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  • von Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt
    112,00 - 113,00 €

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    186,00 €

    Provides students with an understanding of solidarity as a fundamental value in health care and social care, by comparing it with traditional approaches to justice, fairness, and individual freedom. This book provides the reader with evidence of the socio-cultural views of solidarity, which may contribute to understanding of its determinants.

  • von Michael Quante
    85,00 - 96,00 €

    This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death;

  • - New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics
     
    131,00 €

    Contributors examine the nature and plausibility of moral expertise, the relationship between character and expertise, the nature and limits of moral authority, how one might become a moral expert, and the trustworthiness of moral testimony.

  • von Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
    458,00 €

    Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. Fuzzy medical deontics, fuzzy medical ontology, fuzzy medical concept formation, fuzzy medical decision-making and biomedicine and many other techniques of fuzzification in medicine are introduced for the first time.

  • - New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics
     
    94,00 €

    Contributors examine the nature and plausibility of moral expertise, the relationship between character and expertise, the nature and limits of moral authority, how one might become a moral expert, and the trustworthiness of moral testimony.

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    139,00 €

    Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics offers both an annotated reprint of his key ethical writings, and an extensive introductory essay that fills in many previously unknown details of Ryan's life, analyzes the significance of his ethical works, and places him within the historical trajectory of the field of medical ethics.

  • - Finding Middle Ground in Hard Cases
    von Melinda A. Roberts
    94,00 €

    This book aims to give an account, called Variabilism, of the moral significance of merely possible persons and to use Variabilism to illuminate abortion. In doing so it lays the groundwork for a more productive discussion on abortion.

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    185,00 €

    Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years.

  • - Critical Reflections on Asian Moral Perspectives
     
    147,00 €

    This book examines the implications of Confucian moral and ontological understandings for medical decision-making, human embryonic stem cell research, and health care financing.

  • - A Quest for Moral Diversity
     
    139,00 €

    This is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars. The book unfolds a rich and colorful picture and addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics.

  • - History and Perspectives
     
    109,00 €

    This is the first English-language book-length text to trace the development of bioethics in the Ibero-American context. Coverage is given to many countries within Latin America with an aim to present the historical development of bioethics therein.

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    140,00 €

    This volume explores Confucian views regarding the human body, health, virtue, suffering, suicide, euthanasia, `human drugs,' human experimentation, and justice in health care distribution.

  • - East Asian and American Perspectives
     
    50,00 €

    This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research. In contrast to that individually oriented approach, this volume explores the importance of family-oriented approaches to informed consent for medical treatment and clinical research.

  • - Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century
     
    100,00 €

    This volume has emerged from papers delivered at a conference on the History of Medical Ethics, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 1 December, 1989.

  • - Towards a Personalist Concept of Health
     
    96,00 €

    An investigation that offers an impetus for various conceptions of person hood and human health. It works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.

  • - East Asian and American Perspectives
     
    75,00 €

    This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research. In contrast to that individually oriented approach, this volume explores the importance of family-oriented approaches to informed consent for medical treatment and clinical research.

  • - A Study of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law
     
    50,00 €

    This volume reviews both the background bioethical debates and the elements of the public policy making process that are essential to understanding New York's experience with the DNR law.

  • - Value-Dependent Realism
    von William E. Stempsey
    50,00 - 141,00 €

    As a philosophically unsophisticated young physician, however, I had no language or framework to analyze what I saw as a deep philosophical problem, a problem largely unrecognized by most physicians.

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    186,00 €

    This volume employs philosophical and historical perspectives to shed light on classic social, ethical, and philosophical issues raised with renewed urgency against the backdrop of the mapping of the human genome.

  • von Ana Smith Iltis
    141,00 €

    This volume addresses the nature of health care organizational ethics, including such issues as corporate fraud and institutional moral integrity, and covers the broad range of issues that must be addressed for a coherent discussion of organizational moral responsibility.

  • - Volume II: Ethical Viewpoints in Transition
     
    50,00 €

    It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and was possibly a mistake. Indeed, we are experiencing something of a backlash against open sexuality and sexual liberation.

  • - Volume I: Conceptual Roots
     
    50,00 €

    When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma.

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    140,00 €

    Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special moral concerns, such as permissible uses of the body, which have a long history of analysis.

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    94,00 €

    The principle of respecting the free and informed consent of the person is clearly stressed. The issue of interventions on persons unable to provide an informed consent has been controversial for a long time;

  • - Philosophical Considerations on the Use of the Human Body and its Parts in Healthcare
     
    139,00 €

    This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body. In the final section of the book, different theoretical perspectives on the human body are analyzed: libertarian, personalist, deontological and utilitarian theories of body ownership.

  • von J. Li
    141,00 €

    lt is with great pleasure that I write this preface for Or Li's book, wh ich addresses the venerable and vexing issues surrounding the problem of whether death can be a harm to the person who dies.

  • - Papers dedicated in tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino
     
    139,00 €

    This volume explores the plurality of moral perspectives shaping bioethics. It offers a rich perspective of the range of approaches to bioethics and brings into question whether there is unambiguously one ethics for bioethics to apply.

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    185,00 €

    The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, between 25-28 May 1999.

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    139,00 €

    The idea of preparing a new critical edition of Elisha Bartlett's Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science was suggested to me several years ago by Dr. H. I was able to find many of Bartlett's published works and other nineteenth-century medical literature there, and the entire library staff provided quick and able research assistance.

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