Routledge Annals of Bioethics
Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Francesco Sporing, John-Stewart Gordon
June 30, 2020
Recent scientific developments, in particular advances in pharmacogenetics and molecular genetics, have given rise to numerous predictive procedures for detecting predispositions to diseases in patients. This knowledge, however, does not necessarily promise benign results for either patients or ...
A New Theory of Conscientious Objection in Medicine: Justification and Reasonability
1st Edition
By Robert F. Card
May 11, 2020
This book argues that a conscientiously objecting medical professional should receive an exemption only if the grounds of an objector’s refusal are reasonable. It defends a detailed, contextual account of public reasonability suited for healthcare, which builds from the overarching concept of ...
The Bioethics of Pain Management: Beyond Opioids
1st Edition
By Daniel S. Goldberg
November 28, 2017
In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment within the US medical establishment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for ameliorating the undertreatment of pain. The book begins from the ...
The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth: Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing
1st Edition
By Helen Watt
November 28, 2017
The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth addresses the unique moral questions raised by pregnancy and its intimate bodily nature. From assisted reproduction to abortion and ‘vital conflict’ resolution to more everyday concerns of the pregnant woman, this book argues for pregnancy as a close...
The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease
1st Edition
By Mary Ann Cutter
May 24, 2017
Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the ...
Parental Obligations and Bioethics: The Duties of a Creator
1st Edition
By Bernard G. Prusak
November 03, 2016
This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being. Prusak argues that parents, as procreators, have obligations regarding future children that constrain the liberty of would-be parents to do as they wish. Moreover, these obligations ...
Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics
1st Edition
By James Stacey Taylor
May 21, 2015
Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a ...
Human Dignity in Bioethics: From Worldviews to the Public Square
1st Edition
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By Stephen Dilley, Nathan J. Palpant
May 21, 2015
Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. The volume falls into three parts, beginning with meta-level perspectives and moving to ...
Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics
1st Edition
By Mark J. Cherry, John F. Peppin
September 11, 2014
Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments....
Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility
1st Edition
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By Nancy M.P. King, Michael J Hyde
March 19, 2014
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. The contributors examine moral and policy controversies surrounding biomedical...
Thomistic Principles and Bioethics
1st Edition
By Jason T. Eberl
November 08, 2013
Alongside a revival of interest in Thomism in philosophy, scholars have realised its relevance when addressing certain contemporary issues in bioethics. This book offers a rigorous interpretation of Aquinas's metaphysics and ethical thought, and highlights its significance to questions in bioethics...
Practical Autonomy and Bioethics
1st Edition
By James Stacey Taylor
January 06, 2011
This is the first volume in which an account of personal autonomy is developed that both captures the contours of this concept as it is used in social philosophy and bioethics, and is theoretically grounded in, and a part of, contemporary autonomy theory. James Stacey Taylor’s account is unique as ...