Description
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
