Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress.
Parents in the US and other societies are increasingly refusing to vaccinate their children, even though popular anti-vaccine myths – e.g. ‘vaccines c..
Ethics and Values in Health Care Management provides a valuable and much needed analysis of the ethical problems associated with health care managemen..
Arguing About Bioethics is a highly accessible, engaging introduction to the core questions in bioethics. This fresh, bold and exciting collection off..
This book examines Japan’s wartime medical atrocities and their postwar aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into perennial issues of..
The chapters in this book explore the patient safety managerial structures that exist in countries where there are developed patient safety infrastruc..
This book develops a unique account of autonomy in which its attribution to agents is dependent in part on their relationships with others and not mer..
This work takes on an array of issues where the dignity of individual life meets the imperatives of national-level health-care systems - patients' rig..
This book addresses the unique moral questions raised by pregnancy and its intimate bodily nature. From assisted reproduction to abortion and ‘vital c..
This book sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for amelio..
In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease ..
Leading scientists explain the nature and goals of `test-tube' reproduction and genetic engineering, and their eugenic implications. In contrast to th..