Author: Ouellette, Alicia Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume brings together a group of researchers from different European countries and disciplines who are involved in Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC). The work provides a discussion on the theor...
Author: Smith, Stephen W. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Those involved in end-of-life decision making must take into account both legal and ethical issues. This book starts with a critical reflection of ethical principles including ideas such as moral stat...
Author: Laurie, Graeme Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The phenomenon of the New Genetics raises complex social problems, particularly those of privacy. This book offers ethical and legal perspectives on the questions of a right to know and not to know ge...
Author: Chico, Victoria Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Advances in genetic technology will lead to novel legal challenges. This book identifies four potential genomic claims which may be articulated as novel negligence challenges. Each of these claims is ...
Author: Chico, Victoria Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Advances in genetic technology will lead to novel legal challenges. This book identifies four potential genomic claims which may be articulated as novel negligence challenges. Each of these claims is ...
Author: Donnelly, Mary Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This analysis of the law's approach to healthcare decision-making critiques its liberal foundations in respect of three categories of people: adults with capacity, adults without capacity and adults w...
Author: Price, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Deficiencies and shortfalls in the supply of human organs for transplantation and human tissue for research generate policy dilemmas across the world and have often given rise to major and deleterious...
Author: Macintosh,Kerry Lynn Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many people think human reproductive cloning should be a crime. In America some states have already outlawed cloning and Congress is working to enact a national ban. Meanwhile, scientific research con...
Author: Syrett,Keith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dr Keith Syrett argues for a reappraisal of the role of public law adjudication in questions of healthcare rationing. As governments worldwide turn to explicit rationing strategies to manage the misma...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Organ shortage is an ongoing problem in many countries. The needless death and suffering which have resulted necessitate an investigation into potential solutions. This examination of contemporary eth...
Author: Sperling,Daniel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Daniel Sperling discusses the legal status of posthumous interests and their possible defeat by actions performed following the death of a person. The author first explores the following questions: Do...
Author: Dickenson,Donna Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: New developments in biotechnology radically alter our relationship with our bodies. Body tissues can now be used for commercial purposes, while external objects, such as pacemakers, can become part of...
Author: Kuppuswamy, Chamundeeswari Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores international governance of the human genome from a human rights perspective and challenges paradigms of property that are entrenched in relevant international instruments.
Author: Mason,J. K. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mason looks at the legal response to those aspects of the troubled pregnancy which require or involve medico-legal intervention. The unwanted pregnancy is considered particularly in the light of the A...
Author: Fovargue, Sara Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Some developing biotechnologies challenge accepted legal and ethical norms because of the risks they pose. Xenotransplantation (cross-species transplantation) may prolong life but may also harm the xe...
Author: Nie, Jing-Bao Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on a wide range of primary historical and sociological sources and employing sharp philosophical analysis, this book investigates medical ethics from a Chinese-Western comparative perspective....
Author: Nie, Jing-Bao Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Drawing on a wide range of primary historical and sociological sources and employing sharp philosophical analysis, this book investigates medical ethics from a Chinese-Western comparative perspective....
