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Clinical Bioethics

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics ...

Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

In this book, the author develops a novel justificatory framework for making judgments of decisional competence to consent ...

Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance

This book represents an introduction to and overview of the diverse aspects of the ethical challenges confronting companies ...

Cutting-edge issues in Business Ethics : Continental Challenges to Tradition and Practice

This volume is one of the very few publications dedicated to the challenges that Continental philosophy poses to the field ...

Democracy in an Age of Globalisation

In Democracy in an Age of Globalisation, Otfried Höffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process ...

Designing a Human Future with Machines

What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world's most complex problems can ...

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ...

Education in the Era of Globalization

Education seems to have lost its orientation in Western culture and is in disarray all over the globe in time of global transitions. ...

Education, Arts, and Morality

Inspired by Howard Gruber’s Evolving Systems Approach, these studies explore creativity in several domains. The idea that ...

Efficiency, Justice and Care

This book attempts to answer the question how health care can be incorporated into a comprehensive theory of justice, while ...

Efficiency, Justice and Care : Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care

A very extensive overview of some prominent modern theories of justice and their application to resource distribution in ...

Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

This book reflects philosophically about the socio-political dimension of economics. Part I provides normative reflections ...

Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age

This book takes off where the second ended to examine ethical, social, and policy challenges stemming from the emergence ...

Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age

This book takes off where the second ended to examine ethical, social, and policy challenges stemming from the emergence ...

Ethics Expertise

This volume examines philosophical conceptions of ethics expertise from both historical and contemporary perspectives, including ...

Ethics, Hunger and Globalization

The book concludes that much of the rhetoric by policy makers is not followed up with appropriate action, and discusses the ...

Expanding Horizons in Bioethics

What are the resources and needs, the strengths and the vulnerabilities of patients, of society, or of nature? How do we ...

Faith, Finance, and Economy Beliefs and Economic Well-Being

This book seeks to foster a multidisciplinary understanding of the ties between faith, financial intermediation, and economic ...

Forensic Ethics and the Expert Witness

The expert witness’ job is often described as a balancing act: duty to clients on the one hand, duty to society on the ...

Freedom and Value : Freedom’s Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value

Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, ...

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