Neuroethics

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Explores the ethical, legal, and societal issues arising from brain imaging, psychopharmacology, and other new developments in neuroscience. Neuroscie... Lees meer

Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children

Timothy F Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A critical review of the debate over the still-hypothetical possibility of prenatal intervention by parents to select the sexual orientation of their ... Lees meer

Why Have Children?

Christine Overall

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified--and if so, how. In contemporary Western society, people a... Lees meer

Pricing Life

Peter A Ubel

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A rational look at health care rationing, from ethical, economic, psychological, and clinical perspectives. Although managed health care is a hot topi... Lees meer

Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics

Timothy F Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• This textbook for instruction in biomedical research ethics can also serve as a valuable reference for professionals in the field of bioethics. The 14... Lees meer

The Ethics of Protocells

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Experts explore the potential benefits, risks, and moral aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. ... Lees meer

Thieves of Virtue

Tom Koch

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An argument against the "lifeboat ethic" of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. Bioe... Lees meer

Pragmatic Bioethics

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies th... Lees meer

Bioethics

• Paperback | Basic Bioethics
• Contemporary bioethicists and scholars of ancient philosophy explore the import of classical ethics on such pressing bioethical concerns. Lees meer

The Myth of the Moral Brain

Harris Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it. Throughout history, humanity has been seen a... Lees meer

Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care

Holly Fernandez Lynch

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse to provide certain services for reasons of consc... Lees meer

Specimen Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in research using human biospecimens. Advances in medicine ... Lees meer

Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics

Timothy F Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• This textbook for instruction in biomedical research ethics can also serve as a valuable reference for professionals in the field of bioethics. The 14... Lees meer

DNA and the Criminal Justice System

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Is DNA technology the ultimate diviner of guilt or the ultimate threat to civil liberties? Over the past decade, DNA has been used to exonerate hundre... Lees meer

In the Wake of Terror

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Timely and provocative essays on bioethical questions brought to the forefront by the bioterrorist threat. The war on terrorism and the threat of chem... Lees meer

Rationing Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Philip M Rosoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A provocative argument that the best way to deliver high-quality healthcare to Americans is to institute a comprehensive and fair system of rationing.... Lees meer

The Censor's Hand

Carl E Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An argument that the system of boards that license human-subject research is so fundamentally misconceived that it inevitably does more harm than good... Lees meer

Engendering International Health

• Paperback | Basic Bioethics
• Research on gender inequity in international health in both low- and high-income countries. Lees meer

Bioethics

• Hardcover | Basic Bioethics
• Contemporary bioethicists and scholars of ancient philosophy explore the import of classical ethics on pressing bioethical concerns. Lees meer

Thieves of Virtue

Tom Koch

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An argument against the "lifeboat ethic" of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. Bioe... Lees meer

Human Subjects Research Regulation

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects. The current framework for the ... Lees meer

Looking Within

Deborah (Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology)

• Paperback | Basic Bioethics
• An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individu... Lees meer

Genetics and Life Insurance

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Experts discuss the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of genetic testing in determining eligibility for life insurance. Insurance... Lees meer

The Ethics of Protocells

Bedau Mark

• Paperback | Basic Bioethics
• Experts explore the potential benefits, risks, and moral aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. Lees meer