book presents a personal account of the death of a family member to illustrate perceived communication deficits in planning and prioritizing care for a patient with chronic, progressive illness. … The book is written for those in medical school and advanced allied professional school.” (Michele S. Loos, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1. A Background on Ethics and the End of Life.- 2. Ethics Plays a Role In the Medicalization of Death.- 3. The Details in the Document.- 4. Case Studies.- 5. The Skill.
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Springer International Publishing AG Bioethics and Biopolitics: Theories, Applications
Book SynopsisThis volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics. This collection of papers can be categorized into different domains that are representative of the contemporary usage of biopolitics as a concept. On the one hand, several chapters develop a clear and up-to-date understanding of the primary sources of the concept and related theories of Agamben, Negri or Foucault and approach the question of relevance within the field of bioethics. Another group of papers apply the philosophical concepts and theories of biopolitics (biopower, Homo Sacer, biocitizenship) on very specific currently debated bioethical issues. Some scholars rely on the more mundane understanding of (bio)politics and investigate how its relationship with bioethics could be philosophically conceptualized. Additionally, this work also contains papers that follow a more legally oriented analysis on the effects of contemporary biopolitics on human rights and European law. The authors are philosophers, legal scholars or bioethicists. The major strength of this volume is to provide the reader with major insights and orientation in these different contemporary usages of the concept and theories of biopolitics, within the context of its various ethically relevant applications.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the volume: Perspectives on biopolitics and bioethics; Péter Kakuk.- Biopolitics and Biopower. The Foucauldian Heritage in the Light of the Contemporary Usage; Takács, Ádám.- How to get plump, or why do we choose what we choose?; Devisch, Ignaas.- preface:Theories of biopolitics and bioethical issues; Péter Kakuk.- Biological or Democratic Citizenship?; Árnason, Vilhjálmur.- Biopolitics and the Longevity of Lefthanders ; Arnason, Gardar.- Chronic Disorders of Consciousness and Homo Sacer; Edgar, Andrew.- Government, Big Pharma and the Exercise of Biopower: The ethical acceptability of lobbying and promotion; Badcott, David.- preface: Biopolitics and legal discourse; Péter Kakuk.- The ME MOLECULE; Sándor, Judit.- Of Emerging Life in Law: the European Story; Selkälä, Toni.- Beyond bioethics and biopolitics? Doing privacy ethics in whole Genome sequencing research; Schickhardt, Christoph & Winker, Eva C.- preface: Questions of relatedness: bioethics and biopolitics; Péter Kakuk.- Can bioethics escape from biopolitics?; ten Have, Henk.- Bioethics as politics Takala, Tuija.- On the relationship between bioethics and biopolitics; Gunson, Darryl.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Medizinische Ethik: Ein Arbeitsbuch
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Medizinische Ethik als Reflexion und Erfahrung.- Ursprung der medizinischen Ethik in der Situation des Helfens.- Anspruch der medizinischen Ethik.- Grundthemen der medizinischen Ethik.- 2. Einzelthemen der medizinischen Ethik.- Lebensbeginn.- Geburtenkontrolle.- Sterilisation.- Insemination.- Genetische Beratung-Pränatale Diagnostik.- Schwangerschaftsabbruch.- Perinatologie.- Lebenskrisen.- Intensivbehandlung.- Chirurgische Behandlung.- Organtransplantation.- Psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutische Intervention.- Sucht-Abhängigkeit.- Chronisches Kranksein.- Behinderung.- Gewalt und Medizin.- Katastrophen-und Wehrmedizin.- Rehabilitation-Nachsorge.- Lebensende.- Behandlungsabbruch.- Reanimation.- Begriff und Feststellung des Todes.- Sterbehilfe.- Wahrheit am Krankenbett.- Suizid.- Trauer.- Forschung.- Humanexperiment-Heilversuch..- Arzneimittelprüfungen.- Genforschung-Genmanipulation.- Ethikkommissionen.- Anhang. Textauswahl: Gesetzestexte und öffentliche Stellungnahmen.- Verzeichnis der Texte.- Gesetzestexte und öffentliche Stellungnahmen.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Klinische Ethik
