Archive for the ‘Bio Ethics’ Category


Symbol The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics

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Book Description: The Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania is the internationally recognized leader in bioethical education and research. Its interdisciplinary faculty is drawn from the fields of medicine, law, nursing, education, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Arthur L. Caplan, the Center’s founding director, is recognized as one of the most influential... Read the story →

Symbol Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice and Policy

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Book Description: Recent advances in the brain sciences have dramatically improved our understanding of brain function. As we find out more and more about what makes us tick, we must stop and consider the ethical implications of this new found knowledge. Will having a new biology of the brain through imaging make us less responsible for our behavior and lose our free will? Should certain brain... Read the story →

Symbol The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics

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Book Description: Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, bioethicists, and advanced students seeking a better understanding of ethics problems in the clinical setting. Each chapter illustrates an... Read the story →

Symbol Atlas of Shoulder Arthroscopy

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Product Description With the huge growth of interest in shoulder surgery has come a realization that some operations are best conducted arthroscopically. This international guide from experts is a practical guide to the considerations involved in each operation. This book is illustrated in colour throughout and features the very latest refinements in techniques from contributing experts. CLICK... Read the story →

Symbol Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics: Decision-Making, Principles, and Cases

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Book Description: 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. At the same time, medical advances are posing complex ethical problems for both patients and professionals. The most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of... Read the story →

Symbol Encyclopedia of Bioethics

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Book Description: When the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics appeared in 1978, the discipline was new and relatively undefined. The second edition, in 1995, kept pace with the rapid changes in the field. Continuing advances in biological and medical research have created the need for yet another edition. Bioethics has become a recognized field, “the interdisciplinary examination... Read the story →

Symbol Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation

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Book Description: Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation. The authors assert that a dramatic shift in societal attitudes toward newborns and... Read the story →

Symbol Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective

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Book Description: Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective applies the best of the Roman Catholic theological and ethical tradition to some of the most controversial and complex bioethical topics that confront contemporary society. Walter and Shannon combine clear, concise and accessible prose with teachable case studies on such issues as reproductive cloning, quality of life and... Read the story →

Symbol Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?

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Book Description: Is there a such thing as a universal right to have children? Should medical assistance to have children be available to everyone? Are all methods of assisted reproduction legitimate? Mary Warnock steers a clear path through the web of complex issues underlying these questions. She analyzes what it means to claim something as a ‘right,’ examines the ethical problems... Read the story →

Symbol Bioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues (Basic Bioethics)

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Book Description: In recent years, bioethicists have worked on government commissions, on ethics committees in hospitals and nursing homes, and as bedside consultants. Because ethical knowledge is based on experience within the field rather than on universal theoretical propositions, it is open to criticism for its lack of theoretical foundation. Once in the clinic, however, ethicists noted the... Read the story →

Symbol Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice and Policy

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Book Description: Recent advances in the brain sciences have dramatically improved our understanding of brain function. As we find out more and more about what makes us tick, we must stop and consider the ethical implications of this new found knowledge. Will having a new biology of the brain through imaging make us less responsible for our behavior and lose our free will? Should certain brain... Read the story →

Symbol Introduction to Bioethics

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Book Description: Introduction to Bioethics is a comprehensive introduction to the broad field of bioethics, focusing on key issues directly relevant to students of modern biological and medical sciences. Ethical issues relating to both plants and animals are covered, drawing out scientific, medical, social and religious concerns. CLICK HERE TO GET THIS BEST MEDICAL BOOK Book Details: * Paperback:... Read the story →

Symbol An Introduction to Genetic Analysis (INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC ANALYSIS

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Book Description: For nearly three decades, from edition to edition, An Introduction to Genetic Analysis (IGA) has evolved side by side with genetic research, providing an experiment based introduction to fundamental concepts that reflects every major laboratory and conceptual breakthrough. With authors who are leading researchers, innovative educators, and acclaimed writers, the book has kept... Read the story →

Symbol The Ethics of Protocells: Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory (Basic Bioethics)

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Product Description: Teams of scientists around the world are racing to create protocells—microscopic, self-organizing entities that spontaneously assemble from simple organic and inorganic materials. The creation of fully autonomous protocells—a technology that can, for all intents and purposes, be considered literally alive—is only a matter of time. This book examines the pressing social... Read the story →

Symbol Bioethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age (Critical Issues in Bioethics)

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Product Description: This excellent introduction to bioethics provides principled moral discussion of today’s medical and scientific breakthroughs. Written to help people understand the challenging, often controversial field of bioethics, this needed work explains and assesses the various secular approaches to bioethics that are influential today. Using currently debated topics in bioethics... Read the story →

Symbol Bioethics: Introduction to History, Methods, and Practice

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Product Description: Bioethics: An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice, Second Edition is the ideal text for both graduate students and professional students in law, medicine, nursing, or other health-related fields who will face bioethical issues in their future careers. It is one of the only texts in the field to cover the history, methodology, and practice of bioethics. The text... Read the story →

Symbol The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape

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Product Description: 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 and continually growing. These complex issues pose a daunting task for professionals in the expanding field of bioethics. But what of the practice of bioethics... Read the story →





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    Camilla’s Roses

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  • Ultrasound books

    handbook of echo doppler interpretation

    Handbook of Echo-Doppler Interpretation

    Book Description: This handbook is intended to help the physician and sonographer to learn echo concepts and techniques in a “user friendly” way,... 

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    Perioperative Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound with DVD

    Book Description: This reference equips you to perform a full range of diagnostic and interventional procedures using ultrasound technology. Written by experts...