Ethics category: 8196 books
by Raymond Geuss
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to...
Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination
Visions, Minds, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In this highly original book, Russell Blackford discusses the intersection of science fiction and humanity’s moral imagination. With the rise of science and technology in the 19th century, and our continually improving understanding of the cosmos, writers and thinkers soon began to imagine...
by Christian Becker
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them. It also provides a methodological framework to integrate ethical and scientific analyses of sustainability issues, and explores the notion of a new type of self-reflective inter- and transdisciplinary...
The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects
Protecting People, Advancing Science, Promoting Trust
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book provides a framework for approaching ethical and policy dilemmas in research with human subjects from the perspective of trust. It explains how trust is important not only between investigators and subjects but also between and among other stakeholders involved in the research enterprise,...
An Introduction to Robophilosophy
Cognition, Intelligence, Autonomy, Consciousness, Conscience and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Modern robots have arrived at a very matured state both in their mechanical / control aspects and their mental aspects. An Introduction to Robophilosophy explores the philosophical questions that arise in the development, creation, and use of mental – anthropomorphic and zoomorphic- robots that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
This volume offers a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine. It serves as a fundamental handbook and resource for pediatricians, nurses, residents in training, graduate students, and practitioners of ethics and healthcare policy. Written by a team of leading experts,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. In this period, technology has radically changed medical practices and the way we die as structures of power have been reshaped by the rights...
Saviour Siblings
A Relational Approach to the Welfare of the Child in Selective Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
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 particular purpose...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2002.The wide range of essays contained within this volume present contemporary thinking on the legal and ethical implications surrounding modern medical practice.
by Lloyd Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Recent, significant changes in surgery, technology, regulations, and society have greatly impacted how surgeons...
Dermatoethics
Contemporary Ethics and Professionalism in Dermatology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
There has been a sea-change in dermatology in the last three decades. Managed care, electronic records and communication, cosmetic dermatology, direct-to-consumer advertising, core competencies, and conflicts of interest were either nascent concepts or not even on the horizon as recently as the mid-1980s....
by S. Matthew Liao
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is...
J. M. Coetzee and Ethics
Philosophical Perspectives on Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruthless...
Animal Rights Without Liberation
Applied Ethics and Human Obligations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other...