Book SynopsisDie Klinische Ethik ist das Einsteigerbuch für die Ethik der Medizin im Querschnittsbereich 2. Darüber hinaus zeigt es den Weg zu ethisch verantwortlichem Handeln im klinischen Alltag. Grundlagen: Patientenverfügung, Sterbehilfe und Pränataldiagnostik. Pro & Contra argumentieren: Ethische Positionen werden ausführlich besprochen und ausgewogen bewertet.- Anschaulich und praxisnah geschrieben, mit zahlreichen Fallgeschichten. Relevant für die Praxis: Rechtlicher Kontext zu jedem Thema. - Empfehlungen ärztlicher Standesvertretungen. - Ethische Konflikte in der medizinischen Ausbildung. - 10 ethische Konfliktfälle zum Üben. Ethik endlich klinisch relevant! Table of ContentsPatientenaufklärung.- Ärztliche Schweigepflicht.- Entscheidungen am Lebensende.- Patientenverfügungen.- Entscheidungen am Beginn des Lebens.- Zwangsunterbringung und Zwangsbehandlung.- Behandlungsfehler.- Interkulturelle Konflikte.- Klinische Forschungsethik.- Mittelverteilung im Gesundheitswesen.- Ethische Konflikte in der medizinischen Ausbildung.- Medizinethisches Argumentieren.- Patientengeschichten.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Ethikberatung in der Medizin
Book SynopsisIn den letzten Jahren hat sich eine Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Gremien zur Ethikberatung entwickelt: vom Konsil mit einem einzelnen Berater bis zum Ethikkomitee. In dem Band werden die Ethikberatung, ihre Entwicklung und Anwendung, sowie die Gründung von Gremien in Krankenhäusern, Pflegeeinrichtungen, Hospizen und von niedergelassenen Ärzten anhand von Fallbeispielen erläutert. Dabei schlagen die Autoren eine Brücke zwischen traditioneller philosophischer Ethik und anwendungsbezogener klinischer Ethik. Auch rechtliche Fragen werden erörtert.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: “… einem detaillierten Stichwortverzeichnis machen vor allem die klare Gliederung, ein unprätentiöser Stil und ein gelungenes Layout das Werk ...“ Table of ContentsVorwort.- Inhaltsverzeichnis.- Autorenverzeichnis.- Abkürzungsverzeichnis.- 1. Ethikberatung im Gesundheitswesen – zur Einführung.- I Grundlagen von Ethikberatung und Klinischer Ethik.- 2. Klinische Ethik und Ethikberatung.- 3. Ethikberatung und Ethikkomitees in Deutschland.- 4. Philosophische Ethik und Klinische Ethik.- 5. Ethische Fallbesprechung und Supervision.- 6. Professionalisierung und Standardisierung der Ethikberatung.- II Modelle und Beispiele der Implementierung von Ethikberatung.- 7. Medizinethik an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.- 8. Klinisches Ethikkomitee Düsseldorf-Gerresheim.- 9. Implementierung eines Klinischen Ethikkomitees.- 10. Die Einrichtung der Klinischen Ethikberatung am Universitätsklinikum Ulm.- III. Neue Anwendungsfelder und Herausforderungen der Zukunft.- 11. Ethikberatung für Hausärzte bei Patienten am Lebensende.- 12. Ethikberatung in der Altenhilfe.- 13. Ethikberatung im Hospiz.- 14. Rechtliche Fragen der Medizinethik und klinischer Beratung am Lebensende.- 15. Ethikberatung und Recht.- Anhang.- Nützliche Internetadressen.- Stichwortverzeichnis.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Social Freezing: Die Möglichkeiten der modernen
