Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Ethics

La stabilita della funzione e stato il concetto di riferimento da C. Bernard ad oggi, sia per la biologia che per la medicina clinica. Solo di recente, pero', due fisici illustri, Gregoire Nicolis ed Ilya Prigogine, Premio Nobel per la Fisica nel 1978, hanno offerto una descrizione completa della stabilita della variabile, e pertanto di uno stato funzionale, in termini cosi' chiari, precisi ed esaurienti, da poter essere applicata anche in ambito biologico. I concetti, prima confusi, su cui basavamo il nostro pensare, ora si dispongono secondo un senso accettabile, e dal significato appena...

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality")

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at...

In only four decades, bioethics has transformed from a fledgling field into a complex, rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field of inquiry and practice. Its influence can be found not only in our intellectual and biomedical institutions, but also in almost every facet of our social, cultural, and political life. This volume maps the remarkable development of bioethics in American culture, uncovering the important historical factors that brought it into existence, analyzing its cultural, philosophical, and professional dimensions, and surveying its potential future trajectories. Bringing...

Klonieren im Humanbereich umfasst Handlungsmoglichkeiten, die ethisch unterschiedlich beurteilt werden - so z.B. die Gewinnung von menschlichen embryonalen Stammzellen oder das Klonieren von Embryonen. Das Buch liefert eine umfangreiche Darstellung der naturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen sowie der bisher erreichten Anwendungsmoglichkeiten. Ausgehend hiervon werden die ethischen Kriterien und Argumente analysiert, die den einschlagigen gesetzlichen Regelungen bzw. Empfehlungen in Deutschland, Grobritannien, Frankreich und den USA zugrunde liegen. In den vier untersuchten Landern werden...

Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book
Long-listed for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
One of Nature's Summer Book Picks
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books

For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But what happens when we take animal alteration a step further, engineering a cat that glows green under ultraviolet...

This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a 'social construction' and that 'anything goes' with respect to methodological and moral rules. Instead, it claims that there is scientific knowledge, but that it is never completely secure; that there are norms, but that...