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Pavadinimas: ABORTION, DOCTORS AND THE LAW SOME ASPECTS OF THE LEGAL REGULATION OF ABORTION IN ENGLAND FROM 1803 TO 1982
Autoriai: JOHN KEOWN
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ISBN: 0-521-34574-X
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202185
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     Ranging from the beginning of the last century to the past decade, this book focusses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England. Little academic attention has hitherto been given to the development and scope of abortion law in England, the formative influence of the medical profession, and the impact of the law on medical practice. Consequently, Dr Keown considers the performance of abortion by doctors, and the influence the medical profession had on the restriction of the law in the nineteenth century and on its relaxation in the twentieth.

     The book does not deal directly with the legal status of the unborn child, the rights and duties of its parents and of the doctors involved in the provision of abortion or the question of the desirability of reform. Rather, adopting a socio-legal
perspective, it considers what the scope of the prohibition of abortion has been and focusses on aspects of professional influence on the evolution of that prohibition, and of professional practice thereunder.

     This book is unique in its expert handling of the legal material and breadth of historical coverage, and is likely to be greeted as an impartial and useful reference work for all those concerned with abortion in its legal, medical and social contexts.


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Pavadinimas: BIOETHICS: AN ANTHOLOGY
Autoriai: EDITED BY HELGA KUHSE, PETER SINGER
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ISBN: 978-1-4051-2948 0
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076433871
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Pavadinimas: BIOETHICS: ANCIENT THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Autoriai: EDITED BY MARK G. KUCZEWSKI, RONALD POLANSKY
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ISBN: 0-262-61177-5
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075033737
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Pavadinimas: CREATION AND ABORTION A STUDY IN MORAL AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY
Autoriai: F.M. KAMM
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ISBN: 0-19-507284-7
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202183
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     Most philosophical discussion of abortion assumes that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person, it has a right to life. Based on a non-consequentialist ethical theory, Creation and Abortion critically examines this widespread view.

     Kamm begins by considering in detail the permissibility of killing in non-abortion cases which are similar to abortion cases. Then, emerging from a broader theory of creating new people responsibly, the question of the permissibility of abortion in many types of pregnancies is considered, including ones resulting from rape, voluntary pregnancy, and pregnancy resulting from a voluntary sex act, even if the fetus is considered a person. Turning to related issues, Kamm explores the implications of this argument for informed consent to abortion; responsibilities in pregnancy that is not aborted; and the significance of extra-uterine gestation devices for the permissibility of abortion.


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Pavadinimas: ETHICS AND RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN A CASE-BASED APPROACH
Autoriai: ERIC KODISH, MD, EDITOR
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ISBN: 0-19-517178-0
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097661
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     "This book provides comprehensive and authoritative insight into the ethical issues of conducting research involving children as participants. Organizing the topical discussion of chapters around specific cases greatly facilitates the understanding of important ethical concepts. The book makes a significant contribution to the education of clinical pediatric investigators and IRB members and to the ethical conduct of research on the health and illness of children."
- Richard E. Behrman, MD, Chair, Committee on the Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Children, Institute of Medicine, 2004
     "Eric Kodish has spent his career treating children with cancer, doing research on pediatric cancers, and reflecting on the ethics of research with children. Kodish has enlisted an all-star roster of pediatrician-ethicists and other distinguished, thoughtful scholars to create an unusual and uncommonly useful book. Replete with case studies and careful ethical analysis, this is a wonderful resource for anyone serious about the ethics of research with children."
- Thomas H. Murray, PhD, President, The Hastings Center
     "This is an important and timely book. As pediatric clinical investigation expands, it is vital to review the ethical underpinnings of studies in children, and to take on challenges of the ethics of ever more complex clinical trials and interventions. The format of the book, presenting case studies at the beginning of each chapter, immediately draws the reader into 'ethical dialogue' and makes reading subsequent analyses vastly more meaningful. This book will be a meaningful read by all who care for the welfare of children."