Book SynopsisIn diesem Band werden sowohl die medizinischen Chancen und Risiken der modernen Reproduktionsmedizin erläutert, als auch ihre gesellschaftspolitischen und ethischen Dimensionen in den Blick genommen. Expertenstatements aus den an der Debatte beteiligten Disziplinen eröffnen einen mehrperspektivischen Einblick in die Thematik.Table of ContentsDie moderne Fortpflanzungsmedizin: Reproduktionsmedizinische Rahmenbedingungen und Risikofaktor maternales Alter.- Die gesellschaftlich-politische Perspektive: Der Wandel von Familien- und Lebensmodellen, die Bedeutung der medizinischen und psychosozialen Beratung und die Rolle der schulischen Aufklärungsarbeit.- Die ethische Debatte: Eingriff in die Menschenwürde oder Selbstbestimmung der Frau?.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Organspende als Herausforderung gelingender
Book SynopsisKommunikation im Kontext der Organspende gehört zu den sensibelsten und herausforderndsten Aufgaben im Klinikalltag. Angehörige und medizinisches Fachpersonal begegnen sich in einer äußerst belastenden Phase der Unsicherheit, Trauer und Verletzlichkeit. Dennoch müssen sie gemeinsam klären, ob ein Organspendeausweis vorliegt und das bereits intensivmedizinisch betreute Familienmitglied einer Organspende zustimmen würde. Die Interessen der Beteiligten unterscheiden sich und treffen sich zugleich in der Zielsetzung, den Willen des Patienten mit dieser Entscheidung umzusetzen. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band reflektiert die im Feld bestehenden Kontingenzen. Er zielt auf eine Präzisierung der Wahrnehmung und erörtert Handlungsoptionen, die dazu beitragen können, diese spezifische Kommunikationssituation konkret zu entlasten.Table of ContentsVorwortTeil 1: Grundlagen und KontexteCharlotte Koscielny, Monika E. Fuchs, Julia Inthorn, Elena Link & Frank Logemann: Organspende als Herausforderung gelingender Kommunikation – EinführungElena Link & Mona Wehming: Organspende als Gegenstand massenmedialer und interpersonaler Kommunikation Teil 2: Akteure und Aspekte im GesprächsverlaufFrank Logemann: Das Leid der Angehörigen und der Druck der Warteliste: Die Aufgabe von Ärztinnen und Ärzten bei Gesprächen zur OrganspendeRuth Denkhaus: „Mein Herz würde ich niemals hergeben.“ Ein Überblick über den Forschungsstand zu Befürchtungen und Vorbehalten gegenüber der Organspende in DeutschlandBarbara Denkers: Gespräche zur Organspende: Herausforderungen für Angehörige Susanne Hirsmüller & Margit Schröer: Trauer – Wut – Schuld – Angst: Emotionen und Reaktionen im akuten EntscheidungsprozessTeil 3: Interdisziplinäre PerspektivierungenElena Link: Gelingende Kommunikation über Organspende?! Eine kommunikationswissenschaftliche KommentierungCharlotte Koscielny & Monika E. Fuchs: Kommunikation über Organspende als schulischer Bildungsauftrag?! Grundlagen, Bestandsaufnahme und PerspektivenJulia Inthorn: Gelingende Kommunikation: ethische Reflexion der normativen Grundlagen der Angehörigengespräche über OrganspendeVerzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren
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Springer VS Leihmutterschaft interdisziplinär
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe At the Dawn of a Great Transition: The Question
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Transcript Verlag Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel:
Book SynopsisPrenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), has changed the experience of pregnancy, prenatal care and responsibilities in Israel and Germany in different ways. These differences reflect the countries' historical legacies, medico-legal policies, normative and cultural identities. Building on this observation, the contributors of this book present conversations between leading scholars from Israel and Germany based on an empirical bioethical perspective, analyses about the reshaping of 'life' by biomedicine, and philosophical reflections on socio-cultural claims and epistemic horizons of responsibilities. Practices and discussions of reproductive medicine transform the concepts of responsibility and irresponsibility.
