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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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This book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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The Ethics of Vaccination
This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from ...
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