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Jewish Bioethics
Presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts.
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility
A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw. “Human dignity” has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term—like love, hope, and justice—that is intuitively grasped but never clearly defined. Some ethicists and bioethicists dismiss it; other thinkers point to its use in the service of particular ideologies. In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, a...
Can Precision Medicine Be Personal; Can Personalized Medicine Be Precise?
The book provides a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discussion of the ethos and ethics of precision / personal medicine, involving scientists who have shaped the field, in dialogue with ethicists, social scientists and philosophers of science.
Hanging
In her multifaceted artistic practice, which ranges from sculpture, video, drawing, and installation, Aya Ben Ron (*1967 in Haifa, Israel) explores the perception of death and morality, the morbid body, as well as the unconscious collective memory of pain in its sociohistorical dimension. Over the years she has established a rich body of works that has been widely recognized and included in numerous art exhibitions.This first monograph features works selected from all of the series Aya Ben Ron has produced in the last ten years. With essays by renowned art, philosophy, and medical professionals, such as Michal Ben-Naftali, Suhail Malik, and Yechiel Michael Barilan, this publication opens a new perspective on the artist's stunning oeuvre-including her most recent works for the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité. Exhibition schedule: Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin, April 29-September 9, 2012 | AANDO FINE ART, Berlin, April 28-June 22, 2012
Can Precision Medicine be Personal, Can Personalized Medicine be Precise?
Providing a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discussion of the ethos and ethics of precision/personal medicine, this book presents scientists who have shaped the field, in dialogue with ethicists, social scientists and philosophers of science.
Ethics in Everyday Places
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds. In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, “you do everything right but know you've done something wrong." The resulting moral stress and injury, he argues, are pervasive in modern Western society. Koch makes his argument "from the ground up," from the perspective of average persons, and through a revealing series of maps in which issues of ethics and morality are embedded. The book begins with a general grounding in both moral stress and mapping as a means of investigation....
Fair Resource Allocation and Rationing at the Bedside
Priority setting and rationing contribute significantly to affordable and fair healthcare and clinicians play an indispensable role in these processes. This book offers practical strategies for clinicians to allocate resources fairly, to teach about it to students, and to discuss rationing more explicitly in the public arena and the doctor's office.
History of Human Genetics
Written by 30 authors from all over the world, this book provides a unique overview of exciting discoveries and surprising developments in human genetics over the last 50 years. The individual contributions, based on seven international workshops on the history of human genetics, cover a diverse range of topics, including the early years of the discipline, gene mapping and diagnostics. Further, they discuss the status quo of human genetics in different countries and highlight the value of genetic counseling as an important subfield of medical genetics.
Specimen Science
Advances in medicine often depend on the effective collection, storage, research use, and sharing of human biological specimens and associated data. But what about the sources of such specimens? When a blood specimen is drawn from a vein in your arm, is that specimen still you? Is it your property, intellectual or otherwise? Should you be allowed not only to consent to its use in research but also to specify under what circumstances it may be used? These and other questions are at the center of a vigorous debate over the use of human biospecimens in research. In this book, experts offer legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in biospecimen research. After discussing the background to current debates as well as several influential cases, including that of Henrietta Lacks, the contributors consider the rights, obligations, risks, and privacy of the specimen source; different types of informed consent under consideration (broad, blanket, and specific); implications for special patient and researcher communities; and the governance of biospecimen repositories and the responsibilities of investigators.
Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy
"This book addresses the question of whether, and if so how, religion benefits American democracy. Scholarly views about the answer are divided, as is public opinion. Some hold that religion is beneficial where democracy is concerned; others view it as detrimental; and still others take the middle view that there is "good religion" and "bad religion", and that it all depends on kind is winning. As Robert Wuthnow argues in this new book, these ways of thinking about this topic paint with too broad a brush. Religion as we know it in the United States is vastly diverse, and it is this diversity that has mattered, and still matters. It has mattered not in the abstract, but concretely in the give...
