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Bioethics

A Return to Fundamentals

By: Bernard Gert,Charles M. Culver,K. Danner Clouser

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Bioethics

A Return to Fundamentals

By: Bernard Gert,Charles M. Culver,K. Danner Clouser

An updated and expanded successor to Culver and Gert's Philosophy in Medicine, this book integrates moral philosophy with clinical medicine to present a comprehensive summary of the theory, concepts, and lines of reasoning underlying the field of bioethics. Rather than concentrating narrowly on bioethics and investigating moral philosophy only marginally, the authors provide an explicit account of common morality and show how it applies to and is modified by the realities of clinical medicine. Such broader knowledge finds its specific practical application when one attempts to resolve the more complex and difficult cases. This book does not attempt to settle all controversial matters, but rather provides an ethical framework that various parties to the dispute can accept and use as a basis for reaching agreement. Thus, the authors' main goal is to facilitate ethical discussion. Their detailed analyses of death and disease maintain the theoretical objectivity of these concepts while recognizing their central role in social and medical practices. They also provide in-depth discussions of the central concepts and issues in bioethics: competence, consent, justification for moral rule violations, and confidentiality. Paternalism, one of the most pervasive problems in clinical medicine, is accorded special attention. All these concepts have been integrated and systematically grounded within common morality. The book is richly illustrated with discussions of clinical cases. The authors explicitly compare their position with other accounts of bioethics such as principlism, casuistry, and virtue theory. Their discussion of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide clarifies and evaluates the recent legal decisions on these topics. The arguments throughout the volume stand out with characteristic clarity and cogency. A fresh and all-encompassing approach to bioethics that does not shy away from controversy, Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals will interest not only students in philosophy of medicine and medical ethics courses, but also moral philosophers and bioethicists, as well as doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals.

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Oxford University Press

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0190289325

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9780190289324

Developmental Biology and Cancer

By: Gisele M. Hodges,Charles Rowlatt

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Developmental Biology and Cancer

By: Gisele M. Hodges,Charles Rowlatt

This book addresses possible analogies between cancer and developmental biology. An international group of experts provides a multidisciplinary approach, allowing biological or clinical scientists involved with cancer research to integrate specific information from diverse areas. Five concepts of cancer are presented, and developmental biology is reviewed at five levels. These are integrated in discussions of failure in organisation as a basis of cancer and its control. The book will be a valuable reference for both newcomers as well as experienced biological and clinical scientists. Features

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CRC Press

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0849388694

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9780849388699

Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

By: Richard Frankham,Jonathan D. Ballou,Katherine Ralls,Mark Eldridge,Michele R. Dudash,Charles B. Fenster,Robert C. Lacy,Paul Sunnucks

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Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

By: Richard Frankham,Jonathan D. Ballou,Katherine Ralls,Mark Eldridge,Michele R. Dudash,Charles B. Fenster,Robert C. Lacy,Paul Sunnucks

One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of fragmented populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small, isolated, population fragments of threatened species are likely suffering inbreeding depression and loss of evolutionary potential, resulting in elevated extinction risks. Although these effects can often be reversed by re-establishing gene flow between population fragments, managers very rarely do this. On the contrary, genetic methods are used mainly to document genetic differentiation among populations, with most studies concluding that genetically differentiated populations should be managed separately, thereby isolating them yet further and dooming many to eventual extinction! Many small population fragments are going extinct principally for genetic reasons. Although the rapidly advancing field of molecular genetics is continually providing new tools to measure the extent of population fragmentation and its genetic consequences, adequate guidance on how to use these data for effective conservation is still lacking. This accessible, authoritative text is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in conservation biology, conservation genetics, and wildlife management. It will also be of particular relevance to conservation practitioners and natural resource managers, as well as a broader academic audience of conservation biologists and evolutionary ecologists.

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426

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Oxford University Press

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0191086061

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9780191086069

Cellular and Molecular Targets for Chemoprevention

By: Vernon E. Steele,Gary D. Stoner,Gary J. Kelloff,Charles W. Boone

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Cellular and Molecular Targets for Chemoprevention

By: Vernon E. Steele,Gary D. Stoner,Gary J. Kelloff,Charles W. Boone

Cellular and Molecular Targets for Chemoprevention provides comprehensive coverage of target mechanisms that have proved valuable in chemoprevention research, in addition to mechanisms that may prove valuable in the near future. The book discusses such topics as growth factor receptor modulation, cell-to-cell communication, differentiation modulation, antisense olgonucleotides, tumor suppressor genes, free radical scavengers, and polyamine synthesis inhibition. Cellular and Molecular Targets for Chemoprevention will be welcomed by scientists in all areas of cancer/chemoprevention research, pharmaceutical researchers, and advanced students.

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0849345308

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9780849345302

The Argonauts of California

By: Charles Warren Haskins

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The Argonauts of California

By: Charles Warren Haskins

The Argonauts of California being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days.

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505

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Рипол Классик

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5518729227

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9785518729223

Works of Charles W. Diffin

By: Charles W. Diffin

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Works of Charles W. Diffin

By: Charles W. Diffin

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Charles W. Diffin: Brood of the Dark Moon The Finding of Haldgren The Hammer of Thor Two Thousand Miles Below

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1456613626

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Two Thousand Miles

By: Charles W. Diffin

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Two Thousand Miles

By: Charles W. Diffin

Rawson learns to his cost that the life-spark of a fabled race glows in the black heart of a dead, Western volcano.

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1612101399

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Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism

Second Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Charles C. Hinkley II

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Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism

Second Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Charles C. Hinkley II

In this revised edition of Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism, Charles Hinkley elaborates on his moral philosophy of constructive pluralism and updates the literature on organ retrieval strategies. Hinkley challenges a deeply entrenched moral triad: 1) moral values are comparable; 2) the weighing metaphor helps us conceptualize decisions regarding conflicting values; and 3) there is a single best discoverable response to a moral decision. This book offers an alternative—cases of incomparability, a constructing or making metaphor, and multiple permissible responses to some moral questions. Constructive pluralism has important implications for organ transplantation, health, and ethics.

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9004409572

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9789004409576

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The Argonauts of California

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Works of Charles W. Diffin

Two Thousand Miles

Two Thousand Miles

Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism

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