Bioethics

Issues & Dilemmas

Buch | Hardcover

143 Seiten

2011
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61728-290-4 (ISBN)

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Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. This book presents research in the expansive field of bioethics including biomedical ethics in obstetrics, ethical decision making in the health care system, and the feasibility of using human oocytes for stem cell research.

Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. This book presents research in the expansive field of bioethics including biomedical ethics in obstetrics, ethical decision making in the health care system, the feasibility of using human oocytes for stem cell research, as well as mandatory circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa to prevent HIV and AIDS and environmental ethics to preserve the world for future generations.

Preface; Surgical Vaccine: Should Male Circumcision Be Mandatory in Sub-Saharan Africa; Medical Ethics in Obstetrics: A French Experiment; The 'Real World' of Ethical Decision-Making: Insights from Research; The Rights of Future Generations in Environmental Ethics; Two Different Approaches to Principles of Biomedical Ethics: A Philosophical Analysis & Discussion of the Theories of the American Ethicists Tom L Beauchamp & James F Childress & the Danish Philosophers Jakob Rendtorff & Peter Kemp; Oophorectomy Specimens as a Potential Source of Oocytes for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research; Index.

Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	230 x 155 mm
Gewicht	382 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	1-61728-290-1 / 1617282901
ISBN-13	978-1-61728-290-4 / 9781617282904
Zustand	Neuware