Adaptation And Autonomy Adaptive Preferences In Enhancing And Ending Life
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Adaptation And Autonomy Adaptive Preferences In Enhancing And Ending Life
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Author : Juha Räikkä
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Adaptation And Autonomy Adaptive Preferences In Enhancing And Ending Life written by Juha Räikkä and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Philosophy categories.
This volume gathers together previously unpublished articles focusing on the relationship between preference adaptation and autonomy in connection with human enhancement and in the end-of-life context. The value of individual autonomy is a cornerstone of liberal societies. While there are different conceptions of the notion, it is arguable that on any plausible understanding of individual autonomy an autonomous agent needs to take into account the conditions that circumscribe its actions. Yet it has also been suggested that allowing one’s options to affect one’s preferences threatens autonomy. While this phenomenon has received some attention in other areas of moral philosophy, it has seldom been considered in bioethics. This book combines for the first time the topics of preference adaptation, individual autonomy, and choosing to die or to enhance human capacities in a unique and comprehensive volume, filling an important knowledge gap in the contemporary bioethics literature.
The Oxford Handbook Of Ethics At The End Of Life
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Author : Stuart J. Youngner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Oxford Handbook Of Ethics At The End Of Life written by Stuart J. Youngner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Medical categories.
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
Theories Of The Self And Autonomy In Medical Ethics
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Author : Michael Kühler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-09-29
Theories Of The Self And Autonomy In Medical Ethics written by Michael Kühler and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with Philosophy categories.
This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients’ autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions. These cases pose specific epistemic, normative, and practical problems, and the book elucidates the connection between the practical implications of the theoretical debate on respecting autonomy, on the one hand, and specific questions and challenges that arise in medical practice, on the other hand. Given that the idea of personal autonomy includes the notion of authenticity as one of its core components, the book explicitly includes discussions on underlying theories of the self. In doing so, it brings together original contributions and novel insights for “applied” scenarios based on interdisciplinary collaboration between German and Serbian scholars from philosophy, sociology, and law. It is of benefit to anyone cherishing autonomy in medical ethics and medical practice.
New Methuselahs
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Author : John K. Davis
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-03-19
New Methuselahs written by John K. Davis and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with Science categories.
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation. Life extension—slowing or halting human aging—is now being taken seriously by many scientists. Although no techniques to slow human aging yet exist, researchers have successfully slowed aging in yeast, mice, and fruit flies, and have determined that humans share aging-related genes with these species. In New Methuselahs, John Davis offers a philosophical discussion of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension. Why consider these issues now, before human life extension is a reality? Davis points out that, even today, we are making policy and funding decisions about human life extension research that have ethical implications. With New Methuselahs, he provides a comprehensive guide to these issues, offering policy recommendations and a qualified defense of life extension. After an overview of the ethics and science of life extension, Davis considers such issues as the desirability of extended life; whether refusing extended life is a form of suicide; the Malthusian threat of overpopulation; equal access to life extension; and life extension and the right against harm. In the end, Davis sides neither with those who argue that there are no moral objections to life enhancement nor with those who argue that the moral objections are so strong that we should never develop it. Davis argues that life extension is, on balance, a good thing and that we should fund life extension research aggressively, and he proposes a feasible and just policy for preventing an overpopulation crisis.
The Routledge Handbook Of Philosophy Of Well Being
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Author : Guy Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-30
The Routledge Handbook Of Philosophy Of Well Being written by Guy Fletcher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with Philosophy categories.
The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy. Following the boom in happiness studies in the last few years it has moved to centre stage, grabbing media headlines and the attention of scientists, psychologists and economists. Yet little is actually known about well-being and it is an idea that is often poorly articulated. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being provides a comprehensive, outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising over 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts: well-being in the history of philosophy current theories of well-being, including hedonism and perfectionism examples of well-being and its opposites, including friendship and virtue and pain and death theoretical issues, such as well-being and value, harm, identity and well-being and children well-being in moral and political philosophy well-being and related subjects, including law, economics and medicine. Essential reading for students and researchers in ethics and political philosophy, it is also an invaluable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology, politics and sociology.
The Precariat In Western China
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Author : Xueyang Ma
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-06-17
The Precariat In Western China written by Xueyang Ma and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-17 with Political Science categories.
This book provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the experiences and dynamics of precarious workers’ in-work poverty in western China. The research presented in this book identifies the causes and the consequences of precarious employment and in-work poverty and analyses the stakeholders’ responses to the changes in the context of employment in China's socialist market economy. The book explains why precarious workers tend to remain outsiders to rapid socio-economic transformation and informs readers as to how people make choices, how those with different abilities adapt to the process of de-traditionalisation and how marketisation changes people’s lifestyles, value systems, policy designs. Detailing empirical investigations of the experience and dynamics of workers’ precarious life, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese society, social policy and poverty.
In Our Best Interest
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Author : Jason Hanna
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-21
In Our Best Interest written by Jason Hanna and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-21 with Philosophy categories.
