Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate
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edited by Christopher Tollefsen.
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Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope's claim that the life of all human beings, even those in a persistent vegetative state or a coma, was worth protecting, others argued that the Pope's position marked a shift from the traditional Catholic teaching on the withdrawal of medical tre…
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- Tollefsen, Christopher
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- edited by Christopher Tollefsen
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- Dordrecht
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- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2008
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 229 p.)
- Series Vol.
- 93
- 5
- Series Title
- Philosophy and medicine
- Catholic studies in bioethics
- ISBN
- 9781402062070
- 9781402062063 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Catholicism
- Fluid Therapy - ethics
- Nutritional Support - ethics
- Persistent Vegetative State - therapy
- Religion and Medicine
- Terminal Care - ethics
- Abstract
- Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope's claim that the life of all human beings, even those in a persistent vegetative state or a coma, was worth protecting, others argued that the Pope's position marked a shift from the traditional Catholic teaching on the withdrawal of medical treatment at the end of life. The debate among Catholic bioethicists over the Pope's statement only grew more intense during the controversy surrounding Terry Schiavo's death in 2005, as bioethicists on both sides of the debate argued about the legitimacy of removing her feeding tubes. This collection of essays by some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope's statements, the moral issues surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the refusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for those at the end of life.
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- Part I. The Issue -- Why do Unresponsive Patients Still Matter? -- Are We Morally Obliged to Feed PVS Patients Till Natural Death? -- Caring for Persons in the "Persistent Vegetative State" and Pope John Paul II's March 20 2004 Address "On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State" -- Food and Fluids: Human Law, Human Rights and Human Interests -- Part II. Philosophers Address the Issue -- Quality of Life and Assisted Nutrition -- Towards Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration -- Understanding the Ethics of Artificially Providing Food and Water -- The Ethics of Pope John Paul's Allocution on Care of the PVS Patient: A Response to J.L.A. Garcia -- Part III. Symposium on the Views of Fr. Kevin O'Rourke, O.P. -- Reflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care For PVS Patients -- The Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients: A Reply to Fr. O'Rourke -- Response to Patrick Lee -- The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique of the View of Kevin O'Rourke, O.P. -- Part IV. Concluding Reflections -- Ten Errors Regarding End of Life Issues, and Especially Artificial Nutrition and Hydration.
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Clinical bioethics : a search for the foundations
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edited by Corrado Viafora.
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Springer
, c2005.
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- Viafora, Corrado, 1950-
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- edited by Corrado Viafora
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2005
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 206 p.)
- Series Vol.
- v. 26
- ISBN
- 9781402035937
- 9781402035920 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ethics, Clinical
- Philosophy, Medical
- Contents
- PART 1. CLINICAL BIOETHICS: COMPARING THEORETICAL MODELS -- Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age -- The "Telos" of Medicine and the Good of the Patient -- The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society -- A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- PART 2. TOWARD CLINICAL BIOETHICS INTEGRATING "INTERNAL MORALITY" AND "EXTERNAL MORALITY" -- "A Helping and Caring Profession": Medicine as a Normative Practice -- PART 2.1. THE GOALS OF MEDICINE IN RELATION TO THE SUBJECTIVISATION OF HEALTH AND RATIONALISATION OF HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS -- Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness -- The Right to Choose One's Health -- The Tension between Ethics and Evidence-based Medicine -- Maintaining Integrity in Times of Scarse Resources -- PART 2.2. BIOETHICAL JUDGMENT: EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUTE AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT -- For an Ethical Function in Hospitals -- The Ethical Function in the Health Care Institutions: Clinical Ethics Committees.
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Contemporary Bioethics : Islamic Perspective
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43981
Mohammed Ali Al-Bar, Hassan Chamsi-Pasha.
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SpringerOpen
, c2015.
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This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guida…
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- Al-Bar, Mohammed Ali
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- Chamsi-Pasha, Hassan
- Responsibility
- Mohammed Ali Al-Bar, Hassan Chamsi-Pasha.
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 267 p.)
- ISBN
- 9783319184289
- 9783319184296 (Print ed.)
- 9783319184272 (Print ed.)
