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From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing the generative relationship and mutual influence between these fields across premodern Asia. The anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern Buddhist texts with contextualizing introductions by leading international scholars in Buddhist studies, the history of medicine, and a range of other fields.These sources explore in detail medical topics ranging from the development of fetal anatomy in the womb to nursing, hospice, dietary regimen, magical powers, visualization, and other healing knowledge. Works translated here include meditation guides, popular narratives, ritual manuals, spells texts, monastic disciplinary codes, recipe inscriptions, philosophical treatises, poetry, works by physicians, and other genres. All together, these selections and their introductions provide a comprehensive overview of Buddhist healing throughout Asia. They also demonstrate the central place of healing in Buddhist practice and in the daily life of the premodern world.

Healing --- Suffering --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Attitude to Health. --- Ayurveda. --- Buddhismus. --- Buddhologie. --- History, Ancient. --- History, Medieval. --- Medicine, Traditional --- Meditation. --- Medizin. --- Medizinische Ethik. --- Medizinstudium. --- Männerorden. --- Religion and Medicine. --- Talisman. --- Taoismus. --- Translations. --- Ärztliche Behandlung. --- History. --- Far East. --- India. --- medicine; buddhism

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Understanding the significance of genetic factors for our lives requires an analysis that goes beyond biological aspects. It is especially necessary to take into account how human beings relate to others and to themselves. Who we are is a result of social action and the ways in which human beings constitute themselves as subjects. Seen from this perspective, genetic medicine is a social practice that shapes how we think about us, how we conduct our behaviour and how we care for our children. This book scrutinises practices by which individuals become knowledgeable about their genes and constitute them as responsible decision makers. Besprochen in: Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst, 245 (2018)

Science --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Social aspects. --- Bioethical Issues. --- Genetic Privacy. --- Genetic Research. --- Genetic engineering. --- Genetics --- Genetics, Medical. --- Genomics --- Gentechnologie. --- Medical genetics. --- Medizinische Ethik. --- Medizinsoziologie. --- Mensch. --- Soziales Handeln. --- Subjekt --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Ethics. --- Genetic Medicine; Science and Technology Studies; Subjectivisation; Genomics; ELSA (Ethical; Legal; And Social Aspects of Genomics); Identity; Medicine; Body; Science; Sociology of Science; Sociology of Medicine; Sociology --- And Social Aspects of Genomics). --- Body. --- ELSA (Ethical. --- Genomics. --- Identity. --- Legal. --- Medicine. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Science. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Sociology of Science. --- Sociology. --- Subjectivisation.

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Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological sciences. Members of several professions, including philosophers, lawyers and social scientists, now discuss and help regulate issues that were once left to doctors and scientists, in a form of outside involvement known as ‘bioethics’. The making of British bioethics provides the first in-depth study of the growing demand for this outside involvement in Britain, where bioethicists have become renowned and influential ‘ethics experts’. The book moves beyond existing histories, which often claim that bioethics arose in response to questions surrounding new procedures such as in vitro fertilisation. It shows instead that British bioethics emerged thanks to a dynamic interplay between changing sociopolitical concerns and the aims of specific professional groups and individuals. Highlighting this interplay has important implications for our understanding of how issues such as embryo experiments, animal research and assisted dying became high profile ‘bioethical’ concerns in late twentieth century Britain. And it also helps us appreciate how various individuals and groups intervened in and helped create the demand for bioethics, playing a major role in their transformation into ‘ethics experts’. The making of British bioethics draws on a wide range of materials, including government archives, popular sources, professional journals, and original interviews with bioethicists and politicians. It is clearly written and will appeal to historians of medicine and science, general historians, bioethicists, and anyone interested in what the emergence of bioethics means for our notions of health, illness and morality.

Bioethics --- Ethics --- Humanities --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Health Care --- History --- Bioethical Issues --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biology - General --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Egoism --- Ethical Issues --- Metaethics --- Moral Policy --- Natural Law --- Situational Ethics --- Ethical Issue --- Ethics, Situational --- Issue, Ethical --- Issues, Ethical --- Law, Natural --- Laws, Natural --- Moral Policies --- Natural Laws --- Policies, Moral --- Policy, Moral --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Bioethical Issue --- Issue, Bioethical --- Issues, Bioethical --- Aspects, Historical --- Historical Aspects --- Aspect, Historical --- Historical Aspect --- Histories --- Biomedical Ethics --- Health Care Ethics --- Ethics, Biomedical --- Ethics, Health Care --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Censorship, Research --- Science --- Euthanasia --- Human Experimentation --- Patient Rights --- Animal Experimentation --- Ethics, Medical --- Ethicists --- History. --- Medizinische Ethik. --- Biomedizin. --- Bioethics. --- Bioethical Issues. --- history. --- Grossbritannien. --- Great Britain. --- Medizin --- Ärztliche Ethik --- Klinische Ethik --- Ärztliches Ethos --- Arzt --- Heilberuf --- Medizinethik --- Wissenschaftsethik --- Angewandte Ethik --- Bioethik --- Ethik --- Ethos --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Vereinigtes Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Großbritannien und Nordirland --- England --- UK --- Angleterre --- Brīṭāniyā al-ʿUẓmā --- Brīṭāniya 'l-ʿUẓmā --- Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Great Britain --- Grande Bretagne --- British Isles --- Gran Bretagna --- U.K. --- GB --- British Empire --- Britisches Reich --- Briten --- Schottland --- Commonwealth --- 1707 --- -Medizinische Ethik. --- Velikobritanii︠a︡ --- בריטניה --- イギリス --- Medicine. --- Medicine: general issues. --- History of medicine. --- MEDICAL / History. --- Briṭena --- British bioethics. --- British universities. --- Ian Kennedy. --- Ian Ramsey. --- Mary Warnock. --- assisted dying. --- bioethics committee. --- club regulation. --- embryo research. --- external oversight. --- in vitro fertilisation. --- transdisciplinary groups.

