The term bioethics was first used in the early 1970s by biologists who were concerned about ethical implications of genetic and ecological interventions, but was soon applied to all aspects of biomedical ethics, including health care delivery, research, and public policy. This book features over 400 entries on the significant to the field.
Provides a comprehensive exploration of bioethical issues outside of the dominant American and western European model. Using the Philippines as a case study, this title addresses how a developing country's economy, religion, and culture affect the bioethical landscape for doctors, patients, families, and the society as a whole.
Emphasising on human goods such as life, health, friendship, and knowledge and the wrongness of intentionally turning against them, the book provides a valuable approach to controversial bioethical questions at the beginning and end of life. Its approach contrasts with that of the dominant bioethical theories of utilitarianism and principlism.
Emphasising on human goods such as life, health, friendship, and knowledge and the wrongness of intentionally turning against them, the book provides a valuable approach to controversial bioethical questions at the beginning and end of life. Its approach contrasts with that of the dominant bioethical theories of utilitarianism and principlism.
Helps you to understand reasons behind support of and disdain for interspecies research in such areas as chimerism, hybridization, cross-species embryo transfer, and transgenics. This title highlights two claims critics make against early interspecies studies: that the research can violate human dignity and that it can lead to procreation.
Provides contributions from a range of disciplines that mine the intersection of the secular and the religious, the medical and the moral, to unearth the ethical and clinical implications. This title includes an examination of how a theological anthropology can help us better understand health care, social policy, and science.
Provides contributions from a range of disciplines that mine the intersection of the secular and the religious, the medical and the moral, to unearth the ethical and clinical implications. This title includes an examination of how a theological anthropology can help us better understand health care, social policy, and science.
Examines the history, state, and future of "concepts" in medicine. This title shows the evolutionary arc of medical concepts from the Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (ca 150 ce) who proposed that "the best doctor is also a philosopher", to contemporary discussions of the genome and morality.
An introduction to complicated bioethical issues from both Jewish and Catholic perspectives. It takes the reader through methodology in Roman Catholic moral theology and compares and contrasts it with methodology as it is practiced in Jewish ethics.
