Description
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
