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Stem cell research. The influence of a pharmaceutical company. Miscarriage. Prevention of pregnancy. Long-term and end-of-life care. Human participant research. Informed consent. The list of ethical issues in science, medicine and public health is long and...

In the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, the ethical, legal and social consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment has become a cornerstone of bioethics. Patients can now legally write preliminary 200 guidelines,...

A doctor states: "I have an ethical duty never to cause the death of a patient", while another replies: "It is my ethical duty to relieve pain even if the patient dies". The current dispute over the role of doctors in helping patients to die continually refers to...

One of the Wall Street Journal's top ten books of the year A leading expert on public bioethics argues for a new conception of human identity in American law and politics. The natural limitations of the human body make us vulnerable and by ...

Drawing on the author's experience in two decades of teaching medical ethics in America at top universities and medical schools and his work as a practising psychiatrist, this innovative book confronts readers with the complex, troubling...

This book is an insightful examination of bioethics and American healthcare and their profound impact on American culture over the past sixty years by two distinguished scholars. An eye-opening look at the inevitable choices ...

Principles of Biomedical Ethics is a highly original, practical and insightful guide to morality in the health professions. Acclaimed authors Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress thoroughly develop and advocate the four principles that underlie...

David Rothman presents us with a brilliant, finely etched study of the practice of medicine today. Since the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States has undergone a remarkable - and utterly controversial - transformation. The discretion that ...

This book is the first comprehensive history of the emerging field of bioethics. It covers the period 1947-1987 and examines the origins and evolution of debates about human experimentation, genetic engineering, organ transplantation, the end of life-sustaining treatment,...

The author of the book interviewed 45 surrogate mothers (SMs) who had completed 63 births and delivered 90 children from 2007 to 2017. All of the surrogate mothers had completed surrogacy when they were interviewed. This research indicates that they continue to ...

Bioethics was 'born in the USA' and the values that American bioethics holds are based on American law, including freedom and justice. This book crosses the boundaries between bioethics and the law, but goes beyond the national law / bioethics struggle for...

This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and ubiquitous concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, forethought, prudence) and assesses the methodological relevance of the main methods of clinical decision-making and...

This book is a collection of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics in the 20th century. A pioneer in the field of multidisciplinary research, combining the major theological and philosophical traditions of the West with contemporary science,...

The Handbook of Global Bioethics was published at the right time for the gradual development of bioethics. Started as a critical discourse towards the professional ethics of the medical profession, the new discipline of bioethics emerged in the 1970s mainly in Western countries....

This book explores the moral discourses on medical practice in the primary texts of Ayurveda. Classical Ayurvedic treatises were written in Sanskrit between the 1st and 7th centuries AD, and later works, dating to the 16th century AD, are still considered strongly authoritative....