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Altering Nature : Volume One: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates

Volume One, Concepts of 'Nature' and 'The Natural' in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that ...

Altering Nature :Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy

The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood ...

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate

This collection of essays by some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope’s statements, the moral ...

Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care : An International Perspective

Autonomy and Human Rights in Healthcare: An International Perspective is a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, ...

Elisha Bartletts Philosophy of Medicine

This volume is a scholar's edition of the first systematic American work on the philosophy of medicine, An Essay on the ...

Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine

This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains ...

Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? How Scientific Evidence Shapes Our Understanding And Use Of Medicine

This book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, ...

Humanizing Modern Medicine : An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned ...

Le bouddhisme et la médecine traditionnelle de lInde = Buddhism and traditional medicine from India

This work aims to return to ancient India, to the sources of Buddhism. It is a question of comparing the religious bodies ...

Le silence de l’aiguille : Quand le Yi Jing éclaire les transformations induites par l’acupuncture = The silence of the needle: When Yi Jing illuminates the transformations induced by acupuncture

This book deals with change, a notion little approached in the West. It draws on the Yi Jing, the classic of changes, as ...

Medical Decisions, Estrogen and Aging

This book is unique in that it integrates core findings from within the Decision Sciences and Evidence Based Medicine in ...

Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers : Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern

This book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around ...

The Aetiology of Deep Venous Thrombosis : A Critical, Historical and Epistemological Survey

What we now call ‘deep venous thrombosis’ (DVT) has been studied in diverse ways during the last 200–300 years. Each ...

The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease

This book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, ...

The Contingent Nature of Life : Bioethics and Limits of Human Existence

This volume explores the different ways in which the contingency of life, and especially human life, is relevant for ethical ...

The Ethics of Vaccination

This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from ...

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