This crucial book will transform the way anthropologists think about everyday ethics from the moment it appears."—Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge "In this extraordinary book about ...
This crucial book will transform the way anthropologists think about everyday ethics from the moment it appears."—Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge "In this extraordinary book about ...
Jennifer Jackson seeks to answer these significant questions, establishing new foundations for a traditional and secular ethic which would not require a radical and problematic overhaul of the old.
The book reviews the COVID-19 pandemic to ask not only 'did our societies make the right ethical choices?', but also 'what lessons must we learn before Disease X arrives?'
Do people have a right to public health? How should we integrate ethics into public health practice? The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health addresses these questions and more, and is the first collection of its kind.
It then focuses on the redefinition of the Frankenstein myth in popular culture. The final section examines the continuing power of the story to articulate present day concerns raised by developments in biomedicine.
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The contributors to this volume seek to define an emerging field of scholarly, policy, and public concern: a new biopolitics."--Provided by publisher.
This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists and first published in 2000, was the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to human beings.
La objeción de conciencia en la atención de la salud es un tema que ha crecido en los tipos de problemas que plantea y en su complejidad en muchos países de América Latina.