The Price of Perfection

Maxwell J Mehlman

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• Few would question the necessity of artificial limbs for amputees. But what of surgery to lengthen the legs of children who are merely shorter than av... Lees meer

Trust and Integrity in Biomedical Research

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• Highly Commended in the Basis of Medicine, 2011 BMA Medical Book Awards. British Medical Association News of financial entanglements among biomedical ... Lees meer

The Cultures of Caregiving

• Paperback | Engels | Bioethics
• As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term... Lees meer

Bioethics in the Clinic

Grant R Gillett

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title What is so special about human life? What is the relationship between flesh and blood and... Lees meer

The Double-Edged Helix

Joseph S. Alper

• Paperback | Engels | Bioethics
• Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 from Choice Magazine The Double-Edged Helix explores the impact of recent genetic discoveries on bo... Lees meer

Reprogenetics

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• From the cloning of Dolly the sheep a decade ago to more recent advances in embryonic stem cell research, new genetic technologies have often spurred ... Lees meer

Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care

• Paperback | Engels | Bioethics
• Klugman and Dalinis initiate a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States.... Lees meer

Neonatal Bioethics

John D Lantos, William L Meadow

• Paperback | Engels | Bioethics
• Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interco... Lees meer

Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of Death

John P Lizza

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• In this riveting and timely work, John P. Lizza presents the first comprehensive analysis of personhood and humanity in the context of defining death.... Lees meer

Bioethics at the Movies

• Paperback | Engels | Bioethics
• Bioethics at the Movies explores the ways in which popular films engage basic bioethical concepts and concerns. Twenty-one philosophically grounded es... Lees meer

Bioethics at the Movies

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• Bioethics at the Movies explores the ways in which popular films engage basic bioethical concepts and concerns. Twenty-one philosophically grounded es... Lees meer

Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• Highly Commended, Basis of Medicine, 2010 British Medical Association Book Awards The United States has the first and the farthest-reaching newborn ge... Lees meer

Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• Klugman and Dalinis initiate a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States.... Lees meer

Designing Our Descendants

• Paperback | Bioethics
• The prospect of inheritable genetic modifications for therapeutic or enhancement purposes raises complex scientific, ethical and regulatory issues. Th... Lees meer

Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares

Maxwell J Mehlman

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• What will happen when technology allows us to direct our own evolution? Transhumanists advocate for the development and distribution of technologies t... Lees meer

Medicine and the Market

Daniel Callahan, Angela A Wasunna

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to in... Lees meer

The Cultures of Caregiving

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term... Lees meer

Genetic Ties and the Family

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• Genetic Ties and the Family brings together experts in history, law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, social work, and sociology to explore the tension... Lees meer

Ethics Consultation

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• In the clinical setting, questions of medical ethics raise a host of perplexing problems, often complicated by conflicting perspectives and the need t... Lees meer

Richard Artschwager!

Jennifer R Gross

• Hardcover | Engels | Bioethics
• For nearly sixty years, Richard Artschwager (b. 1923) has undertaken an unrelenting investigation of art's ability to mediate contemporary experience ... Lees meer