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  • Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal

    Edited by Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Bert Gordijn, Mike Clarke ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides an early exploration of the new field of disaster bioethics:examining the ethical issues raised by disasters. Healthcare ethics issues are addressed in the first part of this book. Large-scale casualties lead to decisions about who to treat and who to leave behind, cultural challenges, and communication ethics. The second part focuses on disaster research ethics.With the growing ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care

    Training and Implementing Change

    Edited by Pierre Mallia, Nathan Emmerich, Bert Gordijn, Francesca Pistoia ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book addresses the problems faced by people and hospitals dedicated to providing optimal end-of-life care and asks whether ethicists can function as experts on this subject. Though ethics consultation is a growing practice in medical contexts, difficult questions surrounding the role of ethicists in professional decision-making remain. The chapters in this book examine the nature and ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care

    Edited by Nathan Emmerich, Pierre Mallia, Bert Gordijn, Francesca Pistoia ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the ethics of end of life care, focusing on the kinds of decisions that are commonly made in clinical practice. Specific attention is paid to the intensification of treatment for terminal symptoms, particularly pain relief, and the withdrawal and withholding of care, particularly life-saving or life-prolonging medical care. The book is structured into three sections. The first ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • In Pursuit of Nanoethics

    Edited by Bert Gordijn, Anthony Mark Cutter ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The volume contributes to the ongoing nanoethics debate in four topical areas. The first part tackles questions of what could be called ‘meta-nanoethics’. Its focus lies on basic concepts and the issue of what - if anything - is truly novel and special about the new field of nanoethics or its subject matter. The second part of this volume presents a selection of interesting perspectives on some of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Biobanks and Tissue Research

    The Public, the Patient and the Regulation

    Edited by Christian Lenk, Judit Sándor, Bert Gordijn ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The research field of biobanks and tissue research is highly promising. Many projects around the globe are involved in the collection of human tissue and health data for research purposes. These initiatives are driven by the perspective of decisive breakthroughs in the knowledge of the genetic pathways involved in widespread diseases. However, there are considerable ethical and legal challenges to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Ethics of Cybersecurity

    Edited by Markus Christen, Bert Gordijn, Michele Loi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This work is sorely needed in a world where cybersecurity has become indispensable to protect trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure whilst respecting fundamental values like ... Read more

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  • Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories

    Edited by Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Vilius Dranseika, Bert Gordijn ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in ... Read more

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