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  • Ethics of the Sciences

    Shaping the Future of Academic Practices

    Edited by Jan Hinrichsen, Kilian Bizer, Christoph Hönnige, Catrin Misselhorn, Thomas A.C. Reydon, Silke Schicktanz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book sketches the outlines of a novel approach to the ethics of the sciences that aims to improve the connections between science and society in a nuanced and interdisciplinary way. The contributors collectively propose to elevate the ethics of science from an ancillary field that mainly provides services to the sciences to a field that is in its own right a hub of knowledge, ... Read more

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  • Genetics as Social Practice

    Transdisciplinary Views on Science and Culture

    by Barbara Prainsack, Silke Schicktanz, Gabriele Werner-Felmayer ...
    Recent debate about the ethical and regulatory dimensions of developments in genetics has sidelined societal and cultural aspects, which arguably are indispensable for a nuanced understanding of the complexities of the topic. Regulatory and ethical debates benefit from taking seriously this ’third dimension’ of culture, which often determines the configurations and limits of the space within which ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Preventing Dementia?

    Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age

    Edited by Silke Schicktanz, Annette Leibing ...
    Series Book 7 - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
    The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a ... Read more

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  • Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany

    by Aviad E. Raz, Silke Schicktanz ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is a comprehensive, empirically-grounded exploration of the relationship between bioethics, culture, and the perspective of being affected. It provides a new outlook on how complex “bioethical” issues become questions of everyday life. The authors focus on two contexts, genetic testing and end-of-life care, to locate and demonstrate emerging themes of responsibility, such as self ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Teaching Ethics in Organ Transplantation

    Cases and Movies

    Edited by Silke Schicktanz, Claudia Wiesemann ...
    Organ transplantation allows modern surgeons to give "new life" to chronically ill patients. At the same time, the new opportunities raise ethical questions concerning human identity and the definition of the human body. These concerns do not play out the same in all cultures or in every situation. This collection of 30 case studies illustrates the range of global and local, ethical, social, and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication

    Edited by Ulrik Kihlbom, Mats G. Hansson, Silke Schicktanz ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels.Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication examines the introduction of new types of health risk information based on faster, cheaper and larger sets of genetic or genomic analysis. Synthesizing ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Germany and Israel

    Edited by Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz, Tulsi Patel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the field of social and cultural sciences, bioethics, law as well as psychology and provides critical-reflective comparative analysis of the socio ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Planning Later Life

    Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies

    Edited by Mark Schweda, Larissa Pfaller, Kai Brauer, Frank Adloff, Silke Schicktanz ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    This book examines the relevance of modern medicine and healthcare in shaping the lives of elderly persons and the practices and institutions of ageing societies. Combining individual and social dimensions, Planning Later Life discusses the ethical, social, and political consequences of increasing life expectancies and demographic change in the context of biomedicine and public health.By focusing ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • The Politics of Life Itself

    Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

    by Nikolas Rose ...
    Series series In-Formation
    For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Enhancing Human Capacities

    Edited by Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Kahane ...
    Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives.Presents a rich range of perspectives on enhancement from world leading ethicists and scientists from Europe and North AmericaThe most comprehensive volume yet ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex, and Health Research

    Edited by John Oliffe, Lorraine J. Greaves ...
    This book is the first textbook dedicated to critically examining gender and sex in study designs, methods, and analysis in health research. In order to produce ethical, accurate, and effective research findings it is vital to integrate both sex (biological characteristics) and gender (socially constructed factors) into any health study. This book draws attention to some of the methodological ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

    by Mary Ann Cutter ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the development of clinical curricula.In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD