Chasing Tourette's: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self

Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 145
• This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded over the last thirty years. Des... Lees meer

Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 143
• This book addresses new and evolving thorny issues in clinical ethics consultation. It is a book for our time. The contributors provide essential crit... Lees meer

Altering Nature

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 97
• B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny Nearly every week the general public is treated to an announcement of another actual or poten... Lees meer

Handbook of Bioethics:

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 78
• In general, the history of virtue theory is well-documented (Sherman, 1997; O'Neill, 1996). Its relationship to medicine is also recorded in our work ... Lees meer

Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 139
• This book offers new essays exploring concepts and applications of nonideal theory in bioethics. Nonideal theory refers to an analytic approach to mor... Lees meer

Altering Nature

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 98
• B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny In this second volume of the "Altering Nature" project, we situate specific religious and pol... Lees meer

Sexuality and Medicine

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 23
• It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and wa... Lees meer

Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 144
• This open access book offers insights in short- and long-term experiences from families with bone marrow transplantations between minor siblings. It i... Lees meer

Islam and Biomedicine

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 137
• This book showcases multidisciplinary research at the intersection of the Islamic tradition and biomedicine. Within this broad area of scholarship, th... Lees meer

Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 50
• Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 19... Lees meer

Physician-Assisted Suicide: What Are the Issues?

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 67
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues? offers a detailed discussion of recent supreme court rulings that have had an impact on the contempor... Lees meer

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 44
• Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine. ... Lees meer

Articulating Intersex: A Crisis at the Intersection of Scientific Facts and Social Ideals

Natalie Delimata

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 131
• This book explores the ethical dilemma clinicians may face when disclosing a diagnosis of atypical sex. The moment of disclosure reveals an epistemic ... Lees meer

Reflections on Medical Ethics

Jean-Pierre Cléro

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 138
• This book questions the notions of person, personality, dignity, and other connected notions such as (informed) consent, and discusses new perspective... Lees meer

Medical Research Ethics: Challenges in the 21st Century

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 132
• This book provides a current review of Medical Research Ethics on a global basis. The book contains chapters that are historically and philosophically... Lees meer

Covenants of Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 77
• The intense fervor of a Mississippi Methodist preacher, the meticulous reasoning of an Oxford logician, the dogged persistence of a head longshoreman,... Lees meer

Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

• Paperback | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | Catholic Studies in Bioethics | nr. 127
• This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research. The Roman ... Lees meer

Disease and Diagnosis

William E Stempsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 63
• The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Cente... Lees meer

Confucian Bioethics

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine
• This volume explores Confucian views regarding the human body, health, virtue, suffering, suicide, euthanasia, `human drugs, ' human experimentation, ... Lees meer

Sexuality and Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 23
• It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and wa... Lees meer

The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 128
• This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clin... Lees meer

Competency

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 39
• Some conferences produce proceedings, others an inspiration to labor, which finally leads to a published work. Such has been the case with regard to t... Lees meer

Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 60
• Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for ... Lees meer

The Vulnerability of the Human World

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy and Medicine | nr. 148
• This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment. O... Lees meer