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Trivent Publishing Medical Futility in Paediatrics:
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the issues and challenges raised by the high-profile cases of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans. The individual chapters, which complement one other, were written by scholars with expertise in Law, Medicine, Medical Ethics, Theology, Health Policy and Management, English Literature, Nursing and History, from the UK, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Spain, Turkey and the USA.The following are among the key questions explored in the book. Is the courtroom an appropriate forum for resolving conflicts relating to medical futility in paediatrics? If so, should parental rights be protected by confining judicial powers only to cases where there is a risk of significant harm to the infant; or should the "best interests" test continue to be recognised as the "gold standard" for paediatric cases? If not, should mediation be used instead, but how well would this alternative method of dispute resolution work for medical futility conflicts? Further, should social media be deployed to garner support, and should outsiders who are not fully acquainted with the medical facts refrain from intervening? And, how are comparable situations likely to be managed in different countries? What lessons can be learned from them as well as from religious perspectives?Table of Contents Foreword by Michael Redfern QC Preface by Kartina Aisha Choong Notes on Contributors INTRODUCTION. Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans: Their Medico-Legal Journeys, by Kartina A. Choong PART I. ISSUES AND CHALLENGES CHAPTER 1. The Vexed Question of Best Interests in Decisions Relating to Infants and Medical Futility, by Jo Samanta CHAPTER 2. Best Interests: The "Gold Standard" or a Gold Plating? Should Significant Harm be a Threshold Criterion in Paediatric Cases? by William Seagrim CHAPTER 3. Charlie's Law: Clarifying the Legal Standard to be Used in Medical Decision-Making for Children, by Sarah Sargent CHAPTER 4. Media Framing of "Medical Futility": Flaming the Debate?, by Kim McGuire CHAPTER 5. Resource-intense Treatments in a Resource-finite Environment, by Richard Wai Ming Law CHAPTER 6. Citizenship at the Discretion of the State: Public Law Issues Regarding Evans' Naturalisation, by Alejandra Boto CHAPTER 7. Contested Paediatric Palliative Care: A Church of England Perspective, by Brendan McCarthy CHAPTER 8. The Dynamics of Clinical Judgment, Religious Conventions and Parental Responsibilities: An Islamic Perspective, by Mahmood Chandia, Abdulla al-Shami CHAPTER 9. Do Parents Have a Right to Determine Where a Child Patient Dies?, by Lisa Cherkassky PART II. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER 10. Serving the Child's "Best Interests" in Australia, by Roslyn Jones CHAPTER 11. Medical Futility in Czech Paediatrics: At the Edge of Law, Bioethics, and Medicine, by Helena Krej?íková CHAPTER 12. The Application of End-of-Life Legislation to Minors in France, by Stephanie Rohlfing-Dijoux CHAPTER 13. Patient Autonomy and Best Interests in End-of-Life Cases: A German Perspective, by Peter Elsner CHAPTER 14. Gard and Evans: A Reflection on What Might Happen in India, by Abhay Vaidya, Sourabhi Sahakari CHAPTER 15. Medical Futility and Parental Paternalism in Turkey, by Banu Buruk, Berna Arda CHAPTER 16. If We Can, Must We? Just Whose Best Interests Are We Talking About? Perspectives from the USA, by Vincent F. Maher
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Trivent Publishing The Bioethics of the Crazy Ape
Book SynopsisThe Bioethics of the "Crazy Ape" collects a wide range of bioethical topics. Bioethical questions are eternal by nature, although our technologized times transform old issues in forms never before experienced. Just like the famous scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi believed in his time, we also believe that all the contributing authors recognised their moral responsibility in adding new approaches to the continuum of each debate. Although this responsibility has became increasingly complex, we must avoid to become barriers of the scientific development. Bioethics as an applied field of philosophy should always try to establish a framework for a sustainable world: in daily clinical practice, in cases of human experiments, and (not least) in the natural environment.Table of Contents Introduction By Oguz Kelemen, Gergely Tari PART I. ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES 1. The Dignity of Apes, Humans, and AI, by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner 2. Human Dignity in Genetic Engineering (With Some Hungarian Examples), by Vivien Szútor PART II. BIOETHICS, ANTHROPOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY 3. Please geben vôtre consentimiento! Informed Decision-Making in Intercultural Context, by Attila Dobos 4. Can Kant's Position Be Guessed in a Debate on Access to New Technical Advances in Medicine?, by Daniela Reisz, Alexandra Anghel 5. Children's Bioethics, Theory of Attachment, and P4C, by Florin Lobont 6. Implementing Purity and Combating Impurity: Biopower and Totalist Movements, by Mihai Murariu 7. The Psy-complex: Out of the Techno-Scientific Paradigm?, by Attila Bánfalvi 8. Euthanasia in the Contemporary World: What Role Does Faith Play in the Choice to Legalize Assisted Dying Practices?, by Sorin Grigore Vulc?nescu PART III. GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS 9. A Critique of the Environmental Ethical Critique of Christian Anthropocentrism, by Ferenc Hérány 10. Ecocentrism or the Attempt to Leave Antropocentricity, by Dejan Donev 11. Debating Public Policy: Ethics, Politics and Economics of Wildlife Management in Southern Africa, by Matthew Crippen, John Salevurakis 12. The Role of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in the Controversy over Genetically-Modified Food, by Ivica Kelam PART IV. ETHICAL AND LEGAL CHALLENGES IN MEDICINE AND RESEARCH 13. UDBHR: An Interpretation in the Indian Medico-legal and Bioethical Context, by Anamika Krishnan 14. An Evaluation of Faith-Based Perspectives on the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from Patients in a Permanent Vegetative State, by Kartina A. Choong, Mahmood Chandia 15. Reproductive Autonomy and Genetic Technologies: Ethical and Legal Implications Related to Sex Selection, by Narine Harutyunyan 16. The Medicalization of Childbirth: Ethical and Legal Issues of Negative Childbirth Experience, by Gergely Tari, Csaba Hamvai 17. Prophylactic Mastectomy on Demand, by Csaba Hamvai, Gergely Tari, Melinda Csenki 18. Truth Disclosure in the Age of Technologized Medicine, by Coralia Cotoraci, Alciona Sasu, Mircea Onel, Cristina Ghib-Para 19. Ethical Challenges Related to Marketing Drugs, by Miroslav Radenkovi?, Ivana Lazarevi?, Marko Stojanovi?, Tanja Jovanovi? 20. Disclosing Research Results to Participants: Is There a Consensus?, by Adél Tóth
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Trivent Publishing Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies: From
Book SynopsisPastor Fritz Jahr used the term bioethics as early as 1927. It was not until the early 1970s that the term was rediscovered in the United States. Since then, the relevance of this emergent academic field of studies has permanently been growing, as the age of biotechnological and medical innovations has only just begun. Enormous progress can be expected in various areas relevant to bioethical discourses in the coming decades and centuries. In the past years, the invention of CRISPR/Cas9 has radically changed the possibilities concerning genetic modifications, even germline modifications have turned into a practical option. These developments need to be investigated by academics from various disciplines, which is the reason why the conference series on Bioethics in the New Age of Science was initialized. The present volume consists in selected papers from the first International Conference on Bioethics in the New Age of Science, which took place on the 4th and 5th of May 2017 at the "Vasile Goldis" West University of Arad, Romania.Table of Contents Introduction By Maria Sinaci and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner PART I. GENERAL ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF EMERGING (BIO)TECHNOLOGIES CHAPTER 1. Genes, CRISPR/Cas 9, and Posthumans, by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner CHAPTER 2. Can Ethics Govern Technology? Bioethics in the Age of Techno-Science, by Corrado Viafora CHAPTER 3. The Moral Relationship of the Human and the Non-Human Animals in Light of Ethology, by Alexander Krémer PART II. ETHICS OF ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES CHAPTER 4. Neuroethics and Moral Enhancement: The Path to a Moral World?, by Maria Sinaci CHAPTER 5. Public Deliberation and Biomedical Enhancements, by Ivan Mladenovi? PART III. SPECIFIC MEDICAL ETHICAL ISSUES CHAPTER 6. On the Ethical Issues of Bilateral and Contralateral Risk-Reducing Mastectomy, by Gergely Tari, Gábor Braunitzer CHAPTER 7. Haematological Patients' Perception of Their Quality of Life, by Alciona Sasu, Mircea Onel, Cristina Ghib-Para, Ligia Piro?, Alin Grelu?, Coralia Cotoraci PART IV. END OF LIFE ETHICAL ISSUES CHAPTER 8. Is Death the Enemy? The Normative Power of Metaphor in Bioethics, by Assya Pascalev CHAPTER 9. Philosophical-Ethical Alleviation of Perceptive Experience of Corporeality in Terminally Ill Sufferers, by Florin Lobon?, Ionu? Mladin PART V. BIOETHICS AND REGIONAL EDUCATION CHAPTER 10. Bioethics Education in Western Romania, by Antoanela Naaji CHAPTER 11. (Bio)ethical Education for Young People in Macedonia, by Dejan Donev PART VI. LEGAL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL BIOETHICAL ISSUES CHAPTER 12. Ethical Concerns Regarding Mandatory Influenza Vaccination in Healthcare Practitioners, by Miroslav Radenkovi?, Ivana Lazarevi?, Marko Stojanovi?, Tanja Jovanovi? CHAPTER 13. Legal and Ethical Rules of Performing Medical Professions in Poland, by Jakub Berezowski CHAPTER 14. A New Pro-Natalist Tool: Parenthood as a Form of Public Employment, by János I. Tóth CHAPTER 15. Cultural and Ethical Aspects of Social Desirability in Psychological Research, by Maria Ancuta Gurza
