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UNINA9910780899203321 |
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Titolo |
What Is Disease? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder |
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Totowa, NJ : , : Humana Press : , : Imprint : Humana, , 1997 |
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1-61737-015-0 |
1-280-83613-X |
9786610836130 |
1-59259-451-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 1997.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 361 p.) |
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Biomedical Ethics Reviews, , 0742-1796 |
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Medical ethics |
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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A Rebuttal on Health -- Defining Disease: The Question of Sexual Orientation -- Malady -- Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Disease -- Defining Disease: Praxis Makes Perfect -- Disease: Definition and Objectivity -- Disease and Subjectivity -- The Concept of Disease in Alternative Medicine. |
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In What is Disease?, renowned philosophers and medical ethicists survey and elucidate the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease, including discussions of the relevance of these concepts to the question of "diseased" sexual orientation and to alternative medicine. What is Disease? brings concerned readers up-to-date in the debate over the proper definition of "disease," a concept of central importance not only for bioethicists, but also for those |
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throughout clinical medicine, sociology, psychology, and law who deal with disease and its associated problems on an everyday basis. |
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UNINA9910784263103321 |
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Autore |
Jackson Emily <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Regulating reproduction : law, technology, and autonomy / / Emily Jackson |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2001 |
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9781841130540 |
1-4742-0044-3 |
1-280-80874-8 |
9786610808748 |
1-84731-145-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Human reproduction - Law and legislation - Great Britain |
Human reproductive technology - Law and legislation - Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-364) and index. |
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1. In Defence of Reproductive Autonomy -- 2. Birth Control -- 3. Abortion -- 4. Pregnancy and Childbirth -- 5. Reproductive Technologies -- 6. Surrogacy -- 7. Postscript. |
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"This new book provides a clear and accessible analysis of the various ways in which human reproduction is regulated. A comprehensive exposition of the law relating to birth control,abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, surrogacy and assisted conception is accompanied by an exploration of some of the complex ethical dilemmas that emerge when one of the most intimate areas of human life is subjected to regulatory control. Throughout the book, two principal themes recur. First, particular emphasis is placed upon the special difficulties that arise in regulating new technological intervention in all aspects of the reproductive process. Second, the concept of reproductive autonomy is |
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both interrogated and defended. This book offers a readable and engaging account of the complex relationships between law, technology and reproduction. It will be useful for lecturers and students taking medical law or ethics courses. It should also be of interest to anyone with a more general interest in women's bodies and the law, or with the profound regulatory consequences of new technologies."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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