Author: Harry Redner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: ethical, cultures, present, past, life
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-11
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0742512339
ISBN-13: 9780742512337
Ethical Life sets out to act as a guide for those of us who want to better understand ethics. It offers answers to the two simplest and yet most difficult questions facing individuals who have fallen into the perplexities of contemporary life: Why be ethical, and how?
Author: Council of Europe
Publisher: Council of Europe
Keywords: ethical, eye, transplants
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2003-03
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 9287147795
ISBN-13: 9789287147790
Author: Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Dev
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: making, biomedicine, decision, ethical, choices, social, society
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1995-02-27
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 0309051320
ISBN-13: 9780309051323
This book discusses ways for people to handle today’s bioethical issues in the context of America’s history and culture--and from the perspective of various interest groups. Included is a series of background papers by well-known experts in the field.
Author: EC-Council
Publisher: Course Technology
Keywords: ethical, press, series, certified, hacker, council, mechanisms, hacking, countermeasures, threats, defense
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-09-22
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1435483618
ISBN-13: 9781435483613
The EC-Council | Press Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures Series is comprised of five books covering a broad base of topics in offensive network security, ethical hacking, and network defense and countermeasures. The content of this series is designed to immerse the reader into an interactive environment where they will be shown how to scan, test, hack and secure information systems. With the full series of books, the reader will gain in-depth knowledge and practical experience with essential security systems, and become prepared to succeed on the Certified Ethical Hacker, or C|EH, certificat
Authors:Patrick Flanagan, Patrick Primeaux, William Ferguson
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: ethical, issues, organizations, research, world, ethics, insurance, volume
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2007-04-03
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0762313331
ISBN-13: 9780762313334
This series explores the central and unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining a flourishing, pluralistic, free enterprise economy. It examines how profit seeking and not-for-profit organizations can be conceived and designed to satisfy legitimate human needs in an ethical and meaningful way. The authors submit rigorous research studies from a wide variety of academic perspectives including: business management, philosophy, sociology, psychology, religion, accounting, finance, and marketing. * Focuses on ethical issues in the insuranc
Author: Committee on Ethical Considerations for Revisions
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: prisoners, involving, research, considerations, ethical
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0309101190
ISBN-13: 9780309101196
In the past 30 years, the population of prisoners in the United States has expanded almost 5-fold, correctional facilities are increasingly overcrowded, and more of the country’s disadvantaged populations - racial minorities, women, people with mental illness, and people with communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis are under correctional supervision. Because prisoners face restrictions on liberty and autonomy, have limited privacy, and often receive inadequate health care, they require specific protections when involved in research, particularly in todayR
Authors:Thomas Nys, Thomas Nys, Yvonne Denier, Toon Vandeveld
Publisher: David Brown
Keywords: ethical, perspectives, monograph, series, care, health, paternalism, reflections, theory, practice, autonomy
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 2007-12-31
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 9042918802
ISBN-13: 9789042918801
In recent years, the triumph of autonomy has made paternalist interventions increasingly problematic. The value of a patient’s right to self-determination and the practice of informed consent are considered supremely important in present-day health care ethics. In general, the idea of ’doctor knows best’ has become more and more suspicious. This has left us with a situation in which paternalist medicine seems difficult to reconcile with respect for patient autonomy. This book offers a thorough reflection on the relationship between autonomy and paternalism, and argues that, f
