Bioethics For Scientists

Author : John A. Bryant,Linda Baggott la Velle,John F. Searle
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0471495328

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Bioethics for Scientists by John A. Bryant,Linda Baggott la Velle,John F. Searle Pdf

A dictionary definition of Bioethics is, 'the ethics, or moral principles and rules of conduct, of medical and biological research'. This book is an introductory text of just biological and not medical bioethics. It covers the ethics of experimentation, including genetic manipulation, in plants and animals; ethics and biodiversity, ethics and the environment. There is increasing interest in bioethics - both in academia and by the media and the general public. Awareness of bioethics is incorporated into Biological / Environmental Science courses, plus the first dedicated modular courses on bioethics are starting up. * Includes case studies * Has questions for students * Chapters include environmental, animal, agricultural and reproductive ethics as well as a wide range of issues regarding genetic manipulation.

Author : John Loike
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780359304196

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Science-Based Bioethics by John Loike Pdf

Science based bioethics. The ethical side to medical and scientific de.cisions

Author : Jonathan D. Moreno,Sam Berger
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aufsatzsammlung
ISBN : PSU:000067092666

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Progress in Bioethics by Jonathan D. Moreno,Sam Berger Pdf

Leading scholars debate politically progressive perspectives on bioethics and the implications for society, politics, and science in the twenty-first century.

Author : David C. Thomasma,Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521555566

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Birth to Death by David C. Thomasma,Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner Pdf

Biology has been advancing with explosive pace over the last few years and in so doing has raised a host of ethical issues. This book, aimed at the general reader, reviews the major advances of recent years in biology and medicine and explores their ethical implications. From birth to death the reader is taken on a tour of human biology - covering genetics, reproduction, development, transplantation, aging, dying and also the use of animals in research and the impact of human populations on this planet. In each chapter there is a sketch of a field's most recent scientific advances, combined with discussions of the ethical and moral principles and implications for social frameworks and public policy raised by those advances. Anybody interested or concerned about the ethical dilemmas caused by advances in science and medicine should read this book.

Author : Sture Judi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786340948

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The Ethics And Biosecurity Toolkit For Scientists by Sture Judi Pdf

This book is designed to be an easy-to-use guide to understanding the ethical and biosecurity implications of life science research. It provides a framework that will enable scientists, lab managers, researchers, students and teachers to anticipate how research may be used to cause harm, and to identify the steps that can be taken to minimise this risk. Life science research is covered by two international weapons treaties and the tools presented in this book will help scientists and researchers to meet their responsibilities under these conventions. This book will help you: Assess real and potential risks in relation to your workIdentify and implement a range of relevant ethical principles that need to be considered in your workUse an ethical framework to protect your work from misuse by others. If you've never been sure of how ethics relates to your work this toolkit will help you understand the challenges you do indeed face. Real-world case studies of biosecurity risks and failures will help scientists and all those who work to support science at all levels come to a new understanding of the widespread potential for misuse of research in the life sciences. By asking the questions set out in this book, scientists will be better able to recognise and reduce these risks. This framework is designed to be useful for senior scientists as well as students, and all researchers in between.

Author : John Loike,Ruth Fischbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692823492

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Science-Based Bioethics by John Loike,Ruth Fischbach Pdf

This book has two primary aims: to analyze how advancing discoveries uncover or elicit bioethical concerns and challenges, and to provide the essential scientific background and bioethical information that allows basic scientists, healthcare professionals, and clinical researchers to better comprehend, appreciate, and address the complex bioethical dilemmas that our society confronts.

Author : Jonathan Beever,Nicolae Morar
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781612492704

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Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy by Jonathan Beever,Nicolae Morar Pdf

In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science," the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an engaging and accessible way. Addressing a mixed public audience, the authors go beyond dry theory to explore some of the difficult moral questions that face scientists and policy-makers every day. The introduction presents a theoretical framework for the book, defining the term "bioethics" as extending well beyond human well-being to wider relations between humans, nonhuman animals, the environment, and biotechnologies. Three sections then explore the complex relationship between moral value, scientific knowledge, and policy making. The first section starts with thoughts on nonhuman animal pain and moves to a discussion of animal understanding. The second section explores climate change and the impact of "green" nanotechnology on environmental concerns. The final section begins with dialog about ethical issues in nanotechnology, moves to an exploration of bio-banks (a technology with broad potential medical and environmental impact), and ends with a survey of the impact of biotechnologies on (synthetic) life itself. Contents: Part 1: Animals: Moral agency, moral considerability, and consciousness (Daniel Kelly) and From minds to minding (Mark Bernstein); Animal Pain: What is it and why does it matter? (Bernard Rollin). Part 2: Environment: The future of environmental ethics (Holmes Rolston III); Climate change, human rights, and the trillionth ton of carbon (Henry Shue); Ethics, environment, and nanotechnology (Barbara Karn). Part 3: Biotechnologies: Nanotechnologies: Science and society (James Leary); Ethical issues in constructing and using bio-banks (Eric Meslin); Synthetic life: A new industrial revolution (Gregory Kaebnick).

