Chapter 1: Introduction (written by the editors) -- Part I: Setting the stage -- Chapter 2: Different notions of surveillance in healthcare;Samantha Adams -- Chapter 3: The European legal framework for personal data in health; Nadezhda Purtova.- Part II: Personal health, privacy and autonomy: an uneasy relationship.- Chapter 4: Unravelling Unobtrusiveness in mHealth Design and Use and impli…
From the contents L'infertilità nella società moderna: Infertilità: una malattia sociale. La dimensione sociale del fenomeno. La dimensione tecnica del fenomeno. Riflessioni sulle tecniche. Aspetti psicologici dei pazienti e degli operatori -- Le basi culturali del progetto SAHARAI: Il fallimento nei numeri e le tentate soluzioni. Le soluzioni proposte da SAHARAI -- La forza della domanda di…
Historical Introduction -- Knowledge and Ethics -- Theoretical Considerations -- Fallibility and the Problem of Blameworthiness in Medicine -- The Ongoing Dialectic between Autonomy and Responsibility in a Pluralist World -- Patients, Society and Healthcare Professionals -- Genetics and Ethics -- Problems of Macro-allocation -- Organ Donation -- Problems at the Beginning of Life -- Problems in …
Introduzione -- Costanza e stabilità dell’ambiente interno: C. Bernard e W.B. Cannon -- Sistema e variabili -- Equilibrio, stabilità, stati di quiete e stati stazionari, bilancio -- Stabilità cibernetica -- Stabilità termodinamica -- Instabilità -- Stati di quiete e di attività del sistema biologico -- Stabilità e controllo neuroumorale -- Il sistema nervoso autonomo: La storia, il nuo…
Science and Society -- The Past, Present and Future of Human Nature -- Unethical Contexts for Ethical Questions -- Human Subject Protections -- Secret State Experiments and Medical Ethics -- Cross-Cultural Considerations in Medical Ethics -- Medical Ethics -- Reproductive Rights and Health in the Developing World -- Genetic Testing of Human Embryos -- Choosing Our Children -- The Heart Disease …
Defining the Rights to Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Glucksberg v. Compassion -- A Legal Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide -- A Moral Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide -- The Concept of Fetal Rights -- Maternal Duties and Fetal Rights -- The Scope of the Right to Procreational Autonomy -- Possessors of the Right to Procreational Autonomy -- Medical Futility and Moral Rights.Medical Law and …
Introduction: In Search of Ethics Expertise -- A Guided Historical Tour -- Socrates and Moral Expertise -- Aristotle’s Moral Expert: The phronimos -- Hume on True and False Philosophy -- Moral Expertise: A Millian Perspective -- The Ineffable and the Incalculable: G.E. Moore on Ethical Expertise -- Pragmatism and Ethical Expertise -- Contemporary Perspectives -- Expert Moral Choice in Medicin…
When Does a Human Being Become a Person? -- All Human Beings are Persons -- How is the Dignity of the Person as Agent Recognized? -- An Ethical Assessment of Bush’s Guidelines for Stem Cell Research -- Moral Absolutism and Ectopic Pregnancy -- Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate? -- Solomon’s Dilemma -- Capital Punishment and the Catholic Tradition.The Edge of Life: Human Dignity…
Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models -- Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age -- The “Telos” of Medicine and the Good of the Patient -- The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society -- A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- Toward Clini…
Lawmaking and Interpretation in The Age of Biotechnology -- Religion: Medico-Legal Norms or Constructs -- Procreational Autonomy or Theological Restraints -- Freedom of Scientific Investigation -- Genetic Enhancement -- A Compassionate Death.Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans. It animates, challenges, directs and shapes, as well, the legal, political, and scientific age…