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Pavadinimas: ETHICS AND RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN: A CASE-BASED APPROACH
Autoriai: EDITED BY ERIC KODISH, MD
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ISBN: 0-19-517178-0
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097661
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Pavadinimas: ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONS: STANDARDS AND CASES
Autoriai: GERALD P. KOOCHER, PATRICIA KEITH-SPIEGEL
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ISBN: 978-0-19-5149111
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076434144
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Pavadinimas: HUMAN CLONING AND HUMAN DIGNITY
Autoriai: FOREWORD BY LEON R. KASS, M.D.
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ISBN: 1-58648-176-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 00307526717
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Pavadinimas: HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS ANN A KIESSLING, SCOTT ANDERSON
Autoriai: ANN A. KIESSLING, SCOTT ANDERSON
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ISBN: 0-7637-2341-X
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075047840
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     The social debate and resulting moratorium by the Bush Administration against federal funding for research involving the creation of human embryos for stem cell therapy prompted the writing of this text. The emerging field of human embryonic stem cell biomedicine crosses many disciplinary boundaries�cell biology, reproductive biology, embryology, molecular biology, endocrinology, immunology, fetal medicine, transplantation medicine, and surgery. This single reference provides basic information from these multiple disciplines as it pertains to the science of stem cells.
     Human Embryonic Stem Cells was written for readers with a basic understanding of cell biology, including medical students, physicians, nurses, veterinarians, and other biomedical scientists who may not be familiar with stem cell science. Due to the newness of the field, some historical perspective is included in the form of scientific endeavors that advanced the field. Some chapters also contain more advanced descriptions of what is known about some cell processes.
     Key historical developments arc presented throughout the text as sidebars enhancing understanding of how the field evolved and providing scientific details important to understanding overall biology.
     Each chapter addresses which important scientific facts are still in need of discovery.
     Diseases that may be treated by stem cell therapy are discussed.
     A final chapter on ethical issues brings sound science to the debate.


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Pavadinimas: INTRODUCING MENTAL HEALTH: A PRACTICAL GUIDE
Autoriai: CAROLINE KINSELLA, CONNOR KINSELLA
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ISBN: 978-1-84310-260 1
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076434199
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Pavadinimas: LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE END-OF-LIFE CARE
Autoriai: PHILLIP M. KLEESPIES
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ISBN: 9-781-5914-70670
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097609
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     Population aging, technological advances, and new sociolegal attitudes are radically changing the meanings and experiences of dying and death. Phillip Kleespies offers us a sober, judicious overview of the novel choices that professionals, patients, and their families must make concerning end-of-life care. Life and Death Decisions helps us to assess where we are and where we are heading.
     - W. Andrew Achenbaum, PhD, Professor of History and Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX; past chair, National Council on the Aging Challenging psychologists to assume a more active role in the care of people who are dying and the ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care, Dr. Kleespies thoroughly reviews the literature, provides well-reasoned arguments dealing with difficult end-of-life issues, and gives practical suggestions for clinical interventions. This book will be an invaluable resource to all mental health practitioners involved in end-of-life care.
     - Mary L. S. Vachon, RN, PhD, psychotherapist in private practice; Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada; Clinical Consultant, Wellspring. Why do so many terminally ill people continue to experience stress and suffering despite advances in palliative care and the affirmation of patients' rights for self-determination? Dr. Kleespies makes an informed and, yes, an urgent case for consideration of psychological factors that can make all the difference in the final phase of life.
     - Robert Kastenbaum, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University,  Tempe; author of The Psychology of Death


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Pavadinimas: LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN END-OF-LIFE CARE
Autoriai: PHILLIP M. KLEESPIES
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ISBN: 1-59147-067-6
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097609
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Pavadinimas: LIFE, LIBERTY AND DEFENSE OF DIGNITY THE CHALLENGE FOR BIOETHICS
Autoriai: LEON R. KASS, M.D.
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ISBN: 1-893554-55-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097623
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     Leon Kass has spent his career taking serious questions seriously, and our national debate on bioethics is the richer for it. At the root of these matters is the fundamental question of what it means to be a human being. Kass's reflections on this topic are informed not only by his training as a scientist but by the wisdom of philosophy, theology and common sense. He is possibly the most thoughtful person in America on the issues discussed in this book.
     - William Bennett;  In a time when many professional bioethicists have become sophisticated apologists for the scientific community or for the biotech industry, I.eon Kass is one of the few who have kept a persistent focus on the central moral issues raised by technological change. A thinker with a marvelous ability to write, teach and engage, he has written a book that is indispensable for understanding the past and future of the biotech revolution.
     - Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man and Our Posthuman Future Life, Liberty ami the Defense of Dignity is the wisest of the burgeoning crop of bioethics books the single best resource for anyone who wants to understand how biotechnology is changing our way of life. I.eon Kass exposes, as only a scientist deeply grounded in the humanities can, the far-reaching implications for our polity of man's increasing mastery over nature.
     - Mary Ann Glendon; Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University


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Pavadinimas: MATTER, MIND, AND MEDICINE: TRANSFORMING THE CLINICAL METHOD
Autoriai: JACQUES KRIEL
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ISBN: 90-420-0799-0
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227310
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Pavadinimas: NATURE ETHICS: AN ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
Autoriai: MARTI KHEEL
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ISBN: 0-7425-5201-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076433611
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     This volume on an ecofeminist perspective on nature ethics represents a more than twenty-five year commitment by environmental philosopher Marti Kheel to bridge the seemingly disparate movements of feminism, environ­mental ethics, and animal liberation. Marti Kheel's work is well known in these fields as the author of major articles that have been published in nu­merous journals and anthologies and translated into several languages. Kheel first developed her critique of the philosophical dualisms that linked environ­mental ethics and animal rights in a 1984 article, "The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair," originally published in Environmental Ethics. In 1982 she cofounded Feminists for Animal Rights......

