Hens contends that this is necessarily an ethical activity.

Jonathan Pugh offers a new framework for thinking about the concept of autonomy, grounded in an understanding of the different roles that rational beliefs and rational desires have to play.

Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.

La obra es fruto del trabajo de investigación histórica del Hno. Ventosa con la que ha logrado el grado de Doctor en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

The contributors to this book include leading experts in epidemiological methods, ethics, health economics, health status measurement and the valuation of health states.

This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR).

Contains a collection of essays exploring human dignity and bioethics, a concept crucial to today's discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular.

Alex John London defends a conception of the common good that grounds a moral imperative with two requirements.

Desde el título, La manipulación genética, una nueva forma de eugenesia, ya se nos lanza el interrogante de si se puede considerar la manipulación genética como una herramienta para proceder a aplicar la eugenesia.

This open access book is a unique resource for health professionals who are interested in understanding the philosophical foundations of their daily practice.