When, if ever, is it permissible to intervene in a person's affairs for his or her own good? This, in essence, is the moral problem of paternalism. Many consider paternalism morally objectionable. In this book, Jason Hanna argues boldly for an alternative pro-paternalist view: that intervention is permissible so long as it serves the best interest of the person subject to it, without thereby wronging others. To Hanna, the moral debate over paternalism is most fundamentally a debate about the weight and relevance of a certain kind of reason or rationale for intervention. In arguing that paternalistic rationales provide valid and weighty reasons, Hanna considers the objections that paternalism is disrespectful, that it wrongly imposes values on people, that it violates individual rights, and that it is likely to be misapplied or abused. He argues that each of these objections fails to demonstrate that there is anything distinctively problematic about paternalism. Moreover, he attempts to situate pro-paternalism within a popular rights-based moral theory. Hanna shows that popular alternatives to pro-paternalism confront serious problems of their own, especially insofar as they attempt to distinguish permissible intervention on behalf of incompetent persons from impermissible intervention on behalf of competent adults. Although the book's central aim is to defend a moral view, it suggests how this view can be fruitfully applied in a number of real-world contexts.
Exploring The Philosophy Of Death And Dying
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Author : Travis Timmerman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
Exploring The Philosophy Of Death And Dying written by Travis Timmerman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Philosophy categories.
Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to offer students the full breadth of philosophical issues that are raised by the end of life. Included are many of the essential voices that have contributed to the philosophy of death and dying throughout history and in contemporary research. The 38 chapters in its nine sections contain classic texts (by authors such as Epicurus, Hume, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer) and new short argumentative essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by world-leading contemporary experts. Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying introduces students to both theoretical issues (whether we can survive death, whether death is truly bad for us, whether immortality would be desirable, etc.) and urgent practical issues (the ethics of suicide, the value of grief, the appropriate medical criteria for declaring death, etc.) raised by human mortality, enabling instructors to adapt it to a wide array of institutions and student audiences. As a pedagogical benefit, PowerPoints, discussion questions, and test questions for each chapter are included as online ancillary materials.
Kwaliteit Als Ervaring
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Author : Hans Reinders
language : nl
Publisher: Gompel&Svacina
Release Date : 2019-09-06
Kwaliteit Als Ervaring written by Hans Reinders and has been published by Gompel&Svacina this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-06 with Medical categories.
Het denken over kwaliteit in de langdurige zorg is aan het schuiven. De tijd van ‘meetbare kwaliteit’ lijkt voorbij. In plaats daarvan is ‘narratieve verantwoording’ in opmars. Hans Reinders onderzoekt deze verschuiving en het denken waarop ze berust. Uitgaande van de langdurige zorg voert hij een pleidooi voor kwaliteitsonderzoek niet ter verantwoording maar in dienst van de dagelijkse praktijk. “Kwaliteit als ervaring kan met recht het opus magnum van Hans Reinders worden genoemd. Decennia ervaring van de auteur komen samen in een boek dat leest als een reis. Of beter gezegd, een ontdekkingstocht naar waar het werkelijk om gaat in de langdurige zorg. Betekenis en zin geven aan verhalen van mensen. Weg met ‘de cliënt centraal’. Het gaat om mens-zijn en om de erkenning van individuele identiteit.” Laurent de Vries, bestuurder Viattence, organisatie voor ouderenzorg “In dit boek zet Hans Reinders ons aan het denken, allereerst door een gedegen methodische vergelijking van kwaliteitsmetingen passend bij de notie dat ‘kwaliteit van bestaan’ het voornaamste ijkpunt is in de langdurige zorg. Vervolgens door allen die betrokken zijn bij de langdurige zorg een spiegel voor te houden met zijn verslag van het narratieve verantwoordingsinstrument ‘beelden van kwaliteit’. Na het lezen van dit boek kun je niet meer kijken als daarvoor.” Marius Buiting, directeur Nederlandse Vereniging van Toezichthouders in de Zorginstellingen (NVTZ) “Kwaliteit van bestaan is een ervaringsbegrip, schrijft Hans Reinders. Het gaat er immers om hoe de cliënt de zorg beleeft, of de zorg aansluit op diens behoeften en verwachtingen. In zijn boek werkt Reinders dit uit voor de zorg aan mensen met een verstandelijke beperking, mensen met niet-aangeboren hersenletsel, en mensen met beperkingen als gevolg van ouderdom. Het boek zal zorgverleners aanspreken, omdat het ook raakt aan hun eigen verhaal.” Ronnie van Diemen, inspecteur-generaal Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd “Mijn complimenten voor dit mooie boek. Op dit boek hebben velen zitten wachten. Het zal aan een grote behoefte voldoen. Hans Reinders beschrijft op overtuigende wijze dat voor het bevorderen van kwaliteit van bestaan in de langdurige zorg de narratieve methode en de zelfreflecterende professional essentieel zijn.” Henk J. Smid, directeur van ZonMw
Adaptation Poverty And Development
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Author : D. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-04-05
Adaptation Poverty And Development written by D. Clark and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-05 with Political Science categories.
The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.