Bioethics Books
Springer International Publishing AG Ethics Dumping: Case Studies from North-South
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides original, up-to-date case studies of “ethics dumping” that were largely facilitated by loopholes in the ethics governance of low and middle-income countries. It is instructive even to experienced researchers since it provides a voice to vulnerable populations from the fore mentioned countries. Ensuring the ethical conduct of North-South collaborations in research is a process fraught with difficulties. The background conditions under which such collaborations take place include extreme differentials in available income and power, as well as a past history of colonialism, while differences in culture can add a new layer of complications. In this context, up-to-date case studies of unethical conduct are essential for research ethics training. Table of ContentsEthics Dumping: Introduction.- Social Science Research in a Humanitarian Emergency Context.- International Genomics Research Involving the San People.- Sex Workers Involved in HIV/AIDS Research.- Cervical Cancer Screening in India.- Ebola Vaccine Trials.-Hepatitis B Study with Gender Inequities.- Healthy Volunteers in Clinical Studies.-An International Collaborative Genetic Research Project Conducted in China.- The Use of Non-human Primates in Research.-Human Food Trial of a Transgenic Fruit.- ICT and Mobile Data for Health Research.- Safety and Security Risks of CRISPR/Cas9.- Seeking Retrospective Approval for a Study in Resource-Constrained Liberia.- Legal and Ethical Issues of Justice: Global and Local.- Perspectives on Compensation for Serious Adverse Events in Clinical Trials.
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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 Medizinethik
Book SynopsisDieser Band präsentiert einen Überblick über die Medizinethik. Er stellt konzeptuelle und methodische Zugänge zum Fach dar und bietet Einblicke in zentrale Themenfelder. Kurze Einführungen und Lektürefragen zu ausgewählten Texten erleichtern die systematische Einordnung der verschiedenen theoretischen und praktischen Fragestellungen der Medizinethik.Table of ContentsMedizinethik – Eine Einführung.- Teil I: Grundlegende Perspektiven der Medizinethik.- Teil II: Ausgewählte methodische Ansätze.- Teil III: Zentrale Konzepte.- Teil IV: Berufliches Handeln und ethische Expertise.- Teil V: Medizinethik in der Praxis.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Tiergestützte Pädagogik – Soziale Teilhabe –
Book SynopsisLehrkräfte setzen Hunde im Unterricht ein, um die soziale Inklusion zu fördern. Doch welchen Einfluss hat tiergestützte Pädagogik auf die sozialen Strukturen in Schulklassen? Wie lassen sich diese Einflüsse erklären und welche Schlussfolgerungen können für die Förderung von sozialer Inklusion abgeleitet werden? Diese Fragen werden mit einer der ersten empirischen Erhebungen zu Auswirkungen tiergestützter Pädagogik auf die soziale Partizipation von Schüler*innen beantwortet. Der Einfluss von Schulhunden wird gezielt hinsichtlich des Wohlbefindens, der Arbeitsatmosphäre und sozialer Beziehungen zwischen den Lernenden, aber auch zwischen Klasse und Lehrkraft erhoben. Die Analyse der Ergebnisse zeigt: Mithilfe von tiergestützter Pädagogik werden soziale Strukturen positiv beeinflusst und Teilhabemöglichkeiten geschaffen. Vor dem Hintergrund pädagogischer und soziologischer Theorien werden die Ergebnisse interpretiert und erklärt. Leser*innen erhalten praktische Hinweise für die Förderung sozialer und emotionaler Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen sowie für die Vermittlung inklusiver Werte und die Beziehungsgestaltung. Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Schulische Inklusion und soziale Teilhabe.- Empirischer Forschungsstand: tiergestützte Pädagogik.- Theoretischer Forschungsstand: Auswirkungen von Tieren auf Menschen.- Die Schnittstelle: Forschungsdesiderat und Fragen.- Analytischer Rahmen.- Erhebungsdesign.- Auswertungsdesign.- Forschungsethische und datenschutzrechtliche Grundlagen der Arbeit.- Ergebnisdarstellung.- Die Schnittstelle füllen: Interpretation der zentralen Ergebnisse und Einordnung in den Diskurs.- Anwendung der Gütekriterien qualitativer Forschung bezogen auf das Qualifikationsprojekt.- Fazit und Perspektiven für die Forschung.