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309676632

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An Examination of Emerging Bioethical Issues in Biomedical Research by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy Pdf

On February 26, 2020, the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a 1-day public workshop in Washington, DC, to examine current and emerging bioethical issues that might arise in the context of biomedical research and to consider research topics in bioethics that could benefit from further attention. The scope of bioethical issues in research is broad, but this workshop focused on issues related to the development and use of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in research and clinical practice; issues emerging as nontraditional approaches to health research become more widespread; the role of bioethics in addressing racial and structural inequalities in health; and enhancing the capacity and diversity of the bioethics workforce. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : Arthur W. Galston,Emily G. Shurr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461515913

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New Dimensions in Bioethics by Arthur W. Galston,Emily G. Shurr Pdf

In the last three decades, bioethics has matured into a field of study with several areas of concentration, including medical ethics, environmental ethics and more recently, genetic ethics. For reasons related to both the developmental history of the subject and to the poignancy of the problems presented, most textbooks and collections of essays have dealt with only a single area, medical ethics. In fact, to many not in the field, the word bioethics has become synonymous with medical ethics. The aim of this collection of essays, entitled New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science, Ethics and the Formation of Public Policy, is to enlarge this restrictive vision of the field as it is usually studied at universities. By combining essays relevant to medical ethics with companion essays on environmental ethics and genetic ethics, the book emphasizes similarities in the methods of analysis used in diverse bioethical problems, whether dealing with genes, with people or the environment. In this way, New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science, Ethics and the Formation of Public Policy, hopes to contribute to the intellectual unity of the subject and to suggest changes in the way bioethics can be taught and studied at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

Author : Adil E. Shamoo,David B. Resnik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199376032

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Responsible Conduct of Research by Adil E. Shamoo,David B. Resnik Pdf

Since the early 2000s, the field of Responsible Conduct of Research has become widely recognized as essential to scientific education, investigation, and training. At present, research institutions with public funding are expected to have some minimal training and education in RCR for their graduate students, fellows and trainees. These institutions also are expected to have a system in place for investigating and reporting misconduct in research or violations of regulations in research with human subjects, or in their applications to federal agencies for funding. Public scrutiny of the conduct of scientific researchers remains high. Media reports of misconduct scandals, biased research, violations of human research ethics rules, and moral controversies in research occur on a weekly basis. Since the 2009 publication of the 2nd edition of Shamoo and Resnik's Responsible Conduct of Research, there has been a vast expansion in the information, knowledge, methods, and diagnosis of problems related to RCR and the multitude of ethical issues of human subject protections. With the climate surrounding research conduct always shifting, developments in the field make an updated edition a necessity. All chapters have been revised and reflect the most current RCR landscape. New or further-developed topics include social responsibility and misconduct in social sciences, climate-change research, authorship, and peer review. Updates include new information on research involving human subjects or "vulnerable" biological subjects, as well as genetic research. Just like in previous editions, all chapters contain recent case studies and legal examples of various subjects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460910715

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Ethics in the Science and Technology Classroom by Anonim Pdf

This edited book on ethics represents the outcomes of an international collaborative project that examined the role and place of bioethics in science and technology curricula.

Author : Walter Glannon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195307788

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Bioethics and the Brain by Walter Glannon Pdf

Using a philosophical framework that is informed by neuroscience as well as contemporary legal cases such as Terri Schiavo, this text offers readers an introduction to this topic. It looks at the ethical implications of our knowledge of the brain and medical treatments for neurological diseases.

Author : G. Weisz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400919303

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Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics by G. Weisz Pdf

Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical schools seem increasingly to be filling rare positions in the humanities and social sciences with ethicists. Hardly a day passes without some media scrutiny of one or another ethical dilemma resulting from our new-found ability to transform the natural conditions of life. Although bioethics is a self-consciously interdisciplinary field, it has not attracted the collaboration of many social scientists. In fact, social scientists who specialize in the study of medicine have in many cases watched its development with a certain ambivalence. No one disputes the significance and often the painfulness of the issues and choices being addressed. But there is something about the way these issues are usually handled which seems somehow inappropri ate if not wrong-headed to one trained in a discipline like sociology or history. In their analyses of complex situations, ethicists often appear grandly oblivious to the social and cultural context in which these occur, and indeed to empirical referents of any sort. Nor do they seem very conscious of the cultural specificity of many of the values and procedures they utilize when making ethical judg ments. The unease felt by many in the social sciences was given articulate expression in a paper by Renee Fox and Judith Swazey which appeared in 1984.

Author : Richard Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317163688

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Communicating Biological Sciences by Richard Elliott Pdf

Recent scandals in the biosciences have highlighted the perils of communicating science leading many observers to ask questions about the pressures on scientists and the media to hype-up claims of scientific breakthroughs. Journalists, science writers and scientists themselves have to report complex and rapidly-developing scientific issues to society, yet work within conceptual and temporal constraints that shape their communication. To date, there has been little reflection on the ethical implications of science writing and science communication in an era of rapid change. Communicating Biological Sciences discusses the 'ethics' of science communication in light of recent developments in biotechnology and biomedicine. It focuses on the role of metaphors in the creation of visions and the framing of scientific advances, as well as their impact on patterns of public acceptance and rejection, trust and scepticism. Its rigorous investigation will appeal not only to science writers and scientists, but also to scholars of sociology, science and technology studies, media and journalism.

Author : Van Rensselaer Potter
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014009868

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Bioethics: Bridge to the Future by Van Rensselaer Potter Pdf