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  • The Transhumanist Reader

    Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future

    Edited by Max More, Natasha Vita-More ...
    The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinkingThe rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address key philosophical arguments for and against ... Read more

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  • Better than Human

    The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human? Should we view our biology as fixed or should we try to improve on it? College students are already taking cognitive enhancement drugs. The U.S. army is already working to develop drugs and technologies to produce "super soldiers." Scientists already know how to use genetic engineering ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Ethics, Aging, and Society

    The Critical Turn

    by Martha B. Holstein, PhD, Mark Waymack, PhD, Jennifer A. Parks, PhD ...
    "Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-organized volume begins theoretically and offers new ways of thinking about ethics that can handle the complexities and realities of aging in particular social contexts."--Choice"This new research-based book, by experts in the field of ethics, is ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Fundamental Aspects of Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues in Nursing 2nd Edition

    by Sally Carvalho ...
    Series Book 19 - Fundamental Aspects of Nursing
    This popular title from the Fundamental Aspects of Nursing series has been revised and updated to reflect the advances in the field. Vital reading for all student nurses to help them develop an understanding of the myriad of dilemmas in professional practice and ensure they meet professional standards. This book will outline the implications and application of the relevant recent legislation that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death

    Edited by Steven Luper ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This volume meets the increasing interest in a range of philosophical issues connected with the nature and significance of life and death, and the ethics of killing. What is it to be alive and to die? What is it to be a person? What must time be like if we are to persist? What makes one life better than another? May death or posthumous events harm the dead? The chapters in this volume address ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Schizophrenia

    by Henry A. Nasrallah, MD, Donald J. Smeltzer, MA ...
    The recent development of new classes of psychoactive drugs has led to advances in the treatment of schizophrenia. This handy prescribing guide also discusses the complexities in diagnosing this debilitating mental disorder. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Medical Ethics

    Edited by Michael Boylan ...
    The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the latest developments. This new edition has been greatly revised and updated, with half of the sections written specifically for this new volume.An accessible introduction for beginners, offering a combination of important established essays and new essays ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Beyond Price

    Essays on Birth and Death

    by J. David Velleman ...
    In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shaping Our Selves

    On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking

    by Erik Parens ...
    When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness. The positions that participants adopt in debates regarding such ancient ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • On the Nature of Health

    An Action-Theoretic Approach

    by L.Y Nordenfelt ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory. What emerges from the study is a concept 'of health based on an action-theoretic foundation. A person's health is characterized as his ability to achieve his vital goals. The general conception is not new. This study ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • ICU Resource Allocation in the New Millennium

    Will We Say "No"?

    Edited by David Crippen ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Intensive care medicine is one of the fastest growing services provided by hospitals and perhaps one of the most expensive. Yet in response to the global financial crisis of the last few years, healthcare funding is slowing or decreasing throughout the world.How we manage health care resources in the intensive care unit (ICU) now and in a future that promises only greater cost constraints is the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Technicians of Human Dignity

    Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth

    by Gaymon Bennett ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Technicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling ... Read more

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