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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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Springer VS Reproduktionszukünfte
Book SynopsisWho is the father? The medicalization of fatherhood since the 18th century.- Familie im Wandel.- Soziostrukturelle und -kulturelle Einflussfaktoren auf Einstellungsmuster zu assistierter Reproduktion.- Elterliche Verantwortung als moralischer Bewertungsmaßstab reproduktionsmedizinischer Verfahren.- Was war, was ist und was werden könnte: Frauenpaare in der Reproduktionsmedizin in Deutschland Familie im Wandel.- Trans* reproductive justice and assisted reproduction in Germany where are we now, where are we heading?.- Ektogenese Wundermittel für Geschlechtergerechtigkeit?.- Chancen und Risiken der Ektogestation. Eine Betrachtung durch Konzepte der reproduktiven Autonomie und reproduktiver Gerechtigkeit.- Späte (Mutter-)Elternschaft - Medizinethische Perspektiven.- Über den moralischen Status von humanisierten Tieren. Mensch-Tier-Mischwesen: Wann ist dieses wie viel Mensch?.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Darf ich das oder muss ich sogar?: Die
Book SynopsisOb es um Weltarmut oder um Genfood geht, ob um die Erderwärmung oder die Menschenrechte, ob um Flüchtlingspolitik oder die Verteilung medizinischer Güter, - immer stoßen wir auf drängende Fragen der Moral und ihrer Entscheidung. Dieses Buch bietet keine Patentrezepte für richtiges Handeln, führt aber in alle wichtigen Begriffe und Grundlagen ethischen Denkens und in die Werkzeuge zur Entscheidungsfindung ein. Auf der Basis einer praktisch orientierten utilitaristischen Interessensethik findet der Autor originelle Antworten auf viele wichtige Fragen der Gegenwart.Table of ContentsAnstelle eines Vorworts: Schwarzwälder Kirsch und das maximale Glück. Über intrinsische und extrinsische Werte.- I. Welche Moral ist richtig? – Auf dem Weg zu einer utilitaristischen Interessenethik.- II. Erstaunliche Konsequenzen der Interessenethik 1: Einwanderung.- III. Erstaunliche Konsequenzen der Interessenethik 2: Wirtschaftsethik.- IV: Erstaunliche Konsequenzen der Interessenethik 3: Demokratie und Europa.- V: Erstaunliche Konsequenzen der Interessenethik 4: Klimaethik.- VI. Erstaunliche Konsequenzen der Interessenethik 5: Medizinethik.- Anhang.
