Overviewing the new field of 'liquid biopsy' for the management of cancer patients, this book addresses the clinical relevance and technical aspects of liquid biopsy analysis. This represents a turning point by providing a tool for serial monitoring of disease, a 'hand lens' to follow molecular changes in tumor development and progression.

This book draws a connection between ethics and research across social sciences, philosophy, medical sciences and legal sciences, and demonstrates that any research activity needs to be conducted by means of rules deriving from the field of ethics. Although having a common core, such rules assume different characteristics depending on the branch of science, as the contributions on philosophy, medicine, dentistry, law, biotechnology, robotics and architecture highlight. It also investigates the more complex ethical concerns and places them in a larger, technological context. Starting with an...