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  • Healthcare and Food

    Epistemology, Ethics and Law

    Edited by Francesco Bruno, Marta Bertolaso, Adriano Fabris ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book draws critical connections between food, health, and the environment, redefining our understanding of nutrition as a dynamic interface that shapes human well-being. As the need for a holistic approach to "food health", ie. the relationship between well-being and nutrition, is increasingly becoming more pressing, this volume brings together interdisciplinary contributions that advocate ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Healthcare in the Digital Age

    Perspectives for Sustainable Innovation and Assessment

    Edited by Marta Bertolaso, Maria Laura Ilardo, Jaume Ribera ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between digital technology and healthcare delivery, emphasising sustainable innovation in health services. It explores how digital technologies improve healthcare outcomes, enhance patient and community experiences, and streamline healthcare management, while addressing ethical, philosophical, and policy challenges tied to ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • A Critical Reflection on Automated Science

    Will Science Remain Human?

    Edited by Marta Bertolaso, Fabio Sterpetti ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides a critical reflection on automated science and addresses the question whether the computational tools we developed in last decades are changing the way we humans do science. More concretely: Can machines replace scientists in crucial aspects of scientific practice? The contributors to this book re-think and refine some of the main concepts by which science is understood, drawing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Digital Humanism

    A Human-Centric Approach to Digital Technologies

    Edited by Marta Bertolaso, Luca Capone, Carlos Rodríguez-Lluesma ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an accessible and up to date overview of the foundational issues about both emerging constructive understandings of the digital era and still hidden and ignored aspects that could instead be dramatically relevant in the future, in the process of a technological humanism. The book offers relevant scientific and ethical questions bringing together professionals and researchers, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rethinking Cancer

    A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era

    Edited by Bernhard Strauss, Marta Bertolaso, Ingemar Ernberg, Mina J. Bissell ...
    Series series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    Leading scientists argue for a new paradigm for cancer research, proposing a complex systems view of cancer supported by empirical evidence.Current consensus in cancer research explains cancer as a disease caused by specific mutations in certain genes. After dramatic advances in genome sequencing, never before have we known so much about the individual cancer cell--and yet never before has it been ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Personalized Medicine in the Making

    Philosophical Perspectives from Biology to Healthcare

    Edited by Chiara Beneduce, Marta Bertolaso ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a multidisciplinary look at the much-debated concept of “personalized medicine”. By combining a humanistic and a scientific approach, the book builds up a multidimensional way to understand the limits and potentialities of a personalized approach in medicine and healthcare. The book reflects on personalized medicine and complex diseases, the relationship between personalized ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Cancer

    A Dynamic and Relational View

    by Marta Bertolaso ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Since the 1970s, the origin of cancer is being explored from the point of view of the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT), focusing on genetic mutations and clonal expansion of somatic cells. As cancer research expanded in several directions, the dominant focus on cells remained steady, but the classes of genes and the kinds of extra-genetic factors that were shown to have causal relevance in the onset ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Hand

    Perception, Cognition, Action

    Edited by Marta Bertolaso, Nicola Di Stefano ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Drawing on shared research experiences and collaborative projects, this book offers a broad and timely perspective on research on the hand and its current challenges. It especially emphasizes the interdisciplinary context in which researchers need to be trained in contemporary science. From language to psychology, from neurology to the social sciences, and from art to philosophy and religion, the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Biological Robustness

    Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences

    Edited by Marta Bertolaso, Silvia Caianiello, Emanuele Serrelli ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. It tackles many philosophical and conceptual issues and casts an outlook on the future challenges of robustness studies in the context of a practice-oriented philosophy of science. The focus of discussion is on concrete case studies. These highlight the necessity of a level-dependent description of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Cancer Stem Cells

    Philosophy and Therapies

    by Lucie Laplane ...
    An innovative theory proposes a new therapeutic strategy to break the stalemate in the war on cancer. It is called cancer stem cell (CSC) theory, and Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combines biology, biomedical history, and philosophy.Rather than treat cancer by aggressively trying to eliminate all cancerous cells—with harmful ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Ethical Counselling and Medical Decision-Making in the Era of Personalised Medicine

    A Practice-Oriented Guide

    Edited by Virginia Sanchini, Giovanni Boniolo ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book offers an overview of the main questions arising when biomedical decision-making intersects ethical decision-making. It reports on two ethical decision-making methodologies, one addressing the patients, the other physicians. It shows how patients’ autonomous choices can be empowered by increasing awareness of ethical deliberation, and at the same time it supports healthcare professionals ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    by Sibel Yildirim ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells are mature cells that have been genetically reprogrammed so that they return to their embryonic state. It is not yet known if iPS stem cells and embryonic stem cells differ significantly. Today many fundamental belief systems in biology are shifting towards accepting that mature body cells can be reverted to an embryonic state without the help of eggs or ... Read more

    $49.49 USD