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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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Brill Foucault and Animals
Book SynopsisFoucault and Animals is the first collection of its kind to explore the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for the question of the animal. Chrulew and Wadiwel bring together essays from emerging and established scholars that illuminate the place of animals and animality within Foucault’s texts, and open up his highly influential range of concepts and methods to different domains of human-animal relations including experimentation, training, zoological gardens, pet-keeping, agriculture, and consumption. Touching on themes such as madness and discourse, power and biopolitics, government and ethics, and sexuality and friendship, the volume takes the fields of Foucault studies and human-animal studies into promising new directions.Table of ContentsForeword List of Contributors Editor’s Introduction: Foucault and Animals, Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Wadiwel Part One: Discourse and Madness 1. Terminal Truths: Foucault’s Animals and the Mask of the Beast, Joseph Pugliese 2. Chinese Dogs and French Scapegoats: An Essay in Zoonomastics, Claire Huot 3. Violence and Animality: An Investigation of Absolute Freedom in Foucault’s History of Madness, Leonard Lawlor 4. The Order of Things: The Human Sciences are the Event of Animality, Saïd Chebili. (Translated by Matthew Chrulew and Jeffrey Bussolini) Part Two: Power and Discipline 5. “Taming the wild profusion of existing things”: A Study of Foucault, Power, and Human/Animal Relationships, Clare Palmer 6. Dressage: Training the Equine Body , Natalie Corinne Hansen 7. Foucault’s Menagerie: Cock Fighting, Bear Baiting, and the Genealogy of Human-Animal Power, Alex Mackintosh Part Three: Science and Biopolitics 8. The Birth of the Laboratory Animal: Biopolitics, Animal Experimentation, and Animal Wellbeing, Robert G. W. Kirk 9. Animals as Biopolitical Subjects, Matthew Chrulew 10. Biopower, Heterogeneous Biosocial Collectivities and Domestic Livestock Breeding, Lewis Holloway and Carol Morris Part Four: Government and Ethics 11. Apum Ordines: Of Bees and Government, Craig McFarlane 12. Animal Friendship as a Way of Life: Sexuality, Petting and Interspecies Companionship, Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel 13. Foucault and the Ethics of Eating, Chloë Taylor Afterword, Paul Patton
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Wageningen Academic Publishers Welfare of pigs: From birth to slaughter
Book SynopsisThe current scientific literature contains reviews and articles on specific aspects of pig production and farm animal welfare. This book is intended to be a reference text that covers all aspects of pig production, on the basis of scientific results. This work contains current, easy-to-understand scientific reviews on animal welfare with over 700 specific references to animal welfare. All aspects of animal welfare with respect to pigs are discussed, from genetic selection and breeding to transportation and slaughter. This work was written by scientific experts renowned for their knowledge and work in the area of pig welfare. Their common goal was to provide an in-depth review and empirical assessment of pig production concepts, knowledge and techniques in use today. Through scientific examples, the authors explain how improving animal welfare increases profitability. This work is intended for academics, researchers, students, animal welfare associations, industry and anyone who is involved in the production chain or concerned about the welfare of pigs being raised on farms.
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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Basics of Biostatistics: A Manual for Medical
Book SynopsisBiostatistics is the branch of statistics that deals with data relating to living organisms. This manual is a comprehensive guide to biostatistics for medical students. Beginning with an overview of bioethics in clinical research, an introduction to statistics, and discussion on research methodology, the following sections cover different statistical tests, data interpretation, probability, and other statistical concepts such as demographics and life tables. The final section explains report writing and applying for research grants and a chapter on ‘measurement and error analysis’ focuses on research papers and clinical trials. Key Points Comprehensive guide to biostatistics for medical students Covers research methodology, statistical tests, data interpretation, probability and more Includes other statistical concepts such as demographics and life tables Explains report writing and grant application in depth Table of ContentsZero Point: Approach Road to Learning Section 1: Bioethics, Evidence-based Medicine