Ethical Issues in Family Medicine
by Ronald J. Christie and C.Barry Hoffmaster
While ethicists have directed much attention to controversial biomedical issues--including euthanasia, abortion, and genetic engineering--they have largely ignored the less obvious, but more pervasive, everyday ethical problems faced by family physicians. Ethical Issues in Family Medicine addresses these problems, offering an ethics that reflects the distinctive features of family practice, and helping family physicians to appreciate the extent to which ethical issues influence their practice.
Scientifically grounded, this book takes on key ethical issues surrounding human cloning and the future of genetic engineering.
Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication (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 the results of a five-year interdisciplinary project, it explores the unsolved ethical and social q...
An important new book for all those involved in the conduct, teaching, learning, regulation, support or critique of animal-based research. For perhaps the first time, all the major issues in the animal experimentation debate are introduced in the same volume. This book covers the history and ethics of experimentation, discusses the moral status of animals and the obligations of researchers and introduces alternatives to animal research. Although aimed at life-science students, its clarity of sty...
Ethics and Social Concern (Ethics & Social Concern, #2)
Islamic Bioethics: Current Issues And Challenges (Intercultural Dialogue In Bioethics, #2)
Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variety of perspectives and debates on how Islamic societies deal with the ethical dilemmas raised by biomedicine and new technologies. The book is a 'constructive dialogue' between contributors selected from a multidisciplinary group of Muslim and non-Muslim scholars from different Islamic countries. The 11 chapters illuminate the diversity and complexity of the issues discussed in Islamic bioethics and pave the way to a better understanding of Islamic bioethic...
Medizin- Und Bioethik (Ethik Transdisziplinar, #1) (Ethik Transdisziplinaer, #1)
Diese umfassende und interdisziplinare Bestandsaufnahme zur Medizin- und Bioethik will den Denkanstoss liefern zu einer gemeinsamen politischen, sozialen, rechtlich und naturwissenschaftlich verankerten Verortung des kunftigen Gesundheitswesens. Der Praxisbezug fur das Wohl des Einzelnen steht im Vordergrund. Dabei ergeben sich Spannungsfelder, dramatische wirtschaftsethische Fragen im Verhaltnis von Forschung, Verantwortung und Haftung. Transplantation, Patientenverfugung, Sterben und Tod, Mitt...
Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics - A Practical Guide for Professionals
by William A. Nelson
The rural community presents not only distinct health care delivery challenges but also ethical problems for clinicians and administrators of small, rural health care facilities. Health care delivered in a rural context-in closely knit, tightly interdependent small community settings-poses unique ethical considerations for clinical practitioners. For example, a provider in a resource-poor rural setting may be faced with treating a family member, friend, business associate, or neighbor, since the...
Der Band enthalt Beitrage von Philosophen, Juristen und Theologen aus den Niederlanden, Polen, der Slowakischen Republik, Ungarn und Deutschland zu Themen des Medizinrechts und der Medizinethik. Diese Beitrage sind im Rahmen des "Arbeitskreises fur Ethik und Wissenschaftstheorie der Medizin in Ostmitteleuropa" entstanden, der auf einer Kooperationsvereinbarung des Interdisziplinaren Zentrums fur Ethik an der Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) und des Instituts fur Geschichte und Ethik...
Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech
by C Edwin Baker and Nicholas F. Gallicchio
Although an inchoate liberty theory of freedom of speech has deep roots in Supreme Court decisions and political history, it has been overshadowed in judicial decisions and scholarly commentary by the marketplace of ideas theory. In this book, Baker critiques the assumptions required by the marketplace of ideas theory and develops the liberty theory, showing its philosophical soundness, persuasiveness, and ability to protect free speech. He argues that First Amendment liberty rights (as well as...
Award-winning physician Philip C. Hébert creates a brave and intimate portrait of the complex ethical imperatives at the heart of good medicine: doctors do not have all the answers; patients must be heard; and their needs, desires, fears, and experiences must be reflected in how practitioners look after them. Medical science continues to advance to previously unimagined heights in its diagnostic and treatment capabilities. With these advances, however, come unexpected ethical dilemmas for prac...
Currently, humans lack the cognitive and moral capacities to prevent the widespread suffering associated with collective risks, like pandemics, climate change, or even asteroids. In Moral Enhancement and the Public Good, Parker Crutchfield argues for the controversial and initially counterintuitive claim that everyone should be administered a substance that makes us better people. Furthermore, he argues that it should be administered without our knowledge. That is, moral bioenhancement should be...
Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics (Renewing Philosophy)
by Keekok Lee
This ground-breaking book explores the issues raised in the modern fields of genetic research and biotechnology. As philosophers try to make sense of the issues, the author primarily examines these from an ontological rather than an ethical/political standpoint. The book examines the two great revolutions in genetics in the last century - the development of classical Mendelian theory and the discovery of and research into DNA - and the respective technologies generated by these fundamental disco...
Traces the historical development of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide and then explores the arguments on both sides of the issue, ending with a chapter detailing the author's own opinion against. Manning trained as an M.D. before entering the seminary.
Living-With Wisdom explores the way in which ancient Greek models of philosophy as an attempt to live ‘the good life’ can and should be realised through the practice of permaculture. Following the thought of Plato and Aristotle, the author places the achievement of wisdom and fulfilment at the centre of the good life, identifying these with the achievement of a complex admixture of virtues, which are dependent on an appreciation of goodness itself. The book then examines the manner in which per...