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Artificial Intelligence and Simulation

This volume is the proceedings of AIS 2004. The AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems (AIS) 2004 C- ference ...

Autonomy : In the Law

Autonomy in the Law considers one of the most important benefits of the rule of law. Juxtaposing European and American conceptions ...

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, ...

Bioethics in a Small World

Bioethics has addressed many of the issues that arise in the context of globalisation. This book presents the results of ...

Competence Assessment in Dementia

The increasing proportion of demented elderly in populations, debates over patient's rights and autonomy, and the growing ...

Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

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

Developmental State Building : The Politics of Emerging Economies

This book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy ...

Dynamics in Logistics : First International Conference, LDIC 2007, Bremen, Germany, August 2007, Proceedings

This book comprises the edited proceedings of the first International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics LDIC 2007. The ...

Emerging States at Crossroads

This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding ...

Enabling Social Europe

The study is distinguished by a unique collaboration of social and economic policy experts coming from a wide range of disciplines: ...

Ethics and Intersex

The book begins with introductory chapters on the etiology of intersex conditions, conceptual clarification, legal issues, ...

Evidence-Based Medical Ethics : Cases for Practice-Based Learning

In Evidence-Based Medical Ethics: Cases for Practice-Based Learning, the authors address what has been missing in existing ...

Foundations of Trusted Autonomy

This book establishes the foundations needed to realize the ultimate goals for artificial intelligence, such as autonomy ...

Genetic Democracy : Philosophical Perspectives

GENETIC DEMOCRACY involves an in-depth analysis of the ethical, social and philosophical issues related to modern genetic ...

Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations

All students and advocates of human rights will be interested in this concerted exploration of the human rights moral obligations ...

Machine Ethics

This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy. ...

Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility

The concept of genuine responsibility, recognizing the complexity of health care and the need for stakeholder-specific interpretations ...

Medical Law and Moral Rights

Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issue arising in modern medical practice. Do patients undergoing intolerable ...

Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibilit

This book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. ...

Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

1 Historical Introduction INTRODUCTION This chapter is mainly about the history of medicine and its ethics. As usually c- ...

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