Heading Towards Humans Again: Aspects of Bioethicsin the New Age of Science (Applied Ethics: from Bioethics to Environmental Ethics) - Hardcover

Miroslav Radenkovi? (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 6156405054 ISBN 13: 9786156405050

Publisher: Trivent Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Bioethics has become an important part of everyday dynamics, encompassing both clinical and research ethics. This edited collection aims to challenge some critical cornerstones of today's contemporary bioethical concerns and issues. The individual chapters were prepared by esteemed scholars with international background in their specialties. Nowadays technological revolution is reaching a whole new level, continuously challenging us to define what is human. Keeping this in mind, the authors provided comprehensive and thoughtful views on different bioethical issues, including cultural and social influences on contemporary bioethics, posthumanism and transhumanism, death, the critical importance of informed consent, prenatal genetic testing, gene and cell therapy, mandatory vaccinations, cannabis use, antidoping concerns, treatment of rare diseases and pain management, and finally educational and legislative lines of reasoning.

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About the Author

Miroslav Radenkovi?, MD, PhD, is a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. Since 2002, he has been officially participating in research activities of several scientific projects supported by the Ministry of Science in Serbia. In 2007, he was the principal investigator in a scientific project financed by the Austrian Science Fund at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. In 2021, he graduated from a Bioethics Masters Program at Clarkson University, NYC, USA. Dr. Radenkovi? is also an official participant in the NIH Fogarty International Center Project with the main aim of establishing a bioethics masters program at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. In 2021, Dr. Radenkovi? became a member of the Ethics Committee of Serbia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trivent Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6156405054
• ISBN 13: 9786156405050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 231