   


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Pavadinimas: RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES IN THE BIOTECH AGE: WHY WE NEED A GENETIC BILL OF RIGHTS
Autoriai: EDITED BY SHELDON KRIMSKY, PETER SHORETT
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ISBN: 0-7425-4341-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075262755
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Pavadinimas: SHOULD THE BABY LIVE? THE PROBLEM OF HANDICAPPED INFANTS
Autoriai: HELGA KUHSE, PETER SINGER
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ISBN: 0-7512-0313-0
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Pavadinimas: THE EDGE OF LIFE: HUMAN DIGNITY AND CONTEMPORARY BIOETHICS
Autoriai: CHRISTOPHER KACZOR
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ISBN: 1-4020-3155-6
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227389
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Pavadinimas: THE LIMITS AND LIES OF HUMAN GENETIC RESEARCH DANGERS FOR SOCIAL POLICY
Autoriai: JONATHAN MICHAEL KAPLAN
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ISBN: 0-415-92638-6
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097746
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     "A thought-provoking exploration of how the current privileging of the genetic view point limits the range of scientific explanations. A challenging and informative book."
-RUTH HUBBARD, Harvard University, co-author of Exploding the Gene Myth
     "This is a very important book that should be read by anyone concerned with debates about intelligence, homosexuality, mental illness, obesity, and a range of other issues in which public policy is in danger of being driven by simplistic and reac tionary scientism Kaplan clearly and compellingly explains the misleading and generally unsubstantiated nature of claims from human genetics."
-JOHN DUPRE, Birkbeck College, University of London, University of Exeter
     "An especially important book at a time when a prevailing popular assumption is that 'It's all in the genes.' Documenting both the limits and dangers in genetic explanations, Kaplan makes a strong case for recognizing the complexity of behavior and the importance of environmental influences."
-DOROTHY NELKIN, New York University, co-author of The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon
     "This is an engaging and lively book. Kaplan manages to combine a responsible and readable introduction to important theoretical issues behind genetics research with trenchant and well thought out criticisms. His recommendations for social policy are bound to stimulate debate among geneticists, philosophers, and policy analysts."
-STEPHEN M. DOWNES, University of Utah
     In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research: Dangers for Social Policy, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Kaplan argues that genetic research is inadequate to support the conclusions that are often drawn in the media about the genetic causes of such human traits as intelligence, depression, obesity, criminality and violence, and homosexuality. His concern lies in the ways that conclusions about the "genetic causes" of certain human traits can be and do get used in legal, political, and social decision making. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes nor on the environment is sufficient to explain the complex variations among humans.
DONATHAN MICHAEL KAPLAN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.


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Pavadinimas: UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA: INTEGRATING BIOLOGICAL, CLINICAL, AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Autoriai: EDITED BY LAURENCE J. KIRMAYER, ROBERT LEMELSON, MARK BARAD
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ISBN: 978-0-521-726993
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076433772
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     This book explores the individual and collective experiences of trauma from the perspectives of neuroscience, clinical science, and cultural anthropology. Each perspective presents critical and conceptual chal­lenges for the development of an integrative model of the impact of trauma. The first section reviews the neurobiology of fear conditioning and extinction, and the effects of early life stress on the development of neural systems related to vulnerability to persistent effects of trauma. The second section of the book reviews a wide range of clinical approaches to the treatment of the effects of trauma in different populations, includ­ing refugees. The final section of the book presents cultural analyses of personal, social, and political responses to massive trauma and genocidal events in a variety of societies. This work goes well beyond neurobiologi-cal models of conditioned fear and the clinical syndrome of posttraumatic stress disorder to examine how massive traumatic events affect the whole fabric of a society, calling forth collective responses of resilence and moral transformation.


Pavadinimas: WHO LIVES? WHO DIES? ETHICAL CRITERIA IN PATIENT SELECTION
Autoriai: JOHHN F. KILNER
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ISBN: 0-300-04680-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202168
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"Kilner addresses an ethical issue that is becoming increasingly important: haw shall decisions about selecting recipients for scarce life-sustaining medical resources be made? The book contains an extensive discussion of fifteen criteria for patient selection, with the criteria grouped in four categories: social, sociomedical, medical, and personal�An important contribution to the literature in biomedical ethics [that] should be widely read."

Robert Weir, Ethics


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