wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Why the Church Needs Bioethics: A Guide to Wise Engagement with Life's Challenges
ISBN: 9780310328520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a world where incredible medical technologies are possible ... does "can do" mean "should do"? Why the Church Needs Bioethics helps you understand and constructively engage bioethical challenges with the resources of Christian wisdom and ministry. Three rich and true-to-life case studies illustrate the urgency of such bioethical issues as reproductive and genetic technologies, abortion, forgoing treatment, assisted suicide, stem cell research, and human enhancement technologies. Leading Christian voices bring biblical and theological perspective to bear on the incredible medical... In a world where incredible medical technologies are possible ... does "can do" mean "should do"? Why the Church Needs Bioethics helps you understa... |
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117,89 zł |
Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God
ISBN: 9780802867643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God's image have wreaked devastation throughout history -- for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere. In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God's image. He discusses in detail all of the biblical references to the image of God, interacts extensively with other work on the topic, and documents how misunderstandings of it have been so problematic. People made according to God's image, Kilner says,...
Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God's image have wreaked devastation throughout history -- for example, slavery in t...
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183,41 zł |
Cutting-Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technologies and Trends
ISBN: 9780802849595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a faith-based evaluation of recent technologies and trends in bioethics--including the current debate surrounding stem cell research. Fifteen noted scholars and medical practitioners discuss some of today's new and controversial work in biomedicine--xenotransplantation, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and more--and evaluate from a Christian perspective both the science and the ethical questions it raises. Designed to orient general readers to the current state of biomedical research, Cutting-Edge Bioethics is must...
This book from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a faith-based evaluation of recent technologies and trends in bioethics--including ...
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111,38 zł |
Basic Questions on Healthcare: What Should Good Care Include?
ISBN: 9780825430817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Cutting-edge medical ethics issues are addressed by nationally recognized experts. The BioBasics Series confronts the maze of challenging questions raised by twenty-first-century bio-technology with biblical responses and uncompromising respect for all human life.
Cutting-edge medical ethics issues are addressed by nationally recognized experts. The BioBasics Series confronts the maze of challenging quest...
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21,91 zł |
Life on the Line: Ethics, Aging, Ending Patients' Lives, and Allocating Vital Resources
ISBN: 9780802806307 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In today's society, where life and death are increasingly becoming matters of choice, life is on the line. Kilner explores topics such as "active" and "passive" euthanasia, suicide, quality of life, living wills, and the criteria for deciding who will receive access to vital treatments that cannot be provided to all. Contrasts a Biblically-grounded ethics with other ethical approaches commonly employed today.
In today's society, where life and death are increasingly becoming matters of choice, life is on the line. Kilner explores topics such as "active" and...
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146,33 zł |
Basic Questions on End of Life Decisions: How Do We Know What Is Right?
ISBN: 9780825430701 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cutting-edge medical ethics issues are addressed by nationally recognized experts. The BioBasics Series confronts the maze of challenging questions with biblical responses and uncompromising respect for all human life.
Cutting-edge medical ethics issues are addressed by nationally recognized experts. The BioBasics Series confronts the maze of challenging questions wi...
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34,90 zł |
Dignity & Dying: A Christian Appraisal
ISBN: 9780802842329 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twenty leading experts in the bioethics debate here engage matters of dignity and dying from a Christian perspective. The book begins with essays by David Schiedermayer, Arlene Miller, and Gregory Waybright that root the book in the experience of dying itself. This is followed by contributions from Nigel Cameron, John Dunlop, Marsha Fowler, and Allen Verhey on the topics that provide the guiding vision for approaches to dignity and dying: autonomy, death, suffering, and faithfulness. Four of the most pressing end-of-life challenges-forgoing treatment, medical futility, definition of death,...
Twenty leading experts in the bioethics debate here engage matters of dignity and dying from a Christian perspective. The book begins with essays by D...
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120,12 zł |
The Reproduction Revolution: A Christian Appraisal of Sexuality, Reproductive Technologies, and the Family
ISBN: 9780802847157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A challenging look at today's most hotly debated issues in bioethics. Within the high-paced, highly controverted field of bioethics, the most hotly debated issues center on sexuality, reproductive technology, and the family. This new volume from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a thought-provoking appraisal of the ethical dimension of the reproductive revolution from a Christian perspective. Thirty scholars and medical practitioners discuss some of the most pressing topics related to human reproduction, including: the moral status of embryos; the use of donor eggs and...
A challenging look at today's most hotly debated issues in bioethics. Within the high-paced, highly controverted field of bioethics, the most hotly de...
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137,59 zł |
Functional Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications
ISBN: 9780081016213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Global demand for low cost, efficient and sustainable energy production is ever increasing. Driven by recent discoveries and innovation in the science and technology of materials, applications based on functional materials are becoming increasingly important. Functional materials for sustainable energy applications provides an essential guide to the development and application of these materials in sustainable energy production. Part one reviews functional materials for solar power, including silicon-based, thin-film, and dye sensitized photovoltaic solar cells, thermophotovoltaic device...
Global demand for low cost, efficient and sustainable energy production is ever increasing. Driven by recent discoveries and innovation in the science...
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1105,99 zł |
Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes?
ISBN: 9780802844286 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fueled by rapid advances in the availability of genetic information and the capability to intervene in response to it, a genetic revolution is now underway that has profound implications for all spheres of life. But the ethical issues raised-and sometimes overlooked-by this revolution are glaring. This timely volume, written by scholars and practitioners at the forefront of genetic research-including Francis Collins, Elizabeth Thomson, C. Christopher Hook, Arthur Dyck, Allen Verhey, V. Elving Anderson, Marsha Fowler, and Charles Colson-will help readers assess from a Christian perspective the...
Fueled by rapid advances in the availability of genetic information and the capability to intervene in response to it, a genetic revolution is now und...
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128,86 zł |
The Changing Face of Health Care: A Christian Appraisal of Managed Care, Resource Allocation and Patient-Caregiver Relationships
ISBN: 9780802845337 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The book opens with a look at people's actual experience of heath care today, from four different perspectives. Next, the volume addresses foundational questions, including the nature of medicine, nursing, and justice. Surveyed next are the changing economics of health care as well as the impact of these changes on such areas as mental health care, long-term care, health care for minorities, and legal malpractice. The dosing section of the book often several alternative models for health care funding and delivery that reflect Christian values.
The book opens with a look at people's actual experience of heath care today, from four different perspectives. Next, the volume addresses foundationa...
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128,86 zł |