wyszukanych pozycji: 26
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Ethics in Hard Times
ISBN: 9781468440249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. There is widespread agreement among large segments of western society that we are living in a period of hard times. At first glance such a belief might seem exceedingly odd. After all, persons in western society find themselves living in a time of unprecedented material abundance. Hunger and disease, evils all too familiar to the members of earlier generations, although far from eradicated from modern life, are plainly on the wane. Persons alive today can look forward to healthier, longer, and more comfortable lives than those of their grand- parents. Nevertheless, the feeling that life today...
There is widespread agreement among large segments of western society that we are living in a period of hard times. At first glance such a belief migh...
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193,19 zł |
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Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People: An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics
ISBN: 9780742541726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Famed bioethicist Arthur Caplan shares his provocative opinions on all things bioethical.
Famed bioethicist Arthur Caplan shares his provocative opinions on all things bioethical.
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79,33 zł |
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Darwin, Marx and Freud: Their Influence on Moral Theory
ISBN: 9781468478525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand- ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience. And this cannot be done- indeed, it is difficult to even make sense of an attempt to do it-without first settling our accounts with Darwin, Marx, and Freud. The legacy of these three thinkers continues to haunt us in other ways as well. Whatever their substantive philosophical differences in other respects, Darwin, Marx, and Freud shared a common, overriding intellectual orientation:...
hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand- ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, an...
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386,41 zł |
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Cont Debates in Bioethics P
ISBN: 9781444337143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century.
Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bi...
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190,25 zł |
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Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine
ISBN: 9781589010147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor--and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental illness, or is mental illness just a myth? Is Alzheimer's really a disease? What is menopause--a biological or a social construction? Historically one can see that health, disease, and illness... In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desir... |
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190,51 zł |
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Due Consideration: Controversy in the Age of Medical Miracles
ISBN: 9780471183440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This volume on biomedicine should be appropriate for a course in bioethics, or as a supplemental reading in a biology course. It outlines technologies and developments in medical research, reproductive technology, genetics, AIDS, and managed care. Ethical issues in the laboratory, in clinical research and in public health are examined and subjects such as cloning, abortion, assisted suicide, and needle exchange programmes are examined.
This volume on biomedicine should be appropriate for a course in bioethics, or as a supplemental reading in a biology course. It outlines technologies...
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253,75 zł |
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If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?
ISBN: 9780253208682 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." --Health and Canadian Society "Insightful and thought-provoking.... As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly... we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." --The Washington Post "Caplan's views are important and instructive.... This] book represents some of his best work." --New England Journal of Medicine "Caplan's book] is thought provoking, insightful, and well argued. I recommend it highly."--The Journal of the American Medical Association ..". a generously... "An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." --Health and Canadian Society "Insightful and thought-provoking....... |
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75,36 zł |
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Smart Mice, Not So Smart People: An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics
ISBN: 9780742541719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart People and you'll know what Art Caplan thinks. But this assortment of pithy, provocative opinions on all things bioethical does more than simply give you a piece of the author's mind it also invites and even dares you to make up your own mind. In his typical style, Caplan one of the most sought-after bioethicists of our time provokes discussion on issues at the center of the new genetics, cloning in the laboratory and in the media, stem cell...
What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart Peo...
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95,20 zł |
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Compelled Compassion: Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns
ISBN: 9781461267492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents refused to consent to surgery or intravenous feeding. The hospital unsuccessfully sought a court order to force treatment, and appeals to higher courts also failed. The child, identified as Baby Doe by the news media, subsequently died. The events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by the Reagan administration, the courts, and Congress that culminated in a federal policy that makes failure to treat newborns with disabilities a form of...
In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents ...
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193,19 zł |
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When Medicine Went Mad
ISBN: 9780896032354 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In When Medicine Went Mad one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an problems relevant disputes-
In When Medicine Went Mad one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an problems relevant disputes-
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256,71 zł |
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Getting to Good: Research Integrity in the Biomedical Sciences
ISBN: 9783319513577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 583 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Getting to Good - Research Integrity in the Biomedical Sciences is a major contribution to the literature on bioethics and will serve as an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, administrators and professionals interested in research ethics and integrity.
Getting to Good - Research Integrity in the Biomedical Sciences is a major contribution to the literature on bioethics and will serve as an invaluable...
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154,54 zł |
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When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781461267515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The importance of these issues to contemporary bioethical disputes-particularly in the thorny areas of medical genetics, human experimentation, and euthanasia-are explored in detail and with sensitivity.
In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine pro...
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193,19 zł |
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The Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics at the End of Life
ISBN: 9781591023982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Three leading medical ethicists use the Shiavo case as a launching point for this even-handed, in-depth examination of the complex and controversial issues surrounding the refusal of medical nutrition and hydration.
Three leading medical ethicists use the Shiavo case as a launching point for this even-handed, in-depth examination of the complex and controversial i...
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90,51 zł |
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Getting to Good: Research Integrity in the Biomedical Sciences
ISBN: 9783030095987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 583 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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154,54 zł |
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Compelled Compassion: Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns
ISBN: 9780896032248 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents refused to consent to surgery or intravenous feeding. The hospital unsuccessfully sought a court order to force treatment, and appeals to higher courts also failed. The child, identified as Baby Doe by the news media, subsequently died. The events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by the Reagan administration, the courts, and Congress that culminated in a federal policy that makes failure to treat newborns with disabilities a form of...
In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents ...
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386,41 zł |
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Vaccination Ethics and Policy: An Introduction with Readings
ISBN: 9780262544122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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236,80 zł |
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The Ethics of Sport: Essential Readings
ISBN: 9780190210984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sport is often thought of as simply "games," but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting city-wide riots, uniting countries, permanently injuring youth, revolutionizing views about race, gender and class, and producing several of the most successful global industries. Reports of ethical crises in athletics are constant fodder for popular attention, whether performance enhancing drugs in baseball, corruption in college athletics, the epidemic of brain damage among NFL players, and others too numerous to mention. As a proxy for social...
Sport is often thought of as simply "games," but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting ...
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661,19 zł |
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The Ethics of Sport: Essential Readings
ISBN: 9780190210991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sport is often thought of as simply -games, - but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting city-wide riots, uniting countries, permanently injuring youth, revolutionizing views about race, gender and class, and producing several of the most successful global industries. Reports of ethical crises in athletics are constant fodder for popular attention, whether performance enhancing drugs in baseball, corruption in college athletics, the epidemic of brain damage among NFL players, and others too numerous to mention. As a proxy for...
Sport is often thought of as simply -games, - but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting...
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213,43 zł |
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Genetic Counseling: Ethical Challenges and Consequences
ISBN: 9781138524217 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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678,70 zł |
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The Ethics of Organ Transplants
ISBN: 9781573922241 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No one argues the need for transplants. The debate centers on how to satisfy the great need for healthy organs. Advances in medical technology and science have made organ procurement, or the search and transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another, a very important issue. Since the demand for healthy organs far exceeds the supply, many questions enter this debate, blending medicine with politics, ethics, research, religion, and other concerns. How are we to meet the need? Can we do so and still respect personal ethics and religious convictions? Can organs be obtained without turning...
No one argues the need for transplants. The debate centers on how to satisfy the great need for healthy organs. Advances in medical technology and sci...
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98,74 zł |