- 9783319363813 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Bioethical Issues
- Islam
- Religion and Medicine
- Specialty
- Ethics
- Abstract
- This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guidance through which human communities have been guided at all times through history. The second part of the book concentrates on the objectives of Islamic religious practice – the maqa' sid – which include: Preservation of Faith, Preservation of Life, Preservation of Mind (intellect and reason), Preservation of Progeny (al-nasl) and Preservation of Property. Lastly, the third part of the book discusses selected topical issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction devices, genetics, organ transplantation, brain death and end-of-life aspects. For each topic, the current medical evidence is followed by a detailed discussion of the ethical issues involved.
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- Part I. Introductory Chapters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Sources of Common Principles of Morality and Ethics in Islam -- 3. The Origins of Islamic Morality and Ethics -- 4. Virtue Ethics and Moral Character Related to Medical Profession -- 5. Regulation of Medical Profession and Medical Research -- Part II. The Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics with an Islamic Perspective -- 6. Autonomy -- 7. Nonmaleficence -- 8. Beneficence -- 9. Justice: The Lost Value -- Part III. Selected Topics -- 10. Abortion -- 11. Assisted Reproductive Technology: Islamic Perspective -- 12. Ethical Issues in Genetics (Premarital Counseling, Genetic Testing, Genetic Engineering, Cloning and Stem Cell Therapy, DNA Fingerprinting -- 13. Organ Transplantation -- 14. Brain Death -- 15. End-of-Life Care -- Glossary.
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- Open access
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- e-Book
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- Online
Debates About Neuroethics : Perspectives on Its Development, Focus, and Future
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Eric Racine, John Aspler, editors.
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Springer
, 2017.
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This is the first book entirely dedicated to exploring issues associated with the nature of neuroethics. It reflects on some of the underlying assumptions in neuroethics, and the implications of those assumptions with respect to training and education programs, research activities, policy engagement, public discourse, teaching, ethics consultation and mentoring, to name but a few areas of interest. Internationally respected and emerging leaders in the area have taken up the pen to express and d…
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- Racine, Eric
- Aspler, John
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- Eric Racine, John Aspler, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages)
- Series Title
- Advances in neuroethics
- ISBN
- 9783319546513
- 9783319546506 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ethics, Research
- Neurosciences - ethics
- Abstract
- This is the first book entirely dedicated to exploring issues associated with the nature of neuroethics. It reflects on some of the underlying assumptions in neuroethics, and the implications of those assumptions with respect to training and education programs, research activities, policy engagement, public discourse, teaching, ethics consultation and mentoring, to name but a few areas of interest. Internationally respected and emerging leaders in the area have taken up the pen to express and debate their views about the development, focus and future of neuroethics. They share their analyses and make recommendations regarding how neuroscience could more effectively explore and tackle its philosophical, ethical, and societal implications.
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- Part I: Development and History of Neuroethics / Section Introduction: Development and History of Neuroethics / Eric Racine (et al.) -- Nudging Toward Neuroethics: Prehistory and Foundations / Albert R. Jonsen -- Evolution of Neuroethics / Walter Glannon -- Toward a Pragmatic Neuroethics in Theory and Practice / Joseph J. Fins -- Born Free: The Theory and Practice of Neuroethical Exceptionalism / Fernando Vidal (et al.) -- Part II: Focus, Theories, and Methodologies in Neuroethics / Section Introduction: Focus, Theories, and Methodologies in Neuroethics / Eric Racine (et al.) -- Theoretical Framing of Neuroethics: The Need for a Conceptual Approach / Kathinka Evers (et al.) -- Neuroethics: A Renewed View of Morality? Intentions and the Moral Point of View / Bernard Baertschi -- Is It Time to Abandon the Strong Interpretation of the Dual-Process Model in Neuroethics? / Veljko Dubljevic -- Neuroethics and Policy at the National Security Interface: A Test Case for Neuroethics Theory and Methodology / Nicholas G. Evans (et al.) -- Part III: The Future of Research Programs, Training, and International Neuroethics / Section Introduction: The Future of Research Programs, Training, and International Neuroethics / Eric Racine (et al.) -- Models of Engagement in Neuroethics Programs: Past, Present, and Future / Laura Specker Sullivan (et al.) -- Future of Neuroethics Research and Training / Tom Buller -- Growing Up with Neuroethics: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons from Being a Graduate Student at a Disciplinary Crossroads / Cynthia Forlini -- Neuroethics Research in Europe / Ralf J. Jox (et al.) -- Neuroethical Engagement on Interdisciplinary and International Scales / John R. Shook (et al.) -- Biopolitics of Neuroethics / Fabrice Jotterand (et al.).
