SummaryConsiders several subjects related to interdisciplinary health care decision-making issues, including research upon human subjects and institutional ethics committees. The materials are selected for their value in the classroom and […]

The present volume is collection of 32 papers in an abbreviated English version selected from the Journal of ELSI Studies published in Korean. This collection is intended to serve both […]

This book deals with the international assessment and regulation of biomedical research. In its chapters, some of the leading figures in today’s bioethics address questions centred on global development, scientific […]

Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications (utilitarianism, deontology, teleology, and […]

This volume is intended to open a window to how empirically based social research helps illuminate and answer ethical questions in health care. Its primary aim is to examine the […]

“Carefully reasoned, clearly articulated, and pulls no punches…Boldly tackles the most contentious issues in bioethics and public policy….Worst Case Bioethics is certain to provoke strong responses across disciplines and ideologies […]

This casebook consists of hundreds of case vignettes drawn from a variety of areas of clinical practice. It presents over 200 brief, concrete examples along with specific questions and alternatives […]

We are living in an unprecedented era of biomedical revolution. Medicine is remaking humans, and controversy surrounds such topics as abortion, artificial organs, brain circuitry, eugenics, euthanasia, and gene therapy. […]

Stem cell research. Drug company influence. Abortion. Contraception. Long-term and end-of-life care. Human participants research. Informed consent. The list of ethical issues in science, medicine, and public health is long […]