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Series: The Basics
Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today....
To Be Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics
Alongside a revival of interest in Thomism in philosophy, scholars have realised its relevance when addressing certain contemporary issues in bioethics. This book offers a rigorous interpretation of Aquinas's metaphysics and ethical thought, and highlights its significance to questions in bioethics...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics
This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being. Prusak argues that parents, as procreators, have obligations regarding future children that constrain the liberty of would-be parents to do as they wish. Moreover, these obligations...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
Genetic screening technologies involving pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) raise particular issues about selective reproduction and the welfare of the child to be born. How does selection impact on the identity of the child who is born? Are children who are selected for a particular purpose...
To Be Published September 12th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
Hopes are high that stem cell (SC) research will lead to treatments and cures for some of the most serious diseases affecting humankind today. SC science has been used in a treatment setting in the replacement of patients’ windpipes and in restoring sight to patients who were blind in one eye and...
To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. The professionalisation of medical support services in sport and continuing debates around issues such as performance-enhancing technologies or the health and welfare of athletes mean that all practitioners in...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
This book takes a critical conceptual approach to the jurisprudence of pregnancy, examining how the three concepts of conflict, personhood and property are key to the legal analysis and decision-making surrounding pregnancy. The book begins by questioning the ‘conflict model’ which is often assumed...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Since its passage, the Affordable Care Act has become a political lightning rod. From the passage of the legislation, through to lower court rulings, the Court’s grant of certiorari, and the NFIB v. Sebelius decision itself, interest in this case has been extraordinarily high. In particular, much...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions
To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge
To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge