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The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition : Moral Arguments, Economic Reality and Social Analysis
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Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Darlene Fozard Weaver, editors.
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At last, a comprehensive collection of essays that examines and advances ethical evaluations of the controversial and increasingly popular practice of embryo adoption. In the United States alone, 400,000 frozen embryos created for in vitro fertilization exist but are no longer desired for that purpose. What are we morally obliged or permitted to do about these "spare" embryos? More of their genetic parents are considering donating these embryos to others to gestate and raise. This practice is p…
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- Brakman, Sarah-Vaughan
- Weaver, Darlene Fozard
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- Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Darlene Fozard Weaver, editors
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2007
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 326 p.)
- Series Vol.
- 95
- v. 6
- Series Title
- Philosophy and medicine
- Catholic studies in bioethics
- ISBN
- 9781402062117
- 9781402062100 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 0376-7418
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Adoption
- Catholicism
- Embryo Disposition - ethics
- Embryo Transfer - ethics
- Abstract
- At last, a comprehensive collection of essays that examines and advances ethical evaluations of the controversial and increasingly popular practice of embryo adoption. In the United States alone, 400,000 frozen embryos created for in vitro fertilization exist but are no longer desired for that purpose. What are we morally obliged or permitted to do about these "spare" embryos? More of their genetic parents are considering donating these embryos to others to gestate and raise. This practice is politically volatile (figuring in debates about embryonic stem cells) and medically and morally complex. At the present time within the Roman Catholic Church there is no official teaching on embryo adoption. Catholic ethical analyses grapple with the way embryo adoption comports with respect for embryonic human life yet challenges Catholic moral critiques of assisted reproductive technologies. This volume brings together leading philosophers and theologians to engage Catholic debates about embryo adoption in an interactive format. The editors, a philosopher bioethicist and a moral theologian, provide a helpful overview of the practice and the arguments surrounding embryo adoption. They engage neglected Catholic ethical resources and issues to advance the current debate and chart new directions in Catholic moral thinking about this intriguing practice. The volume also includes a description of embryo adoption from a physician practitioner along with reflections from a couple who successfully adopted an embryo.
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- Part I. The Morality of Embryo Adoption -- Introduction: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition -- Arguments Against -- Heterologous Embryo Transfer: Metaphor and Morality -- Human Embryo Transfer and the Theology of the Body -- On the Moral Objectionability of Human Embryo Adoption -- Arguments For -- Could Human Embryo Transfer Be Intrinsically Immoral? -- Ethical Considerations in Defense of Embryo Adoption -- Real Mothers and Good Stewards: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption -- Part II. The Debate Engaged -- Embryo Adoption Theologically Considered: Bodies, Adoption, and the Common Good -- From Rescuing Frozen Embryos to Respecting the Limits of Nature: Reframing the Embryo Adoption Debate -- Embryo Adoption? An Egalitarian Perspective -- A Protestant View: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition -- Part III. Morality in the Practice -- Development of the National Embryo Donation Center -- An Embryo Adoptive Father's Perspective -- An Embryo Adoptive Mother's Perspective -- Ethical and Religious Directives for a Catholic Embryo Adoption Agency: A Thought Experiment -- Embryo Adoption and the Law -- Artificial Wombs and Embryo Adoption.
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- e-Book
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Health Without Borders : Epidemics in the Era of Globalization
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Paolo Vineis.
