Bioethics

Introducción a la bioética

by Goikoetxea, María Jesús

fromCuadernos de teología Deusto

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Los grandes avances tecnológicos, la irrupción de la libertad de conciencia en las decisiones morales y la demanda ilimitada de asistencia sanitaria, en una sociedad que pone en crisis las políticas del Estado de Bienestar, son los factores fundamentales que han determinado la a…

Towards neurobioethics

by Dall'Agnol, Darlei

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"From time to time, a particular science achieves such great success that people are tempted to elevate it to the condition of prima philosophia and then to try to explain everything else from its perspective. Thus, physics becomes physicalism, history becomes historicism, and s…

Towards neurobioethics: by Darlei Dall'Agnol

by Dall'Agnol, Darlei

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From time to time, a particular science achieves such great success that people are tempted to elevate it to the condition of prima philosophia and then to try to explain everything else from its perspective. Thus, physics becomes physicalism, history becomes historicism, and so…

Towards neurobioethics: by Darlei Dall'Agnol

by Dall'Agnol, Darlei

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"From time to time, a particular science achieves such great success that people are tempted to elevate it to the condition of prima philosophia and then to try to explain everything else from its perspective. Thus, physics becomes physicalism, history becomes historicism, and s…

Assembling health rights in global context: genealogies and anthropologies

fromRoutledge studies in public health

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"What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse? During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts for instance in…

Debating bioethics

by Nellickappilly, Sreekumar

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"This book studies the critical issues that dominate contemporary discourse on biomedical ethics. It brings together various debates highlighting the historical, philosophical, scientific, and technological perspectives involved in modern medicine in different societies, with a …

Debating bioethics

by Nellickappilly, Sreekumar

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"This book studies the critical issues that dominate contemporary discourse on biomedical ethics. It brings together various debates highlighting the historical, philosophical, scientific, and technological perspectives involved in modern medicine in different societies, with a …

Debating bioethics

by Nellickappilly, Sreekumar

0 Type: Book

This book studies the critical issues that dominate contemporary discourse on biomedical ethics. It brings together various debates highlighting the historical, philosophical, scientific and technological perspectives involved in modern medicine in different societies, with a fo…

Unnatural selection: the challenges of engineering tomorrow's people

by Rayner, Steve, Healey, Peter

fromScience in society series

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'The whole idea of human enhancement divides people. cautious emphasize the dangers of the techniques themselves and the social and political consequences of allowing individual choice and commercial interests to prevail. enthusiasts point out that humans have always striven to …

Parental obligations and bioethics: the duties of a creator

by Prusak, Bernard G.

fromRoutledge annals of bioethics

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<P>This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being. Prusak argues that parents, as procreators, have obligations regarding future children that constrain the liberty of would-be parents to do as they wish. Moreover, …

Saviour Siblings: a Relational Approach to the Welfare of the Child…

by Taylor-Sands, Michelle

fromBiomedical law and ethics library

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Genetic screening technologies involving pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) raise particular issues about selective reproduction and the welfare of the child to be born. How does selection impact on the identity of the child who is born? Are children who are selected for a…

Politics of eugenics: productionism, population, and national welfare

by Spektorowski, Alberto, Ireni Saban, Liza

fromRoutledge studies in extremism and democracy

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"This book analyzes whether the "new debate on genetics" owes a debt to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s. More specifically, the question is whether precisely the same "eugenic rationale" used in the 1930s is philosophical akin to a new rationality unf…

Making sense of intersex: changing ethical perspectives in biomedicine

by Feder, Ellen K.

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Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand ""the problem"" of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to ""correct"" atypical sex anatomies caused them physical and psychol…