Published December, 2010
By Matthew J. Commers
Publisher: Springer
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health. In this innovative work, the author contrasts public and professional understandings of health and the best ways to achieve health.

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Published December, 2010
By L.Y Nordenfelt
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This book is a contribution to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. At the same time he explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts.

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Published December, 2010
By Frederick Svenaeus, F. Svenaeus and Sven Svenaeus
Publisher: Springer
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Certain philosophical approaches, on the other hand - specifically, Heidegger's phenomenology and Gadamer's hermeneutics - are shown to have a hitherto unrealized potential for making sense of those themes long buried within Western medicine.

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Published December, 2010
By Marcel Verweij and M.F. Verweij
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Throughout the book it is argued that some moral concerns about prevention - namely concerns about medicalization - cannot be adequately grasped in terms of strict and binding moral norms.

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Published December, 2010
By Per-Anders Tengland, P.-A. Tengland and P.A. Tengland
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Mental health issues are a growing concern in our modern Western society. However, most of what has been written so far has had its focus on mental illness or disease, the negative side of the coin, and few attempts have been made to discuss more thoroughly, from a philosophical perspective, what it is to be mentally healthy.

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Published November, 2010
By Philip Bielby
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This book develops a novel justificatory framework for making judgments of decisional competence to consent to biomedical research. This is the first book to focus exclusively on this subject, which also has implications for the emerging field of neuroethics.

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Published November, 2010
By Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Marcus Düwell and Dietmar Mieth
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Context awareness, of course, is not foreign to philosophical or theological bioethics, for the simple reason that the issues tackled in the debates (as in other fields of ethics) could not be adequately understood outside their contexts.

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Published November, 2010
By Stefan N. Willich, Susanna Elm and S. Elm
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Today, health, health care (business, wellness, recreation), and medicine (especially research-driven scientific medicine) have become separate entities with different institutions, budgets, marketing philosophies and "corporate cultures".

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Published November, 2010
By Michela Betta
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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With genetic testing and screening, adults might be healthy, predisposed to an illness, probably at risk, at risk, or carriers of certain risks. Genetic testing and screening hits another dramatic note when cells and embryos are tested and subsequently altered to hit targets of perfection.

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Published November, 2010
By Sharon E. Sytsma
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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This collection of 21 articles is designed to serve as a state-of-the art reference book for intersexuals, their parents, health care professionals, ethics committee members, and anyone interested in problems associated with intersexuality.

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