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This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our environment is changing rapidly, with tremendous consequences for our health. These changes produce complex and constantly varying interactions between the biosphere, economy, climate and human health, for…
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- Vineis, Paolo
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- Paolo Vineis
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- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 108 pages)
- ISBN
- 9783319524467
- 9783319524450 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Environment
- Epidemics
- Global Health
- Health Status Disparities
- Internationality
- Public Health
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Abstract
- This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our environment is changing rapidly, with tremendous consequences for our health. These changes produce complex and constantly varying interactions between the biosphere, economy, climate and human health, forcing us to approach future global health trends from a new perspective. Preventive actions to improve health, especially in low-income countries, are essential if our future is going to be a sustainable one. After a period of undeniable improvement in the health of the world's population, this improvement is likely to slow down and we will experience--at least locally--crises of the same magnitude as have been observed in financial markets since 2009. There is instability in health systems, which will worsen if preventive and buffering mechanisms do not take on a central role. We cannot exclude the possibility that the allied forces of poverty, social inequalities, climate change, industrial food and lack of governance will lead to a deterioration in the health of large sectors of the population. In low-income countries, while many of the traditional causes of death (infectious diseases) are still highly prevalent, other threats typical of affluent societies (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) are increasing. Africa is not only affected by malaria, TB and HIV, but also by skyrocketing rates of cancer. The book argues that the current situation requires effective and coordinated multinational interventions guided by the principle of health as a common good. An entirely competition-driven economy cannot--by its very nature--address global challenges that require full international cooperation. A communal global leadership is called for. Paolo Vineis is Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College. His current research activities focus on examining biomarkers of disease risk as well as studying the effects of climate change on non-communicable diseases. "From morality to molecules, environment to equity, climate change to cancer, and politics to pathology, this is a wonderful tour of global health: consistently presented in a clear, readable format. Really, an important contribution." Professor Sir Michael Marmot Director, Institute of Health Equity University College London Author of "The Health Gap". "This book is a salutary and soundly argued reminder that the "common good" is not simply what remains after individuals and groups have appropriated the majority of societal resources: it is in fact the foundation on which any society rests and without which it collapses." Rodolfo Saracci Senior Visiting Scientist International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
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- 1. The Double Debt: Economic and Environmental -- 2. An Overview of What Global Health Is -- 3. Food -- 4. Climate Change -- 5. The Environment -- 6. The Economic Crisis -- 7. Cancer: A Time Bomb in Poor Countries -- 8. The Epigenetic Landscape -- 9. The Political Choices -- 10. Public Health as a Common Good.
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Moral Acquaintances and Moral Decisions : Resolving Moral Conflicts in Medical Ethics
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by Stephen S. Hanson.
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Springer Science+Business Media
, c2009.
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- Hanson, Stephen S.
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- by Stephen S. Hanson
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2009
- Series Vol.
- v. 103
- Series Title
- Philosophy and medicine
- ISBN
- 9789048125081
- 9789048125074 (alk. paper)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Cultural Diversity
- Ethics, Medical
- Decision Making - ethics
- Morals
- Contents
- Justifying moral claims in a pluralistic society -- Engelhardt and the content-free (?) principle of permission -- Four-principles approach: an appeal to the common morality for resolution and justification -- Casuistry in a pluralistic society -- Moral acquaintanceships as a means of the conflict resolution.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Public Health Policy and Ethics
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28976
edited by Michael Boylan.
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Springer Science+Business Media
, c2005.
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- Online
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- Author
- Boylan, Michael
- Responsibility
- edited by Michael Boylan
- Place of Publication
- [Dordrecht]
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2005
- Series Vol.
- 19
- ISBN
- 9781402022074
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ethics, Medical
- Public Health
- Health Policy
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medical ethics
- Public health
- Social sciences
- Contents
- International public health, morality, politics, poverty, war, disease / Michael Boylan -- Pt. 1. Morality and politics -- Personal or public health / Muireann Quigley, John Harris -- Exploring the philosophical foundations of the human rights approach to International public health ethics / Kristen Hessler -- Moral interests, privacy, and medical research / Deryck Beyleveld, Shaun D. Pattinson -- Torture and public health / Wanda Teays -- Exporting the Culture of Life / Laura Purdy -- Pt. II. Money and poverty -- International health inequalities and global justice / Norman Daniels -- Poverty, human rights, and just distribution / John-Stewart Gordon -- Why should we help the poor / Christian Illies -- Health care justice, the social insurance approach / David Cummiskey -- Investments, universal ownership, and public health / Henrik Syse -- Pt. III. Medical need and response -- Toward control of infectious disease / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.] -- Shaping ethical guidelines for an influenze pandemic / Rosemarie Tong -- TB matters more / Michael J. Selgelid, Paul M. Kelly, Adrian Sleigh -- Ethics of management of gender atypical organisation in children and adolescents / Simona Giordano -- Clean water / Michael Boyland.
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Reproductive Ethics : New Challenges and Conversations
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41700
Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Paul Burcher, editors.
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, 2017.
