Bücher der Reihe International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

How can we ensure that pharmaceutical research helps all communities, even those who cannot afford to pay for the products? While broadly covering global health law, the book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach that draws on public international law, philosophy, international relations, human rights law, and healthcare economics.

Physical and psychological abuse and violations of medical codes have already been brought to light by concerned bioethicists responding to ethical lapses of the "war on terror." This book goes to the next level by looking at three areas that also merit our attention and call us to speak out against abuses.

This book offers a first rate selection of academic articles on Latin American bioethics. Latin American bioethics has been, to an important extent, parochial and unable to meet stringent international standards of rational philosophical discussion.

How can we ensure that pharmaceutical research helps all communities, even those who cannot afford to pay for the products? While broadly covering global health law, the book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach that draws on public international law, philosophy, international relations, human rights law, and healthcare economics.

The book will help academics, healthcare professionals, legal practitioners and the educated reader to understand the challenges of creating and implementing advance directives, anticipate clinical realities, and preparing advance directives that reflect a higher degree of assurance in terms of implementation.

This book supports the emerging field of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) for face and upper-limb transplants by providing a revised, ethically appropriate consent model which takes into account what is actually required of facial and upper extremity transplant recipients.

There are ethically relevant differences between rural health practice and rural health services delivery and urban practice and delivery that go beyond the stereotypes associated with rural life and rural health services.

This book examines core issues related to legal insanity, integrating perspectives from psychiatry, law, and ethics. Furthermore, the book discusses the impact neurosciences may have on psychiatric and psychological evaluations of defendants as well as on legal decisions about insanity.

Presenting real life cases from clinical practice, this book claims that children can be conceived of as moral equals without ignoring the fact that they still are children and in need of strong family relationships.

This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research.

This book analyzes definitions, concepts and recent research to offer a new model of malingering, feigning and other biases, and develops an associated diagnostic system applicable to PTSD, chronic pain and TBI. Presents ideas on practice and future research.

This book addresses the ways in which the metaphor of the criminal as monster is used to scapegoat certain categories of crimes and criminals for anxieties about our own potential for deviant, and, indeed, dangerous interests.

This book applies philosophical methods of conceptual analysis to the ethical, political and philosophical questions that surround health-oriented screening programs, including issues that arise when health care interacts with other societal institutions.

This volume is the first major work to address acceptable risk -- a question at the core of biomedical research. It represents a major contribution towards clarifying the most central, but also the most controversial and complex issue in biomedical research law and bioethics.

One of the first publications to synthesize reproductive ethics and post-structuralist philosophy, this monograph offers insightful discussion of key issues in reproductive ethics such as liberal eugenics, human enhancement and disability discrimination.

It will be of particular interest to students taking courses in health science, public health, medical anthropology, forensic anthropology, psychology, sociology, public justice, behavioral sciences, forensic psychiatry, legal anthropology, social welfare, as well as courses on research models.

Islamic Bioethics presents a critical analysis of legal and political debates resulting from biomedical technologies. Perspectives from traditional Muslim law are compared with contemporary religious authorities, medical associations, as well as individuals.

The need to identify and to address FASD more effectively and the many ethical issues this raises within the context of the law is increasingly acknowledged within judicial and legislative branches, as well as in government departments, agencies and community programs that provide services to those with FASD and their caretakers and families.

This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and pervasive concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, deliberation, prudence) and assesses the methodological suitability of the main methods for clinical decision-making and argumentation.

This book on the psychology of white collar criminals discusses various cases of financial crime, while also attempting to delve into the minds of the criminals in question.

This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ transplantation.

Should parents aim to make their children as normal as possible to increase their chances to "fit in"?

This book offers a first rate selection of academic articles on Latin American bioethics. Latin American bioethics has been, to an important extent, parochial and unable to meet stringent international standards of rational philosophical discussion.

This book offers an impressive collection of contributions on the epistemology of international biolaw and its applications, both in the legal and ethical fields.

This book analyzes the reasons for organ shortage and ventures innovative ideas for approaching this problem.

This book examines the many ethical issues that are encountered in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).

Most neonates who now survive intensive care would have died 50 years ago, and "nature" would have decided the outcomes, making ethical discussions about initiating or withholding resuscitation irrelevant.