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Increased knowledge and technological progress remain factors that expand the possibilities of medicine, but also generate new ethical issues. Their resolution may encounter some difficulties. To the questions: "when does human life begin?", or "when does human ...

Are drug manufacturers inventing new diseases? Can science work for profit? What distinguishes conflicts of interest from corruption? The author outlines these and other controversial practices in the pharmaceutical industry. She writes about reprehensible forms of commercialisation of knowledge, lobbying by companies ...

In a simple and accessible question-and-answer format, the book addresses the fundamental ethical issues related to the beginning and end of human life (definition of the beginning of life, contraception, abortion, artificial insemination, euthanasia, assisted suicide, therapy...

"The monograph presented here addresses the need for an in-depth analysis of the problem of whether a pharmacist can produce and/or distribute pharmaceuticals that strike at the basic ethos of medicine, which is to treat, or at least not harm, the patient. The pharmacist is not...

Ethics is a principle that describes what is right and correct and what is wrong or incorrect in terms of behaviour. Ethics and ethical practice are incorporated into all aspects of nursing care. The scope of this book is to apply basic ...

One of the best studies considering the state of contemporary bioethics research and the most important issues in bioethics. The book also tackles issues such as:In vitro Is test-tube life a gift from God? Truthfulness towards the sick in the dyingNa...

The publication is divided into two parts. The first focuses on the foundations of Catholic-inspired bioethics. After a general presentation of the history of bioethics, the crisis in respect for human life in the modern world and the Church's response to it are illustrated....

The book presents in an accessible way the fundamental issues of bioethics in the light of the teaching of the Catholic Church. An outstanding expert on the subject, Fr Andrzej Muszala, PhD, professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, answering questions from Dorota Mazur,...

The sixth volume of the Anthology of Bioethics, published by TAiWPN Universitas under the scientific editorship of Wlodzimierz Galewicz, deals with fundamental questions of mental health care. What does mental illness or disorder actually consist of? How should we relate today to...

The anthology Truth, confidentiality, autonomy - problems of information in medical ethics is the next, fifth volume of the Anthology of Bioethics, published by TAiWPN Universitas under the scientific editorship of Włodzimierz Galewicz (previous volumes: Vol. I: Around death and dying, Krakow...

THE FOURTH VOLUME OF THE ANTHOLOGY OF BIOETHICS, devoted to justice in medicine and health care, is a double volume. Its first part, Around the Right to Health Care, includes several classic positions in contemporary rights theory and selected works,...

The third volume of the Bioethics Anthology is devoted to biomedical research involving human subjects. It contains translations of some 20 important texts, mainly by American authors, dealing with topics such as: the differences between clinical research and medical care; general...

A volume designed to introduce interested readers to contemporary discussions around the moral problems of procreation, this book is already the second link in a wider Anthology of Bioethics. The works collected in it, mainly by authors from Anglo-Saxon circles, have been ...

"At the end of many a man's life, and sometimes even in the middle, if not even at the beginning of his expected life, there comes a moment of uneasy decision-making: it is a moment at which not infrequently he himself, and even more often those who care for him - his loved ones, his ...

This collective work presents a personalistic conception of the autonomy of the person and the autonomy of the patient. Dignity is treated here as a fundamental value, a core value, around which the whole hierarchy of other values and goods is grouped. The approach presented here goes...