Bioethics in Clinical Research Evidence-based Medicine and Levels of Evidence Introduction to Statistics Section 2: Research Methodology and ‘Back to School’ Research Methodology Inside Research Methodology: The Nuts and Bolts Back to School Section 3: Describing the Data Frequency Distribution Measures of Central Tendency Measures of Dispersion (or Variation) Skewness, Moments and Kurtosis Section 4: Probability, Probability Distribution and Sampling Theory of Probability Theoretical Discrete Probability Distributions Theoretical Continuous Probability Distributions Sampling Theory Section 5: Correlation, Regression, Partial and Multiple Correlation and Regression, Theory of Attributes Correlation Regression Analysis Partial and Multiple Correlation and Regression Theory of Attributes Section 6: Statistical Testing Hypothesis Testing Tests of Significance (Z and Student’s ‘T’-Test) F -Test and Analysis of Variance and Covariance C hi-square Test Non-Parametric Tests Which Statistical Test to Use? Special Considerations about Inferential Issues in Biostatistics Measurement and Error Analysis Section 7: Other Statistical Concepts Frequently Used in Research Vital (Demographic) Statistics and Life Tables Time Series Analysis Section 8: Statistical Concepts for Medical Administration Index Numbers Decision Theory Section 9: Report Writing and Applying for Grants Research Report Writing: How to do? Applying for Grants Appendix
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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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Springer Verlag, Singapore Bioethics Across the Globe: Rebirthing Bioethics
Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides where it stands on these issues. In the last chapter, the author proposes discarding the overarching term ‘Global Bioethics’ in favor of the new term, ‘Bioethics Across the Globe (BAG)’, which carries a more universal connotation. This book serves as an excellent tool to help readers understand a different culture and to initiate deep and genuine global dialogue that incorporates local and global thinking on bioethics. Bioethics Across the Globe is a valuable resource for researchers in the field of bioethics/medical ethics interested in adopting cross-cultural approaches, as well as graduate and undergraduate students of healthcare and philosophy.Table of ContentsChapter 1 A Brief History of Bioethics in Japan Chapter 2 Brain-death and organ transplantation: The first Japanese Path Chapter 3 Informed Consent, Familism, and the Nature of Autonomy Chapter 4. End-of-Life Care, Advance Directives, Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and The Goals of Medicine Chapter 5. The Moral Status of the Embryo: The Second Japanese Path Chapter 6. The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Chapter 7. Outcome egalitarianism and opportunity egalitarianism Chapter 8. Research Regulations, Ethics Committees, and Confronting Global Standards Chapter 9. Modern Medical Professionalism Chapter 10. What does it mean to be truly “interdisciplinary”? Chapter 11. Rebirthing Bioethics: Going Global
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural
Book SynopsisThis edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history. Covering a broad range of notable epidemics/pandemics (black death, cholera, Influenza, AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19), the chapters examine the cultural representations of epidemics and pandemics in different contexts, periods, languages, media, and genres. Interdisciplinary in nature and drawing on perspectives from medicine, literature, medical anthropology, philosophy of medicine, and cultural theory, the book investigates and emphasizes the urgent need to reflect on past catastrophes caused by such outbreaks. By delving into cultural history, it re-examines how societies and communities have responded in the past to species-threatening epidemics/pandemics. Sure to be of interest to lay readers as well as students and researchers, this work situates epidemics and pandemics outbreaks within the contexts of culture and narrative, and their complex and layered representation, commenting on intersections of contagion, culture, and community. It offers a cross-cultural, global, and comparative analysis of the trajectories, histories and responses to various epidemics/pandemics that impacted people worldwide.Table of ContentsIntroductionSathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A David Lewis, Brian CallenderI Framing Pandemics/Epidemics1. Epidemic Narrative: Two ParadigmsDilip Kumar DasII Charting Medieval and Early Modern Pestilences2. