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  • The Routledge Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by John D. Arras, Elizabeth Fenton, Rebecca Kukla ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics. The volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by globalization, health disparities, and rapidly advancing technologies. Bioethics has begun a turn toward a systematic concern with social justice, population health, and public policy. While also covering more ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Emergency Ethics

    Public Health Preparedness and Response

    Edited by Bruce Jennings, John D. Arras, Drue H. Barrett, Barbara A. Ellis ...
    Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice. The book fills a gap in the existing public health ethics literature by providing a comprehensive ethical conception of emergency preparedness as ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Life Before Birth

    The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses, Second Edition

    by Bonnie Steinbock ...
    Life Before Birth provides a coherent framework for addressing bioethical issues in which the moral status of embryos and fetuses is relevant. It is based on the "interest view" which ascribes moral standing to beings with interests, and connects the possession of interests with the capacity for conscious awareness or sentience. The theoretical framework is applied to ethical and legal topics, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Good Doctor

    A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics

    by Barron H. Lerner ...
    The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health careAs a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Assisted Death in Europe and America

    Four Regimes and Their Lessons

    by Guenter Lewy ...
    Advances in medical treatment now enable physicians to prolong life to a previously unknown extent, however in many instances these new techniques mean not the saving of life but prolonging the act of dying. In the eyes of many, medical technology has run out of control and contributes to unnecessary suffering. Hence the demand has arisen that patients should be entitled to choose death when pain ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Blood On My Hands - A Surgeon At War

    by Craig Jurisevic ...
    An Australian surgeon's extraordinary story of courage and conflict. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Global Health and Global Health Ethics

    Edited by Solomon Benatar, Gillian Brock ...
    What can be done about the poor state of global health? How are global health challenges intimately linked to the global political economy and to issues of social justice? What are our responsibilities and how can we improve global health? Global Health and Global Health Ethics addresses these questions from the perspective of a range of disciplines, including medicine, philosophy and the social ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Embryo Politics

    Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies

    by Thomas Banchoff ...
    Since the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about their religious, moral, legal, and practical implications. National governments make rules that ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • How Safe Is Safe Enough?

    Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology

    by Philip G. Peters, Jr. ...
    This book offers a comprehensive roadmap for determining when and how to regulate risky reproductive technologies on behalf of future children. First, it provides three benchmarks for determining whether a reproductive practice is harmful to the children it produces. This framework synthesizes and extends past efforts to make sense of our intuitive, but paradoxical, belief that reproductive ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Match

    Savior Siblings and One Family's Battle to Heal Their Daughter

    by Beth Whitehouse ...
    My Sister’s Keeper in nonfiction: a family’s real-life struggle to cure their daughter by creating her genetic matchKatie Trebing was diagnosed at three months oldwith Diamond Blackfan anemia, a rare form of anemia that prevents bone marrow from producing red blood cells. Even with a lifetime of monthly blood transfusions, she faced a poor prognosis. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Beth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Etiquette of Eating & Personal Hygiene from Islamic Perspective

    by Muhammad Vandestra ...
    The religion of Islam is a holistic way of life. It is not separated into physical, emotional and spiritual areas; rather it teaches that all aspects of life combine to fulfil one purpose. What is that purpose and is it possible to understand the meaning of life? Yes it is! Islam makes it very clear that the purpose of life is to worship our Creator, the One True God. What gives meaning to our ... Read more

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