Publications

The advances being made in biotechnology present us with new and difficult moral challenges. The discussion of these issues does not only take place among specialists, but also involves a wide range of public opinion. Bioethics for All is an accessible ...

The author takes a closer look at one of the more controversial issues of human reproductive cloning; an issue widely discussed in recent years by bioethicists, theologians, sociologists, lawyers and also politicians. The book discusses cloning, its...

The concept and attempts at cloning are not new. However, the birth of Dolly (Lamb 6LL3) in 1997 not only brought the subject into the public domain, but also led to heated debates about the morality, or lack thereof, of using such a technique in...

In the midst of heated debates over issues such as genetic testing, abortion and compulsory vaccination, Joanna Żylińska offers a different perspective on the essence of bioethics. She states that in the age of digital technology and new media, the main task with which it must...

Bioethics in the Medical Profession is one of the few publications where the problems of contemporary medicine are jointly discussed by philosophers, sociologists, lawyers and physicians. The diversity of perspectives and the variety of worldviews presented by the authors allows...

Volume two presents: moral aspects of the separation of health services; ethical requirements and legal regulation of scientific research in medicine; the moral side of transplantation; ethical and legal issues of medical errors.

A modern lecture on bioethics, adapted to the Polish specificity. The author defines bioethics as the ethics of health care systems in democratic societies. He cites both classical examples giving rise to bioethics and case studies from domestic practice....

The presented monograph is an interdisciplinary study devoted to the applications of human DNA analysis for medical and non-medical purposes. The book addresses, among others, issues related to preimplantation and prenatal diagnosis, the principles of performing...

The book encompasses anthropological, philosophical and theological reflections focusing on the three stages of human life, taking into account important contemporary ethical issues related to its beginnings (e.g. diagnosis and treatment of human infertility,...

Indeed, it is not a matter of virtue ethics telling the doctor what he should and should not do, or what he is allowed and not allowed to do for the sake of the patient, but of showing him that it is worth taking responsibility for his own moral development and accordingly....

Bioethics has become part of life. It has slipped out of laboratories, from under microscopes and test tubes storing tissues at liquid nitrogen temperatures. It has penetrated the walls of laboratories, clinics and hospitals to reach people, struggling with difficult problems and...

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

"Encyclopedia of Bioethics" is the first publication in Poland that collects in the form of encyclopaedic entries a discussion of the most important ethical problems related to the development of biomedical sciences. 60 Authors, 115 entries, including: abortion, AIDS, contraception, diagnostic...

The publication is a modern, comprehensive guide to bioethics - a new field of theoretical reflection and social practice dealing with the ethical aspects of biomedical sciences in the context of their socio-cultural, economic and legal conditions. W...

Bioethics, as a new scientific discipline, was established within the United States in the early 1970s. It forms the basis for any model of bioethics practised today. The predominant contemporary view of bioethics is the one once proposed by A....