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“mickey gjerris”

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  • Biotech Animals in Research

    Ethical and Regulatory Aspects

    Edited by Mickey Gjerris, Anna Kornum, Helena Röcklinsberg, Dorte Bratbo Sørensen ...
    This book explores central aspects of genetic modification of animals for scientific purposes in the context technological possibilities, regulatory issues in different regions, animal welfare implications and wider ethical issues exemplified through current theories and frameworks.This discussion of lab animals produced through modern biotechnologies becomes increasingly pressing as CRISPR-Cas9 ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Animal Ethics in Animal Research

    by Helena Röcklinsberg, Mickey Gjerris, I. Anna S. Olsson ...
    The use of animals in research has always been surrounded by ethical controversy. This book provides an overview of the central ethical issues focusing on the interconnectedness of science, law and ethics. It aims to make theoretical ethical reasoning understandable to non-ethicists and provide tools to improve ethical decision making on animal research. It focuses on good scientific practice, the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Letting Go

    how to plan for a good death

    by Charlie Corke ...
    ‘Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think — but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.’As Australia's population ages, many individuals are faced with making complex medical decisions, for themselves and for others, in times of great stress. How far should doctors go when trying to prolong life? How can we decide what is ‘too far’ and ‘not far enough’ for our loved ones ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    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 that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Surgery

    Conflicts and Controversies

    Edited by Robert M. Sade, M.D. ...
    According to popular belief, technical skill is far more important for surgeons than thoughtful deliberation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although surgeons must sometimes make decisions rapidly on the basis of incomplete evidence and must respond to unexpected catastrophes in the operating room rapidly, those events are intermittent - most of the time surgeons deliberate on diagnostic ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Interpreting in the Community and Workplace

    A Practical Teaching Guide

    by Mette Rudvin, Elena Tomassini ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of dialogue interpreting addresses not only the two key areas of Community- and Public Service Interpreting, the legal and health sectors, but also business interpreting. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Scarlet A

    The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

    by Katie Watson ...
    Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics

    Edited by Joseph Boyle, Leonard Sumner ...
    Series series Toronto Studies in Philosophy
    How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems? How are we to understand the role of bioethics in the health care system, government, and academe? This collection of original essays raises these and other questions about the nature of bioethics as a discipline. The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Ethical Decision Making in Nursing and Health Care

    The Symphonological Approach

    by James H. Husted, Gladys Husted, PhD, MSN, RN ...
    Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!"This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not clearly definedÖ.This should be a valuable book for ethics and theory courses." Score: 100, 5 stars--Doody'sHusted and Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making that ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Bioethics: The Basics

    by Alastair Campbell ...
    Series series The Basics
    Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include:the range of moral theories underpinning bioethicsarguments for the rights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Bioethics, Genetics and Sport

    by Silvia Camporesi, Mike McNamee ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body. Drawing on real case studies and grounded in rigorous scientific evidence, this book offers an ethical critique of current practices and explores the intersection of genetics, ethics and sport.Written by two of the world's ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Future of Bioethics

    by Howard Brody ...
    Bioethics, born in the 1960s and 1970s, has achieved great success, but also has experienced recent growing pains, as illustrated by the case of Terri Schiavo. In The Future of Bioethics, Howard Brody, a physician and scholar who dates his entry into the field in 1972, sifts through the various issues that bioethics is now addressing--and some that it is largely ignoring--to chart a course for the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD