Georgetown University Press imprint: 313 books
by C. Ben Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory. Who could argue that medical advances like antibiotics, blood transfusions, and pacemakers have not improved the quality of people's lives? But with each new technological breakthrough there comes an array of consequences,...
An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals
Practical Approaches to Everyday Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1999
This collection of thirty-one cases and commentaries addresses ethical problems commonly encountered by the average health care professional, not just those working on such high-tech specialties as organ transplants or genetic engineering. It deals with familiar issues that are rarely considered in ethics...
Transplantation Ethics
, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from a dead person have successfully been procured and transplanted into a living person. After fourteen years, the three main issues that Robert Veatch first outlined...
Israel under Siege
The Politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Raffaella A. Del Sarto examines the creation of Israel's neo-revisionist consensus about security threats and regional order, which took hold of Israeli politics and society after 2000 and persists today. The failed Oslo peace process and the trauma of the Second Palestinian Intifada triggered this shift...
The Rebirth of the Clinic
An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2006
The Rebirth of the Clinic begins with a bold assertion: the doctor-patient relationship is sick. Fortunately, as this engrossing book demonstrates, the damage is not irreparable. Today, patients voice their desires to be seen not just as bodies, but as whole people. Though not willing to give up scientific...
High-Stakes Reform
The Politics of Educational Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Performance accountability has been the dominant trend in education policy reform since the 1970s. State and federal policies set standards for what students should learn; require students to take “high-stakes” tests to measure what they have learned; and then hold students, schools, and school districts...
Bioethics and the Human Goods
An Introduction to Natural Law Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a “natural law” philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to classical antiquity, has profoundly shaped Western ethics and law and is enjoying an exciting renaissance....
Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics
, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics, Second Edition, integrates theology, methodology, and practical application into a detailed and practical examination of the bioethical issues that confront students, scholars, and practitioners. Noted bioethicists Gerard Magill, Henk ten Have, and David F. Kelly...
The Organ Shortage Crisis in America
Incentives, Civic Duty, and Closing the Gap
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States. Every ten minutes a new name is added to the list, while on average twenty people die each day waiting for an organ to become available. Worse, our traditional reliance on cadaveric organ donation is becoming increasingly insufficient,...
Boundaries
A Casebook in Environmental Ethics, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In this expanded and revised edition of a fresh and original case-study textbook on environmental ethics, Christine Gudorf and James Huchingson continue to explore the line that separates the current state of the environment from what it should be in the future. Boundaries begins with a lucid overview...
Methods in Medical Ethics
, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring these...
Defining Death
The Case for Choice
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement...
The Jesuits and Globalization
Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is the most successful and enduring global missionary enterprise in history. Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Jesuit order has preached the Gospel, managed a vast educational network, and shaped the Catholic Church, society, and politics in...
When Proliferation Causes Peace
The Psychology of Nuclear Crises
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises? This is one of the great debates in international relations scholarship. Michael D. Cohen argues that nuclear weapons acquisition often does dangerously embolden the acquiring state to undertake coercion...