wyszukanych pozycji: 44
Is There a Duty to Die?
ISBN: 9781617371875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The question of whether there might be a duty to die was first raised by Margaret Battin in 1987 in her ground-breaking essay, "Age Distribution and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty to-Die?" In 1997 the issue was reprised when two new articles appeared on the topic written by John Hardwig and the other by former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm. Given the renewed interest in the topic, as well as its undeniable importance, Biomedical Ethics Re views sought to initiate an in-depth discussion of the issue by soliciting articles and issuing a general call for papers on the...
The question of whether there might be a duty to die was first raised by Margaret Battin in 1987 in her ground-breaking essay, "Age Distribution and t...
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Biomedical Ethics Reviews - 1985
ISBN: 9780896030930 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1985 is the third volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central impor tance in bioethics today. Four topics are discussed in the present volume: ( 1) Should citizens of the United States be permitted to buy, sell, and broker human organs? (2) Should sex preselection be legally proscribed? (3) What decision-making procedure should medical per sonnel employ in those cases where there is a high degree of uncer tainty? (4) What do we mean when we use the terms "health" and "disease"? Each topic constitutes a separate...
Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1985 is the third volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central impor tance...
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Quantitative Risk Assessment: Biomedical Ethics Reviews - 1986
ISBN: 9780896030565 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The National Science Foundation, The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Center for Technology and Humanities at Georgia State University sponsored a two-day national conference on Moral Issues and Public Policy Issues in the Use of the Method of Quantitative Risk Assessment ( QRA) on September 26 and 27, 1985, in Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of the conference was to promote discussion among practicing risk assessors, senior government health officials extensively involved in the practice of QRA, and moral philosophers familiar with the method. The conference was...
The National Science Foundation, The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Center for Technology and Humanities at Georgia Sta...
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Biomedical Ethics and the Law
ISBN: 9780306402425 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 658 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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Human Cloning
ISBN: 9781617370762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics tackle the thorny problems raised by the now real possibility of human cloning. In their wide ranging reviews, the distinguished contributors critically examine the major arguments for and against human cloning, probe the implications of such a procedure for society, and critically evaluate the "Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission." The debate includes both religious and secular arguments, as well as an outline of the history of the cloning...
In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics tackle the thorny problems raised by...
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192,74 zł |
Reproduction, Technology, and Rights
ISBN: 9780896033269 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, philosophers and ethicists debate the central moral issues and problems raised by today's revolution in reproductive technology. Leading issues discussed include the ethics of paternal obligations to children, the place of in vitro fertilization in the allocation of health care resources, and the ethical implications of such new technologies as blastomere separation and cloning. Also considered are how parents and society should respond to knowledge gained from prenatal testing and whether or not the right to abort should relieve men of the duty to...
In Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, philosophers and ethicists debate the central moral issues and problems raised by today's revolution in repro...
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Mental Illness and Public Health Care
ISBN: 9781588290212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Is the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill morally proper? How can we determine proper psychiatric care in a managed health care system? And can a mental health professional violate patient's confidentiality when they believe a patient is a threat to someone? In six non-ideological essays, leading bioethicists, including one with practical experience in medical administration, search for clear moral and legal guidelines for dealing with the complex issues presented when treating mentally ill patients. Objective and readily understandable, Mental Illness and Public Health Care...
Is the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill morally proper? How can we determine proper psychiatric care in a managed health care system? And ca...
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What Is Disease?
ISBN: 9780896033528 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease. Their combined thoughts review and update an issue...
Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with...
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Alternative Medicine and Ethics
ISBN: 9781617370373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternative medicines. The distinguished authorities writing here both defend and criticize alternative medicine, with some arguing that the medical system should change substantially in order to accommodate alternative medicine, and others claiming that virtually all alternative treatments are worthless. In the heat of the debate many fundamental issues are raised concerning our health care system, among them the questions of therapeutic effectiveness,...
Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternati...
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424,07 zł |
Care of the Aged
ISBN: 9781617374449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of the elderly and infirm continue to rise dramatically. Given these facts, it should come as no surprise that we are experi encing an ever-increasing concern with questions relating to the proper care and treatment of the aged. What responsibilities do soci eties have to their aging citizens? What duties, if any, do grown chil dren owe their parents? What markers should we use to determine one's status as "elderly"? Does treatment of pain in aged...
In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of ...
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Allocating Health Care Resources
ISBN: 9780896032606 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan. ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of...
In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the c...
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Privacy and Health Care
ISBN: 9781617372339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the United States regarding how these rights should relate to medical information. On the one hand, virtually everyone agrees that one' s medical records should not be open to just any interested person' s inspection. On the other hand, most also agree that some sacrifices in medical privacy are necessary for scientific advancement, public health protection, and other social goals. However, what limits should be set upon those sacrifices, and how those...
Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the Unit...
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Allocating Health Care Resources
ISBN: 9781475744798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan. ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of...
In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the c...
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Privacy and Health Care
ISBN: 9780896038783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the United States regarding how these rights should relate to medical information. On the one hand, virtually everyone agrees that one' s medical records should not be open to just any interested person' s inspection. On the other hand, most also agree that some sacrifices in medical privacy are necessary for scientific advancement, public health protection, and other social goals. However, what limits should be set upon those sacrifices, and how those...
Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the Unit...
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Stem Cell Research
ISBN: 9781617375439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. A collection of objective essays reviewing the principal arguments for and against stem cell research. Among the issues considered are whether stem cell research treats embryos as "commodities," violates the rights of human embryos, or alienates women from their reproductive labor, and whether human embryos are entitled to full membership in the moral community.
A collection of objective essays reviewing the principal arguments for and against stem cell research. Among the issues considered are whether stem ce...
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Care of the Aged
ISBN: 9781588292407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of the elderly and infirm continue to rise dramatically. Given these facts, it should come as no surprise that we are experi encing an ever-increasing concern with questions relating to the proper care and treatment of the aged. What responsibilities do soci eties have to their aging citizens? What duties, if any, do grown chil dren owe their parents? What markers should we use to determine one's status as "elderly"? Does treatment of pain in aged...
In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of ...
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385,52 zł |
Alternative Medicine and Ethics
ISBN: 9780896034402 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternative medicines. The distinguished authorities writing here both defend and criticize alternative medicine, with some arguing that the medical system should change substantially in order to accommodate alternative medicine, and others claiming that virtually all alternative treatments are worthless. In the heat of the debate many fundamental issues are raised concerning our health care system, among them the questions of therapeutic effectiveness,...
Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternati...
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385,52 zł |
What Is Disease?
ISBN: 9781617370151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease. Their combined thoughts review and update an issue...
Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with...
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462,63 zł |
Mental Illness and Public Health Care
ISBN: 9781617373107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Is the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill morally proper? How can we determine proper psychiatric care in a managed health care system? And can a mental health professional violate patient's confidentiality when they believe a patient is a threat to someone? In six non-ideological essays, leading bioethicists, including one with practical experience in medical administration, search for clear moral and legal guidelines for dealing with the complex issues presented when treating mentally ill patients. Objective and readily understandable, Mental Illness and Public Health Care...
Is the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill morally proper? How can we determine proper psychiatric care in a managed health care system? And ca...
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192,74 zł |
Stem Cell Research
ISBN: 9781588294012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary collection of essays deals with the moral issues associated with stem cell research. Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of the on-going debate between the pro- and anti- stem cell research factions and introduce the principal arguments used by both sides of the dispute. Also discussed are the preeminent issues that arise with the arguments for and against the moral propriety of stem cell research.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays deals with the moral issues associated with stem cell research. Renowned philosophers and medical ethicist...
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385,52 zł |