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This book is a critical examination of the philosophical and moral issues in relation to human enhancement and the various related medical developments that are now rapidly moving from the laboratory into the clinical realm. In the book, the author critically examines technologies such as genetic engineering, neural implants, pharmacologic enhancement, and cryonic suspension from transhumanist and bioconservative positions, focusing primarily on moral issues and what it means to be a human in a setting where technological interventions sometimes impact strongly on our humanity. The author also introduces the notion that death is a process rather than an event, as well as identifies philosophical and clinical limitations in the contemporary determination of brain death as a precursor to organ procurement for transplantation. The discussion on what exactly it means to be dead is later applied to explore philosophical and clinical issues germane to the cryonics movement. Written by a physician/ scientist and heavily referenced to the peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature, the book is aimed at advanced students and academics but should be readable by any intelligent reader willing to carry out some side-reading. No prior knowledge of moral philosophy is assumed, as the various key approaches to moral philosophy are outlined early in the book.

Cryonics. --- Medical ethics. --- Human beings. --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Cryogenic interment --- Freezing of human bodies --- Human cold storage --- Burial --- Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Immortalism --- Resuscitation --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Ethics. --- Computer science. --- Philosophy. --- Medicine-Philosophy. --- Moral Philosophy. --- Computers and Society. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Informatics --- Science --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Computers and civilization. --- Medicine—Philosophy. --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- bio-ethics --- medical research --- philosophy of science --- tudományfilozófia --- zinātnes filozofija --- filozofia nauki --- φιλοσοφία της επιστήμης --- filosofia della scienza --- mokslo filosofija --- filozofia științelor --- filozofia vedy --- videnskabsfilosofi --- teadusfilosoofia --- Philosophie der Wissenschaft --- filozofie vědy --- filozofi e shkencës --- philosophie des sciences --- wetenschapsfilosofie --- филозофија науке --- fealsúnacht na heolaíochta --- filosofía de la ciencia --- filosofia da ciência --- filozofija znanosti --- vetenskapsteori --- философия на науката --- tieteen filosofia --- filosofija tax-xjenza --- филозофија на науката --- histoire des sciences --- science philosophy --- историја на науката --- povijest znanosti --- filosofia cientifica --- historia de la ciencia --- zinātnes vēsture --- история на науката --- istoria științelor --- história vedy --- Wissenschaftsgeschichte --- vetenskapshistoria --- filosofia das ciências --- history of science --- tiedefilosofia --- storja tax-xjenza --- histori e shkencës --- história da ciência --- dejiny vedy --- storia della scienza --- tieteen historia --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- história das ciências --- ιστορία της επιστήμης --- dějiny vědy --- zgodovina znanosti --- historia nauki --- teadusajalugu --- videnskabshistorie --- vetenskapsfilosofi --- vedecká filozofia --- medicinsk forskning --- taighde leighis --- medicinsko istraživanje --- orvosi kutatás --- kërkim mjekësor --- medizinische Forschung --- recherche médicale --- badania w medycynie --- medicīnas pētniecība --- медицинско изследване --- lääketieteellinen tutkimus --- medicinos mokslo tiriamieji darbai --- arstiteaduslik uurimus --- lekársky výskum --- medicinske raziskave --- medische research --- investigación médica --- investigação médica --- ricerca medica --- riċerka medika --- истражување во медицината --- ιατρική έρευνα --- медицинско истраживање --- lékařský výzkum --- cercetare medicală --- biomedicinsko istraživanje --- лабораториски истражувања --- βιοηθική --- bijoetika --- bioética --- bioetica --- bioētika --- bioeetika --- биоетика --- bioetyka --- bioetiikka --- bio-ethiek --- bioéthique --- bioetică --- bioetik --- bitheitic --- Bioethik --- bioetika --- lääkärin etiikka --- κώδικας ιατρικής ηθικής --- etică medicală --- etica medica --- медицинска етика --- ética médica --- medical ethics --- bioëthiek --- arstieetika --- medizinische Ethik --- medicīniskā ētika --- orvosi etika --- éthique médicale --- medicinos etika --- etikë mjekësore --- medicinska etika --- medische ethiek --- meditsiinieetika --- medicinsk etik