Towards Sustainable Good Health and Well-being = The Role of Health Literacy

The purpose of this open access book is threefold. The first is to shed light on patient participation and health literacy for Good Health and Well-being, which is one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Health literacy is considered a prerequisite for patients to be able to participate in shared decisions on their own treatment (WHO,1998). Health literacy has received increased internat…

Towards an Ethical Approach to Animals = A Life Learning about Animal Welfare

In two parts, this open access work offers a broad and often unconventional approach to animal ethics, written by a pioneer in animal welfare science and ethics. The author Clive Phillips, Australia's first professor of animal welfare, first describes his life experience and career in the field, which enabled him to provide thoughts and possible solutions to some of the key problems in human-an…

The Risks and Ethics of Human Gene Editing = A Philosophical Guide to the Arg…

This Open Access book is about the risks and the ethics of human germline gene editing, i.e., the possibility to make heritable changes to the DNA of early human embryos or germ cells. Is there something particularly morally problematic about editing the human germline? Is there something unique about germline editing, and, if so, does this suggest that we ought not to edit the human germline, …

Kantianism for Animals

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-031-01930-2

Collation

oer.unej.ac.id

Series Title

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

Call Number

-

The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contempo…

This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…

Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine

This book examines the history of medicine as a sub-discipline within the medical humanities and its possible contributions to dealing with medical uncertainty. It investigates how the history of medicine reduced intolerance for ambiguity among medical students in the past, and can continue to do so today. Using several case studies, the second part of this volume illustrates the long-term and …

Global Challenges in Cardiovascular Prevention in Populations with Low Socioe…

Cardiovascular Prevention (CVP) has included important technological advances and determined improvements in morbidity and mortality since the last 70 and 60 years. However, in populations with socioeconomic limited resources even basic health preserving tools such as access to a primary care provider and basic drug therapy for diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are n…

Dilated Cardiomyopathy = From Genetics to Clinical Management

This open access book presents a comprehensive overview of dilated cardiomyopathy, providing readers with practical guidelines for its clinical management. The first part of the book analyzes in detail the disease’s pathophysiology, its diagnostic work up as well as the prognostic stratification, and illustrates the role of genetics and gene-environment interaction. The second part presents c…

Pflege-Report 2020 = Neuausrichtung von Versorgung und Finanzierung

Neuausrichtung von Versorgung und Finanzierung Der Pflege-Report, der in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, nimmt jährlich relevante Themen der Versorgung von Pflegebedürftigen unter die Lupe. Als Schwerpunkt des Jahres 2020 werden zentrale Reformbereiche der heutigen Leistungs-, Steuerungs- und Finanzierungsstrukturen aufgegriffen und diskutiert Aus dem Inhalt 15 Fachbeit…

Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? = How Scientific…

This open access book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in medical research and practice with a focus on the ethical and methodological prob-lems of EBM. The claims that EBM can herald a new theory of epistemology and a Kuhnian paradigm will be refuted. T…