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a Postpandemic TextLorenz A. Hindrichsen3. “The Invisible Operator”: Plague, Corruption and Conspiracy in Renaissance DramaRebecca WelshmanIII Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Pandemics: Rupture and (Re)configurations of Community4. Three Facets of the Literary Imagination of Cholera: Hysteria, Ridicule, and the Rise of Bacteriology, 1830-1900Aureo Lustosa Guerios5. The Blue Death: Cholera and Reimagined Community in Nineteenth-century HavanaBethany M WadeIV The Spanish Flu and its Afterlives6. Reading Toronto’s Response to Spanish Influenza: The Globe and Daily Star Report on the 1918-20 Pandemic’s Second WaveCheryl Thompson and Lucy Wowk7. Outbreak Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Contagion, Community, and Politics in Myla Goldberg’s Wickett’s Remedy and Thomas Mullen’s The Last Town on EarthPei-chen LiaoV Pandemics/Epidemics in Indian Literature8. Spatial Pathologies: The Biopolitics of Disease, Death, and the Caste-body in Ananthamurthy’s Samskara: A Rite for a Dead ManGaana JayagopalanVI Millennial Pandemics: AIDS, COVID-19 and Beyond9. “No Country for the Infirm”: Reading Angels in America During COVID-19Jessica C. Hume 10. “Bleeding” into Reality: Popular Representations of Ebola and the 2013-2016 Ebola EpidemicRebecca Henderson11. Wearing Masks: Living and Coping “WITH CORONA” in Japan under the PandemicAkinori Hamada12. <3 I AM TRACY: Meme Culture, Coping, and Community during the COVID-19 PandemicJulie M. Powell 13. Comics, Cartoons, and Vignettes: The Graphic Narratives of the COVID- 19 PandemicMonica LalandaVII Health Inequity in the Time of COVID-1914. “their lives just don’t matter?”: “Racing” COVID-19 and Graphic MedicineSathyaraj Venkatesan15. Caste in Epidemics in India: A Historical and Literary ReadingAntara Chatterjee
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Bioethics In Singapore: The Ethical Microcosm
Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of the ways in which the BAC has established an ethical framework for biomedical research in Singapore, following the launch of the Biomedical Sciences Initiative by the Singapore Government. The editors and authors have an intimate knowledge of the working of the BAC, and the focus of the book includes the ways in which international forces have influenced the form and substance of bioethics in Singapore. Together, the authors offer a comparative account of the institutionalisation of biomedical research ethics in Singapore, considered in the wider context of international regulatory efforts. The book reviews the work of the BAC by placing it within the broader cultural, social and political discourses that have emerged in relation to the life sciences since the turn of the 21st century. This book is not primarily intended to be a retrospect or an appraisal of the contribution of the BAC, though this is one aspect of it. Rather, the main intention is to make a substantive contribution to the rapidly emerging field of bioethics. Ethical discussions in the book include consideration of stem cell research and cloning, genetics and research with human participants, and focus on likely future developments as well as the past.Many of the contributors of the book have been personally involved in this work, and hence they write with an authoritative first-hand knowledge that scholars in bioethics and public policy may appreciate. As indicated above, the book also explains the way in which ethics and science — international and local — have interacted in a policy setting. Scholars and policy makers may find the Singaporean experience to be a valuable resource, as the approach has been to make the ethical governance of research in Singapore consistent with international best practice while observing the requirements of a properly localised application of universally accepted principles. In addition, at least three chapters (the first three chapters in particular) are accessible to the lay reader interested in the development of bioethics and biomedical sciences, both inside and outside Singapore, from 2000 (the year in which the BAC was established). Both scholars and interested lay readers are therefore likely to find this publication a valuable reference.Table of ContentsThe Coming of Bioethics to Singapore (W C Ho & S S N Lim); The Impact of the Bioethics Advisory Committee on the Research Community in Singapore (C K M Chan & E T Liu); Engaging the Public: The Role of the Media (A-L Chang & J Tan); Confucian Trust and the Biomedical Regulatory Framework in Singapore (A T Nuyen); The Clinician-Researcher: A Servant of Two Masters? (A V Campbell et al.); The US Model for Oversight of Human Stem Cell Research (L Parham & B Lo); Genetics and Stem Cell Research: Models of International Policy-Making (B Knoppers et al.); Public Engagement and Bioethics Commissions (T H Murray & R S White); Norm-making of Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids in Singapore, the United Kingdom and the International Domain (W C Ho & M Bobrow); How will Future Bioethical Issues Engage Singapore? (J Elliott).
