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Free Download Trudie Gerrits, "Patient-Centred IVF: Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic "
English | ISBN: 1785332260 | 2016 | 372 pages | PDF | 1139 KB
Contemporary Dutch policy and legislation facilitate the use of high quality, accessible and affordable assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to all citizens in need of them, while at the same time setting some strict boundaries on their use in daily clinical practices. Through the ethnographic study of a single clinic in this national context, Patient-Centred IVF examines how this particular form of medicine, aiming to empower its patients, co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of those using these technologies. Gerrits contends that to understand the use of reproductive technologies in practice and the complexity of processes of medicalization, we need to go beyond ‘easy assumptions’ about the hegemony of biomedicine and the expected impact of patient-centredness.

Free Download Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-Making by Charles Binkley
English | June 11, 2024 | ISBN: 0520397533 | 247 pages | PDF | 2.85 Mb
Encoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence systems to support clinical decisions. Utilizing an applied ethical model of patient-centered care, this book considers the viewpoints of programmers, health system and health insurance leaders, clinicians, and patients when AI is used in clinical decision-making. The authors build on their respective experiences as a surgeon-bioethicist and a surgeon-AI developer to give the reader an accessible account of the relevant ethical considerations raised when AI systems are introduced into the physician-patient relationship.

Free Download Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet by Kristien Hens, Christina Stadlbauer, Bart H M Vandeput
English | November 21, 2022 | ISBN: 1800648502 | 268 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that the role of the philosopher in scientific research is ethically necessary, and that it can also improve the quality and coherence of the research itself, ensuring that concepts employed, be it genes or autism or development, are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. She argues that chance and uncertainty play a central role in bioethics, and we must therefore focus as much on what we know as on what we create: in describing organisms and practices we make the world. As such, this is necessarily an ethical activity.

Free Download Glenn McGee, "Pragmatic Bioethics Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0262134306 | 2003 | 309 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies the American philosophical theory of pragmatism to such bioethics. Critics of pragmatism argue that it lacks a universal moral foundation. Yet it is this very lack of a metaphysical dividing line between facts and values that makes pragmatism such a rigorous and appropriate method for solving problems in bioethics. For pragmatism, ethics is a way of satisfying the complex demands of multiple individuals and groups in a contingent and changing world. Pragmatism also demands careful attention to the ways in which scientific advances change our values and ethics. The essays in this book present different approaches to pragmatism and different ways of applying pragmatism to scientific and medical matters. They use pragmatism to guide thinking about such timely topics as stem cell research, human cloning, genetic testing, human enhancement, and care for the poor and aging. This new edition contains three new chapters, on difficulties with applying pragmatism to law and bioethics, on helping people to die, and on embryonic stem cell research.

Free Download Bioethics for beginners: 60 Cases and Cautions from the Moral Frontier of Healthcare By Glenn McGee(auth.)
2012 | 181 Pages | ISBN: 0470659114 | PDF | 1 MB
How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmasBioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving the reader an informed basis on which to answer personal, practical questions. Unlocking the debate behind the headlines, this book combines clear thinking with the very latest in science and medicine, enabling readers to decide for themselves exactly what the scientific future should hold. Content: Chapter One Tip?Toe when Walking on the Bleeding Edge (pages 1-16): Chapter Two Everybody Lies (pages 17-33): Chapter Three The Genome Isn’t What It Used to Be (pages 34-39): Chapter Four Reproduce at Your Own Peril (pages 40-56): Chapter Five Don’t Sweat the Nano?Sized Stuff (pages 57-68): Chapter Six The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It Doesn’t (pages 69-85): Chapter Seven "Do No Harm" Has Become "Care for Yourself" (pages 86-97): Chapter Eight You Aren’t Dead Until Someone Tells You So (pages 98-109): Chapter Nine Eat Only Food for Thought (pages 110-116): Chapter Ten Beware of Ideologues and Demagogues (pages 117-145):

Free Download Biosafety and Bioethics
Published 9/2024
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Language: English | Duration: 2h 29m | Size: 1.44 GB
Learn the Basics of laboratory safety and ethics

Free Download Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-Making by Charles Binkley, Tyler Loftus
English | June 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 0520397533 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 2.52 MB
Encoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence systems to support clinical decisions. Utilizing an applied ethical model of patient-centered care, this book considers the viewpoints of programmers, health system and health insurance leaders, clinicians, and patients when AI is used in clinical decision-making. The authors build on their respective experiences as a surgeon-bioethicist and a surgeon-AI developer to give the reader an accessible account of the relevant ethical considerations raised when AI systems are introduced into the physician-patient relationship.

Free Download Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet by Kristien Hens
English | December 9th, 2022 | ISBN: 1800648502 | 268 pages | True EPUB | 12.24 MB
In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that the role of the philosopher in scientific research is ethically necessary, and that it can also improve the quality and coherence of the research itself, ensuring that concepts employed, be it genes or autism or development, are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. She argues that chance and uncertainty play a central role in bioethics, and we must therefore focus as much on what we know as on what we create: in describing organisms and practices we make the world. As such, this is necessarily an ethical activity.

Free Download The Morals of Life: Biology, Biopolitics, Bioethics (Insubordinations: Italian Radical Thought) by Davide Tarizzo
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0262549034 | 288 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
A theory of biopolitical power that updates Foucault, illustrating the moral implications of modern evolutionary theory.

Free Download Léo Pessini, Christian Paul de Barchifontaine, Fernando Lolas Stepke, "Ibero-American Bioethics: History and Perspectives"
English | 2010 | pages: 396 | ISBN: 1402093497, 9400731442 | PDF | 4,1 mb
This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts. As the first of these volumes, Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, and Fernando Lolas Stepke’s work has succeeded well. It has brought together accounts by sch- ars who were crucial to the emergence of bioethics in the Ibero-American cultural domain. This trail-blazing work in the history of bioethics will be of enduring s- nificance. I am deeply in their debt for having shouldered this far from easy task. Bioethics is the product of very particular socio-historical developments. Most prominent among them have been (1) the secularization of the dominant culture of North America, Western Europe, and now Central and South America as well, (2) a deflation of the status and authority of physicians as moral authorities able to guide their own profession, and (3) the salience of a post-traditional animus that gives c- tral place to persons as isolated atomic sources of moral authority. Bioethics initially took shape in North America as a post-Christian, post-professional, post-traditional social movement. This bioethics sought to establish a moral discourse for the public forum, a moral practice able to give practical guidance in hospitals and other insti- tions, and a body of undergirding and justifying theoretical reflections.