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Bioethics --- Bioethics. --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Science --- Biology - General --- Biomedical Ethics --- Health Care Ethics --- Ethics, Biomedical --- Ethics, Health Care --- Ethics, Medical --- Ethicists

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The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an ongoing phenomenological sense of bodies themselves; with the impact of postmodernist theory as it problematizes the certainties of binary thinking; and with a postmodern culture in which bioscientific developments force us to question what is meant by the notion of the human self. The authors demonstrate that the conventional normative framework of bioethics is called into question by issues as wide ranging as genetic manipulation, disability, high-tech prosthetics, and intersexuality. The essays show how both the theory and practice of bioethics can benefit from postmodernism's characteristic fluidity and multiplicity, as well as from the insights of a reconceived feminist bioethics. They address issues in philosophy, law, bioscientific research, psychiatry, cultural studies, and feminism from a "postconventional" perspective that looks beyond the familiar ideas of the body, proposing not a bioethics about the body but a radical ethics of the body. After exploring notions of difference in both feminist and postmodernist terms, the book considers specific issues -- including HIV, addiction, borderline personality disorder, and cancer -- that challenge the principles of conventional bioethics. The focus then turns to questions raised by biotechnology: one essay rethinks the traditional feminist ethics of care in the context of new reproductive technology, while others tackle genetic and genomic issues. Finally, the book looks at embodiment and some specifically anomalous forms of being-in-the-body, including a consideration of intersex infants and children that draws on feminist, postructuralist, and queer theory.

Bioethics. --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Science --- PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology --- Philosophy of science --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Bioethics --- aids (HIV) --- bio-ethiek (medische, biomedische ethiek, bio-ethische aspecten) --- biotechnologie --- feministische ethiek --- geesteszieken --- kanker --- verslaving --- sida (VIH) --- bioéthique (éthique médicale, biomédicale, aspects bioéthiques) --- éthique féministe --- malades mentaux --- cancer --- dépendance --- Droit médical

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La stabilità della funzione è stato il concetto di riferimento da C. Bernard ad oggi, sia per la biologia che per la medicina clinica. Solo di recente, pero', due fisici illustri, Gregoire Nicolis ed Ilya Prigogine, Premio Nobel per la Fisica nel 1978, hanno offerto una descrizione completa della stabilità della variabile, e pertanto di uno stato funzionale, in termini cosi' chiari, precisi ed esaurienti, da poter essere applicata anche in ambito biologico. I concetti, prima confusi, su cui basavamo il nostro pensare, ora si dispongono secondo un senso accettabile, e dal significato appena acquisito già richiamano l'attenzione sul possibile ordine emergente. Il presente volume offre un approccio multidisciplinare ad un argomento biologico: dalla teoria dei sistemi e dalla termodinamica del lontano dall'equilibrio fino agli stati funzionali del sonno, della veglia e dell'esercizio muscolare. Semplicità di descrizione, precisione delle definizioni ed abbondanza di illustrazioni, renderanno facile al lettore lo studio della stabilità dei sistemi complessi e la comprensione di come il sistema nervoso autonomo controlli questa stabilità.

Homeostasis. --- Autonomic nervous system --- Physiology. --- Involuntary nervous system --- Nervous system, Autonomic --- Nervous system, Vegetative --- Systema nervosum autonomicum --- Vegetative nervous system --- Nervous system --- Biological control systems --- Body fluids --- Physiology --- Neurology. --- Medical ethics. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Neuropsychiatry --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Diseases --- Neurology .

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This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasising the conservation of biodiversity. Sahota Sarkar criticises attempts to attribute intrinsic value to nature and defends an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation based on an untraditional concept of transformative value. Unlike other studies in the field of environmental philosophy, this book is as much concerned with epistemological issues as with environmental ethics. It covers a broad range of topics, including problems of explanation and prediction in traditional ecology and how individual-based models and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology is transforming ecology. Introducing a brief history of conservation biology, Sarkar analyses the consensus framework for conservation planning through adaptive management. He concludes with a discussion of directions for theoretical research in conservation biology and environmental philosophy.

Environmental sciences --- Bioethics. --- Biodiversity. --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Bioethics --- Biodiversity --- Philosophy --- Arts and Humanities --- Environmental sciences - Philosophy --- Acqui 2006

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1 Historical Introduction INTRODUCTION This chapter is mainly about the history of medicine and its ethics. As usually c- ceived, history is retrograde: It is what happened yesterday, and, much as we may try, it is what happened yesterday seen with a set of today’s eyes. Trying to understand yesterday’s culture may help us put on a pair of corrective glasses, but it fails in - tirely correcting our vision. Contemporary cultural anthropology may likewise help us understand the way today’s events and cultural habits shape what we call history tomorrow. Past events and the kaleidoscopic pattern of today’s cultures may help guide us into a future that in at least some respects is ours to forge. Learning about ethics yesterday and thinking about ethics as it expresses itself in various cultures today can help us shape the ethics of tomorrow: This is true whether we are speaking of that part of social ethics called “medical” or of any other part of social ethics. The social aspects of medical practice—how the institution called medicine fits into and works within the greater society called culture—shape the way its ethics ultimately must play itself out.

Medical ethics. --- Bioethics. --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Science --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Family medicine. --- Ethics. --- Pediatrics. --- Internal medicine. --- General Practice / Family Medicine. --- Internal Medicine. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Medicine, Internal --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Children --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Family practice (Medicine) --- General practice (Medicine) --- Physicians (General practice) --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- General practice (Medicine).