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Bioethics In Singapore: The Ethical Microcosm
Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of the ways in which the BAC has established an ethical framework for biomedical research in Singapore, following the launch of the Biomedical Sciences Initiative by the Singapore Government. The editors and authors have an intimate knowledge of the working of the BAC, and the focus of the book includes the ways in which international forces have influenced the form and substance of bioethics in Singapore. Together, the authors offer a comparative account of the institutionalisation of biomedical research ethics in Singapore, considered in the wider context of international regulatory efforts. The book reviews the work of the BAC by placing it within the broader cultural, social and political discourses that have emerged in relation to the life sciences since the turn of the 21st century. This book is not primarily intended to be a retrospect or an appraisal of the contribution of the BAC, though this is one aspect of it. Rather, the main intention is to make a substantive contribution to the rapidly emerging field of bioethics. Ethical discussions in the book include consideration of stem cell research and cloning, genetics and research with human participants, and focus on likely future developments as well as the past.Many of the contributors of the book have been personally involved in this work, and hence they write with an authoritative first-hand knowledge that scholars in bioethics and public policy may appreciate. As indicated above, the book also explains the way in which ethics and science — international and local — have interacted in a policy setting. Scholars and policy makers may find the Singaporean experience to be a valuable resource, as the approach has been to make the ethical governance of research in Singapore consistent with international best practice while observing the requirements of a properly localised application of universally accepted principles. In addition, at least three chapters (the first three chapters in particular) are accessible to the lay reader interested in the development of bioethics and biomedical sciences, both inside and outside Singapore, from 2000 (the year in which the BAC was established). Both scholars and interested lay readers are therefore likely to find this publication a valuable reference.Table of ContentsThe Coming of Bioethics to Singapore (W C Ho & S S N Lim); The Impact of the Bioethics Advisory Committee on the Research Community in Singapore (C Chan & E Liu); Engaging the Public: The Role of the Media (A-L Chang & J Tan); Confucian Trust and the Biomedical Regulatory Framework in Singapore (A T Nuyen); The Clinician Researcher: A Servant of Two Masters? (A V Campbell et al.); The US Model for Oversight of Human Stem Cell Research (L Parham & B Lo); Genetics and Stem Cell Research: Models of International Policy-Making (B Knoppers et al.); Public Engagement and Bioethics Commissions (T H Murray & R S White); Normmaking of Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids in Singapore, the United Kingdom and the International Domain (W C Ho & M Bobrow); How will Future Bioethical Issues Engage Singapore? (J M Elliott).
£35.15
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Stem Cells: New Frontiers In Science And Ethics
Book SynopsisFast-moving and ever-changing, stem cell science and research presents ongoing ethical and legal challenges in many countries. Each development and innovation throws up new challenges. This is the case even where new developments initially seem to solve old dilemmas. Sometimes it becomes evident that new science does not in fact solve old problems and, for that reason, the ethical issues remain. In recognition of this, this book presents innovative and creative analyses of a range of ethical and legal challenges raised by stem cell research and its potential and actual application.The editors of this collection have brought together experts from ethics and law to bring fresh perspectives on the use of and research on stem cells. The chapters in this collection range across a number of different issues in the debate on stem cells, from the ethical dilemmas of conducting stem cell research to those of the clinical application of stem cell technology. Each chapter gives an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the ethical or legal issues at stake. The early chapters give engaging new expositions on the permissibility of using embryos in stem cell research, in particular challenging our views about how we view and ‘construct’ the embryo in debates regarding stem cells. Later chapters move on to actual and potential clinical uses of stem cells and present novel arguments about these.Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Frontiers in Stem Cell Science and Ethics: Current Technology & Future Challenges (Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan & John Harris); Situating the Embryo in the Stem Cell Debate: The Monopoly of Moral Status in Debate on Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Sorcha Ui Chonnachtaigh); The Construction of the Embryo and Implications for Law (Sheelagh Mcguinness); Legal Issues In Stem Cell Research & Technology: Legal Regulation of Human Stem Cell Technology (Loane Skene); Human Embryos in Stem Cell Research: Property and Recompense (Sarah Devaney); Dissecting the Ethics of Stem Cells: Against The Discarded-Created Distinction in Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Katrien Devolder); Stem Cell Therapies & Benefiting From The Fruits Of Banned Research (Muireann Quigley); Who Do You Call a Hypocrite? Stem Cells & Comparative Hypocritology (Soren Holm); New Science, New Ethical Frontiers?: Stem Cell Research And Same Sex Reproduction (Thomas Douglas, Catherine Harding, Hannah Bourne & Julian Savulescu); The Permissibility of Recruiting Patients with Spinal Cord Injury for Clinical Stem Cell Trials (Anna Pacholczyk & John Harris).
£85.50
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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