Rail transit [[electronic resource] ] : observations on FTA's State Safety Oversight Program and potential change in oversight role : testimony before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives / / statement of Katherine Siggerud

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910696954103321
• Autore: Siggerud Katherine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2009]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (13 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Testimony ; ; GAO-10-293T
• Soggetti: Local transit - United States - States - Safety measures; Railroads - United States - Safety measures; Federal aid to transportation - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from PDF title screen (GAO, viewed Mar. 3, 2010).; "For release ... December 8. 2009."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics / / edited by Henk ten Have

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910255343003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
• ISBN: 3-319-09483-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (22 illus., 11 illus. in color. eReference.)
• Collana: Springer Reference
• Disciplina: 174.203
• Soggetti: Ethics; Bioethics; Social sciences; Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics; Society
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Section 1: Introduction: Global bioethics -- Section 2: Abortion -- Abuse -- Access to health care -- Addiction -- Adoption -- Advance directives -- Advance care planning -- Advertising -- Advocacy -- Ageism -- Agricultural ethics -- aids -- Alcohol(ism) -- Alternative medicine -- Altruism -- Animals -- Anthropocentrism -- Anthropology and ethics -- Applied ethics -- Artificial insemination -- Artificial organs -- Artificial nutrition and hydration -- Assisted suicide -- Authenticity -- Autonomy -- Behavior modification -- Benefit-sharing -- Benefit and harm -- Biobanking -- Biocentrism -- Biodiversity -- Bioethics -- Biology -- Biometrics -- Biopiracy -- Biopolitics -- Biosafety -- Biosecurity -- Biotechnology -- Bioterrorism. -- Birth control -- Body -- Brain death -- Brain drain -- Care ethics -- Capacity building -- Capital punishment -- Casuistry -- Censorship -- Children -- Chronic illness and care -- Circumcision -- Citizenship -- Civil disobedience. -- Climate change and health -- Clinical ethics -- Clinical research -- Cloning -- Codes of conduct -- Coercion. -- Commercialism -- Committees -- Commodification -- Common good -- Common heritage of humankind -- Communication -- Communitarian ethics -- Compassion -- Competence -- Complicity -- ; Confidentiality -- Conflict of interest -- Conscience -- Consent -- Corruption -- Cosmopolitanism -- Cultural diversity -- Death -- Death penalty -- Deliberation -- Dementia -- Dental ethics -- Designer babies -- Development -- Disability -- Disasters -- Disease -- Discourse ethics -- Discrimination -- Distributive justice -- DNR (Do not resuscitate policies) -- Donation -- Double effect -- Dual use -- Doping -- Drugs -- Education -- Egalitarianism -- Electronic surveillance -- Electronic patient record -- Embryo -- Engineering ethics -- Enhancement -- Environmental ethics -- Epidemics -- Epidemiology -- Equality and equity -- Eugenics -- Euthanasia -- Evaluation ethics -- Evolutionary perspectives in ethics -- Exploitation -- Family medicine -- Fairness -- Feminist ethics -- Fertility control -- Fetal research -- Fetal surgery -- Fetus -- Food ethics -- Food security -- Forensic medicine -- Freedom -- Futility -- Future generation -- Gender -- Genetic counselling -- Genetic modification (GMOs) -- Genetic screening -- Gene therapy -- Genomics -- Ghost writing -- Governance -- Global health -- Health -- Health education and promotion -- Health insurance -- Health policy -- Homelessness -- Homosexuality -- Honor codes -- Hospice -- Hospital -- Human dignity -- Human rights -- Human nature -- Humanism -- Humanitarian intervention -- Hunger -- Identity -- Immigration -- Implementation ethics -- Indigenous knowledge -- Indigenous rights -- Infertility -- Information technology -- Insanity -- Integrity -- Intensive care -- International law -- Internet -- Journalism ethics -- Justice -- Law -- Leadership, ethics of -- Legal ethics -- Life -- Lifestyles -- Literature -- Malpractice -- Managed care -- Maternal-fetal relationship -- Media ethics -- Mediation -- Medical humanities -- Medical tourism -- Medicine -- Mental health -- Mental illness -- Mercy -- Migratio -- Military ethics -- Mismanagement -- Mistakes, medical -- Moral pluralism -- Moral relativism -- Moral status -- Narrative ethics -- Natural law -- Nature versus nurture -- Nanotechnology -- Neonatology -- Neuroethics -- Neurotechnology -- Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- Non-discrimination -- Nursing ethics -- Obesity.-Occupational therapy. -- Occupational safety -- Organ -- Organizational ethics -- Ownership -- Pain -- Palliative care -- Palliative sedation -- Pandemics -- Pastoral care -- Patenting -- Paternalism -- Pediatrics -- Pharmacy ethics -- Placebo -- Plagiarism -- Population ethics -- Poverty -- Precautionary principle -- Prevention -- Principlism -- Prisoners -- Privacy -- Professional ethics -- Professional-patient relationship -- Property rights -- Psychiatry ethics -- Psychosurgery -- Public debate -- Public health -- Publication ethics -- Quality of care -- Quality of life -- Refugees -- Religion and ethics -- Reproductive ethics -- Research ethics -- Research policy -- Resource allocation -- Regenerative medicine -- Respect for autonomy -- Responsibility -- Right to die -- Right to health -- Risk.-Robots -- Safety -- Science and engineering ethics -- Scientific misconduct -- Sexual ethics -- Slippery slope -- Social ethics -- Social work -- Solidarity -- Spirituality -- Sports -- Standards of care -- Stem cells -- stem cells, embryonic -- Stewardship -- Stigmatization -- Strikes -- Substance abuse -- Suffering -- Suicide -- Surrogate decision-making -- Surgery -- Sustainability -- Synthetic biology -- Technology assessment -- Testing -- Tissue engineering -- Torture -- Traditional medicine -- Transhumanism -- Transplantation medicine -- Triage -- Trust -- Truth-telling -- Utopianism -- Vaccination -- Values -- Vegetarianism -- Veterinary ethics -- Violence -- Virtue ethics -- Vulnerability -- Warfare -- Whistle-blowing -- Workplace ethics -- World ethics.-Xenotransplantation -- Section 3: Alphabetic index. .
• Sommario/riassunto: Chapter “Spirituality” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.