"Bioethics in Medicine and Society" ed. by Thomas F. Heston, Sujoy Ray

This volume is wide-ranging, with additional chapters on the ethics of geoengineering, complementary and alternative medicine, and end-of-life ethical dilemmas. Readers with find that the field of bioethics has broad implications throughout society from our most intimate interpersonal relationships to policies being implemented on a global scale.

Bioethics is the application of ethics to the broad field of medicine, including the ethics of patient care, research, and public health.
In this book, prominent authors from around the globe discuss the complexities of bioethics as they apply to our current world. Topics range from the philosophical bioethics of the evolution of thinking about marriage from a religious standpoint to the bioethics of radiation protection to value-based medicine and cancer screening for breast cancer.

Contents
1. The Quality of Life in the Light of Immanence and Its Sacrality in the Light of Transcendence
2. The Results Are Positive for Both Sides in the Great Majority of Cases When Organ Donor Families and Their Recipients Decide to Communicate with Each Other, US Experience in Tens of Thousands of Cases Shows
3. End-of-Life Ethical Dilemmas
4. The Psychological Impact on Families of Departed Patients with Infectious Diseases
5. Innovation and Research in Cardiac Surgery: Bioethical Aspects
6. Ethical Concerns Regarding Breast Cancer Screening
7. Ethical Evaluation of Clinical Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
8. Evaluation of the Research Protocol by Ethical Committee
9. Ethics in Laboratory Medicine: An Overview of Considerations for Ethical Issues
10. Biomedical Ethics and Communicative Maxims: Case Studies in Outpatient Health
11. Parkinsonism and Potential of Mucuna Beans
12. Ethical Values in Radiation Protection
13. Medical Act and Negligence: Ethical Concerns
14. Value-Based Healthcare
15. Bioethical Implications and Major Infrastructure Works
16. Climate Change: A Forced Choice Ethical Paradigm
17. The Ethical Desirability of Geoengineering: Challenges to Justice
18. Ethical Considerations for Global Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Assistance Programs
19. Internet of Things and Distributed Denial of Service as Risk Factors in Information Security
20. Evolution of Catholic Marriage Morality in the Twentieth Century from a Baby-Making Contract to a Love-Making Covenant - Part I: Era of John Paul II
21. Medical Ethics
22. The New Challenges for Medical Ethics
23. Plato in Contemporary Medical Ethics: Holism and Care
24. Evolution of Catholic Marriage Morality in the Twentieth Century from a Baby-Making Contract to a Love-Making Covenant - Part II: Code of Cannon Law to Vatican II


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