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This book summarizes the contributions at an April 2016 conference held at Albany Medical College, Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations. Reproductive ethics does not suffer from a lack of challenging issues, yet a few "hot button" issues such as abortion and surrogacy seem to attract most of the attention, while other issues and dilemmas remain relatively underdeveloped in bioethics literature. The goal of this book is to explore and expand the range of topics addressed in repr…
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- Campo-Engelstein, Lisa
- Burcher, Paul
- Responsibility
- Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Paul Burcher, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 176 pages) : 3 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319526300
- 9783319526294 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Abortion, Induced - ethics
- Bioethical Issues
- Ethics, Medical
- Fertility Preservation - ethics
- Genetic Counseling
- Prenatal Diagnosis - ethics
- Reproductive Health
- Abstract
- This book summarizes the contributions at an April 2016 conference held at Albany Medical College, Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations. Reproductive ethics does not suffer from a lack of challenging issues, yet a few "hot button" issues such as abortion and surrogacy seem to attract most of the attention, while other issues and dilemmas remain relatively underdeveloped in bioethics literature. The goal of this book is to explore and expand the range of topics addressed in reproductive ethics. This is a multi-disciplinary book bringing together philosophers, clinicians, sociologists, anthropologists, and other scholars whose research or clinical interests touch reproductive issues. The results of this compilation are a comprehensive and unique discussion of the evolving issues in the rapidly changing field. The majority of the popular reproductive ethics anthologies were published at least 10 years ago. The field of reproductive ethics would benefit from a new anthology that addresses some of the perennial dilemmas in reproductive ethics (e.g. abortion, sex selection) from updated perspectives and that also covers new technologies that have emerged only in the last few years, such as social egg freezing.
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- Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations Introduction -- Part I. Genetic Testing and Enhancement -- Zooming Out: Solidarity in the Moral Imagination of Genetic Counseling -- Enhancing Future Children: How It Might Happen, Whether It Should -- The Decision to Know: Pregnancy and Epistemic Harm -- Part II. Fertility Preservation -- Egg Freezing and the Feminist Quest for Equality in the Workplace -- Fertility Preservation in Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth and Adolescents -- Part III. Childbirth -- Rights and Realities in U.S. Maternity Care -- The Periviable Cesarean Section: Can a Case Be Made for Expanding Beneficence in Decision-Making? -- Part IV. Abortion, Surrogacy, and Circumcision -- “Teaching Morality by Teaching Science:” Religiosity and Abortion Regret -- My Child, Your Womb, Our Contract: The Failure of Contract Law to Protect Parties in Gestational Surrogacy -- Vulvar Nick and Metzitzah b’peh: Punishment or Harm Reduction?
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- e-Book
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- Online
Toward a Small Family Ethic : How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation
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Travis N. Rieder.
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, c2016.
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This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global. Its analysis and data summarize the ecological costs of having children, presenting ethical dilemmas for prospective parents in an era of competition for scarce resources, huge disparities of wealth and poverty, and unsustainable practices putting irreparable stress on the planet. Questions of individual responsibility and integrity as well as personal m…
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- Rieder, Travis N
- Responsibility
- Travis N. Rieder
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 68 p.)
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783319338712
- 9783319338699 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- 2192-3701 (e)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Climate Change
- Family Planning Policy
- Population Density
- Reproduction - ethics
- Reproductive Rights
- Abstract
- This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global. Its analysis and data summarize the ecological costs of having children, presenting ethical dilemmas for prospective parents in an era of competition for scarce resources, huge disparities of wealth and poverty, and unsustainable practices putting irreparable stress on the planet. Questions of individual responsibility and integrity as well as personal moral and procreative issues are examined carefully against larger and more long-range concerns. The author's assertion that even modest efforts toward reducing global fertility rates would help curb carbon emissions, slow rising global temperatures, and forestall large-scale climate disaster is well reasoned and more than plausible. Among the topics covered: The multiplier effect: food, water, energy, and climate. The role of population in mitigating climate change. The carbon legacy of procreation. Obligations to our possible children. Rights, what is right, and the right to do wrong. The moral burden to have small families. Toward a Small Family Ethic sounds a clarion call for bioethics students and working bioethicists. This brief, thought-rich volume steers readers toward challenges that need to be met, and consequences that will need to be addressed if they are not.
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- 1. Global Population and Public Health -- 2. What Can I Do? Small Effects and the Collective Action Worry -- 3. Individual Obligation -- 4. Challenges to Procreative Obligation -- 5. Toward a Small Family Ethic.
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- e-Book
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- Online
