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Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction
This book exposes, and fills, a notable void in the educational content generally covered in modern schools of medicine. It provides an introduction to the field at large in terms of content that is relevant for each of the specialties and subspecialties of medicine; and to this end, it addresses the modern counterpart of the Hippocratic philosophy that was at the root of the genesis of modern …
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- 978-3-319-19011-2
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- XVI, 136
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- Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction
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Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: ‘liberal’ eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry itself. All of the…
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- 978-94-017-9869-3
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- VIII, 323
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- Philosophy and Medicine
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Family-Oriented Informed Consent East Asian and American Perspectives
This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research. The goal is critically to explore the current individually oriented approach to informed consent which grew out of the dominant bioethics movement that arose in the United States in the 1970s. In contrast to that individually oriented approach, this volume explores the importance o…
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- 978-3-319-12120-8
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- XII, 288
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Vladimir Solov’ëv's Justification of the Moral Good Moral Philosophy
This new English translation of Solov’ëv’s principal ethical treatise, written in his later years, presents Solov’ëv’s mature views on a host of topics ranging from a critique of individualistic ethical systems to the death penalty, the meaning of war, animal rights, and environmentalism. Written for the educated public rather than for a narrow circle of specialists, Solov’ëv’s w…
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- 978-3-319-12775-0
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- LXX, 435
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Value Economics The Ethical Implications of Value for New Economic Thinking
The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics. In Value Economics, Griffiths and Lucas examine some of the reasons for this ethical gap and discuss the resulting loss of confidence in the financial system. One of the reasons has been hazy or inadequate thinking about how we value economic enterprises. With the close link between the creation of value and business…
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- 978-1-137-54187-1
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- XV, 281
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Economic ethics in late Medieval England, 1300-1500
Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted. Moving beyond the impersonal operations of an economy to its ethical dimension, Hole socio-cultural study considers not only the ideas and beliefs of theologians an…
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- 9783319388601
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- 174.4
Contemporary Bioethics : Islamic Perspective
The present study undertakes to examine biomedical issues as they have emerged in the last three decades. In the Muslim world, as in any part of the globe, advancements in biomedical technology has meant a number of new issues in the medical treatment and procedures that impinge upon Islamic values as taught by the Qur’an and the Sunna (the Tradition of Prophet Muhammad). Our investigations i…
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- 978-3-319-18428-9
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- XV, 267 halaman
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- 174.2 BAR c
Extreme Inequalities in Contemporary Capitalism Should We Be Concerned About…
This book explores the mechanisms by which top incomes are achieved through work in today’s advanced economies and asks to what extent current extreme inequalities are compatible with widely held values of social justice. Reflecting on the heterogeneity of the working rich, the authors argue that very high earnings often result not from heightened competition induced by globalization but rath…
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- 978-3-319-28811-6
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- 13 b/w illustrations
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Legal Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from the Unite…
This book offers readers a comprehensive and in-depth legal analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by examining the theoretical foundations of corporate governance and its legal mechanism in the United States and South Korea. Moreover, it proposes legislative blueprint for establishing the legal frameworks that might serve to legitimize and effectively implement CSR in general. Refle…
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- 978-81-322-2386-3
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The Roots Of Respect: A Historic-philosophical Itinerary
Despite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem from a historical-philosophical perspective is conspicuously absent. The present collection of essays aims to contribute to the fulfillment of this gap by offering a reconstruct…
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- 9783110448139
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