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Trivent Publishing Heading Towards Humans Again: Aspects of
Book SynopsisBioethics has become an important part of everyday dynamics, encompassing both clinical and research ethics. This edited collection aims to challenge some critical cornerstones of today's contemporary bioethical concerns and issues. The individual chapters were prepared by esteemed scholars with international background in their specialties. Nowadays technological revolution is reaching a whole new level, continuously challenging us to define what is human. Keeping this in mind, the authors provided comprehensive and thoughtful views on different bioethical issues, including cultural and social influences on contemporary bioethics, posthumanism and transhumanism, death, the critical importance of informed consent, prenatal genetic testing, gene and cell therapy, mandatory vaccinations, cannabis use, antidoping concerns, treatment of rare diseases and pain management, and finally educational and legislative lines of reasoning.Table of Contents Introduction, by Miroslav Radenkovi? CHAPTER 1. Attila Dobos, Neuroanthropological Turn in Bioethics? Insights from Interculturality CHAPTER 2. Alexander Kremer, Transhumanism or Pragmatism? CHAPTER 3. Oana Iftime, ?tefana-Maria Petru?, The Danger of False Promises and Hopes in the New Age of Science: The Case of Gene and Cell Therapy CHAPTER 4. Miroslav Radenkovi?, Informed Consent. The Current Standing CHAPTER 5. Raluca Dumache, Alexandra Enache, Informed Consent and Medical Decision Making: Ethical Challenges CHAPTER 6. Branislava Medi? Brki?, Miroslav Radenkovi?, Katarina Savi? Vujovi?, Nevena Divac, Sonja Vu?kovi?, Radan Stojanovi?, Dragana Srebro, Miloš Basailovi?, Milica Prostran, Pharmacotherapy of Rare Diseases in Serbia: Bioethical Challenges and How to Overcome Them CHAPTER 7. Katarina Savi? Vujovi?, Miroslav Radenkovi?, Branislava Medi?, Sla?ana Mihajlovi?, Sonja Vu?kovi?, Nevena Divac, Radan Stojanovi?, Dragana Srebro, Miloš Basailovi?, Milica Prostran, Ethical Issues Regarding Chronic Pain From the Perspective of a Clinical Pharmacologist CHAPTER 8. Danijela Vu?evi?, Janko Samardži?, Bojan Jorga?evi?, Igor Panti?, Jovana Paunovi? Panti?, Tatjana Radosavljevi?, The Medicalization of Cannabis as an Ethical Challenge in the 21st Century CHAPTER 9. Luboslava Kostova, Is There a Moral Reproductive Behaviour in the Context of Prenatal Diagnosis and Care? CHAPTER 10. Antoanela Naaji, Gratiana Chicin, Ethical Challenges in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination CHAPTER 11. Danijela Vu?evi?, Igor Panti?, Janko Samardži?, Bojan Jorga?evi?, Jovana Paunovi? Panti?, Tatjana Radosavljevi?, Ethical Issues and Spiritual Challenges in End-Of-Life Care CHAPTER 12. Jelena Roganovi?, The Lack of Dental Ethics Education in the Undergraduate Curricula in Dental Schools of Serbian Universities CHAPTER 13. Jelena Šantri?, The Challenges of the Double Role of the Ethical Commission at the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Belgrade CHAPTER 14. Levente Nagy, Sports and the Ethical Implications of Performance Enhancing Substances
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Pentagon Press Future Biothics
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Springer Classification, Disease and Evidence: New Essays
Book SynopsisThis anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? (d) How do we assess and choose cure/ therapy?The book is divided into three sections: classification, disease and evidence. In general, attention is focused on statistics in medicine and epidemiology, issues in psychiatry and connecting medicine with evolutionary biology and genetics. Many authors position the theories that they address within their historical contexts.The nature of health and disease will be addressed in several essays that also touch upon very general questions about the definition of medicine and its status. Several chapters scrutinize classification because of its centrality within philosophical problems raised by medicine and its core position in the philosophical questioning of psychiatry. Specificities of medical explanation have recently come under a new light, particularly because of the rise of statistical methods and several chapters investigate these methods in specific contexts such as epidemiology or meta-analysis of random testing. Taken together this collection addresses the question