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1st ed.24 cm.Nature and purposes of technology and ethics -- The problem of technology and liberal democracy -- Practicing ethics -- Ethical challenges from biotechnology -- Life and lineage: genetics and the beginning of life -- The meaning of life in the laboratory -- The age of genetic technology arrives -- Cloning and the posthuman future -- Body and soul : parts and whole in the midst of life -- Organs for sale? : propriety, property and the price of progress -- Death and immortality : staying human at the end of life -- Is there a right to die? -- Death with dignity and the sanctity of life -- L'Chaim and its limits : why not immortality? -- Nature and purposes of biology -- The permanent limitations of biology.Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-305) and index.Other format available: Online version:; Kass, Leon.; Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity.; 1st ed.; San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2002Leon R. Kass. More Records: Show record informationInternet resource (url)Book; Internet Resource Date of Entry: 20020528

26 cm.Oversight and study design -- Informed consent -- Selection of subjects -- Conflicts of interest -- Social effects of research -- Embryos, fetuses, and children -- Genetic research -- Use of animals -- Authorship and publication -- Appendix A. The Nuremberg code -- Appendix B. The declaration of Helsinki.Table of contentshttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013016102&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIAIncludes bibliographical references and index.National bibliography no: GBA4-Y5539Timothy F. Murphy. More Records: Show record informationInternet resource (url)Book; Internet Resource

24 cm.Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Re-creating medicine by re-creating medical ethics -- 2. Re-creating the doctor-patient relationship: the ethics of cybermedicine -- 3. Re-creating organ donation: the case for reimbursement -- 4. Re-creating motherhood: buying reproductive help -- 5. Re-creating children: choosing traits -- 6. Re-creating our genes: cloning humans -- 7. Re-creating nature: patenting human genes? -- 8. Re-creating ourselves: no limits -- 9. Re-creating bioethics -- 10. Conclusions and reflections -- Index -- About the author.Includes bibliographical references and index.Recreating medicineGregory E. Pence. More Records: Show record informationBook

Elsevier/Academic Pressill. ; 25 cm.Prologue : bioethics--discovery through design -- Bioethics : a creative approach -- Bioethics and the engineer -- An engineered future : human enhancement -- The bioethical engineer -- Bioethical research and technological development -- Bioethical success and failure -- Analyzing bioethical success and failure -- Justice and fairness as biomedical and biosystem engineering concepts -- Sustainable bioethics -- Engineering wisdom -- Epilogue : practical bioethics.Publisher descriptionhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007004579-d.html http://bvbm2.bib-bvb.de:8993/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number... Note: InhaltsverzeichnisIncludes bibliographical references (p. 348-362) and indexes.National bibliography no: GBA748453Daniel A. Vallero. More Records: Show record informationInternet resource (url)Book; Internet Resource Date of Entry: 20070201

24 cm.A model for ethical problem solving -- Values in health and illness -- What is the source of moral judgments? -- Benefiting the patient and others : the duty to do good and avoid harm -- Justice : the allocation of health resources -- Autonomy -- Veracity : honesty with patients -- Fidelity : promise-keeping, loyalty to patients, and impaired professionals -- Avoidance of killing -- Abortion, sterilization, and contraception -- Genetics, birth, and the biological revolution -- Mental health and behavior control -- Confidentiality : ethical disclosure of medical information -- Organ transplants -- Health insurance, health system planning, and rationing -- Experimentation on human subjects -- Consent and the right to refuse treatment -- Death and dying.Includes bibliographical references and index.Robert M. Veatch, Amy M. Haddad, Dan C. English. More Records: Show record informationInternet resource (url)Book; Internet Resource