of how we gather, use and assess evidence for various medical theories.The rich assortment of disciplines featured also includes epidemiology, parasitology and public health, while technical aspects such as the application of game theory to medical research and the misuse of the DSM in forensic psychiatry are also given an airing. The book addresses more than the construction of medical knowledge, however, adding cogent appraisal of the processes of decision making in medicine and the protocols used to justify therapeutic choices.Trade Review“This volume is a collection of philosophy of medicine chapters that deal, in one way or another, with the three linked themes of the title. … The chapters are well-researched and well-written and provide the reader with a useful snapshot of contemporary philosophy of medicine. … this book is a valuable addition to the research literature. ” (Brendan Clarke, Metascience, Vol. 25, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Evolutionary Models of Virulence: Concepts, History and Current Applications; Alizon, Sam and Méthot, Pierre Olivier.-Objectivity, Scientificity, and the Dualist Epistemology of Medicine; Cunningham; Thomas.- The Function Debate and the Concept of Mental Disorder; Steeves, Demazeux.- Defining genetic disease; Dekeuwer; Catherine.- Causal and probabilistic inferences in diagnostic reasoning: casting a historical light onto the current debates; Coste, Joël.- Risk factor and causality in epidemiology; Giroux, Elodie.- The naturalization of the concept of disease; Lemoine, Mael.- The Epistemology of Mental Illness; Dominic Murphy.- Power, Knowledge and Laughter: Forensic Psychiatry and the misuse of the DSM; Singy, Patrick.- Quality Assessment Tools for Evidence in Medicine; Stegenga, Jacob.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation
Book SynopsisThis book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease. Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial groups. Within this market, the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine targeting African Americans as its first racial group. Consequently, selecting African Americans as a “starter group” led to ethical questions regarding the motive behind race-based medicine within the context of the larger treatment of blacks in American medical history. This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine’s influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil’s approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church’s response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.Trade Review“Medical Stigmata encourages readers to apply similar hermeneutics to clinical contexts, using scripture to challenge the determinist narratives that pervade medicine and its adjacent industries.” (Audrey Farley, Marginalia, marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org, October 18, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Race-Based Medicine.- Chapter 3 Maleficence toward the Minority Patient.- Chapter 4 Research, Race, and Profit.- Chapter 5 Black Theology and Reconciliation.- Chapter 6 Conclusion.- Bibliography.
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Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd Creating Life from Life: Biotechnology and
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of essays by scientists, historians, philosophers of science, and students. The essays meld biotechnology into science fiction stories and thereby open a conversation about the morality of what we may be one day, and what it may mean to be human as our biotechnological endeavors continue to evolve. The biotechnology "revolution," launched on a global scale many decades ago, has taken a direct course toward re-creating life. Yet there are still many choices to be made in shaping the future that it may one day make possible. The book motivates readers toward deep reflection and continual discourse, which are essential if biotechnology is to evolve in ethical, meaningful, and sustainable ways.Table of ContentsIntroduction and History. Science-Story Dialectic as a Discourse of Change. History of the Biotechnology Revolution. Understanding Problems & Approaching Cures. The "Vicious Cycle" of Obesity. Madeline. Prion Diseases. Carnivore’s Game. Climate Change and the Future of Freshwater. Negotiations. Adult Stem Cells to Cure Diabetes-induced Vision Loss. Shadows, and Sugars, and Shades of Grey (Madeline, Part. 2). New Knowledge & New Capabilities. Neogenesis. Madness Enough to Break the World. Who Do They Think They Are? Emmanuel. Keys to Bioproducts from Agriculture. Soon They’ll Know our Secrets. Dr. Hyde. The Promise and Pitfalls of Cognitive Enhancement. Build Me a Memory. On We Go. To Where, Who Knows? The Uncertain Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. Rōnin. Closing Reflection on the Word "Revolution".
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