Encyclopedia of bioethics

V. 1. Abo-Dea

v. 2. Dec-Hyp

v. 3. Iat-Mul

v. 4. Nar-Rus

v. 5. San-Zoo. Alphabetical list of article titles

Abortion: medical perspectives, Contemporary ethical perspectives, Legal and regulatory issues, Religious traditions, Jewish perspectives, Roman Catholic perspectives, Protestant perspectives, Islamic perspectives

Abuse, interpersonal: Child abuse, Abuse between domestic partners, Elder abuse

Academic health centers

Action

Adolescents

Adoption

Advertising

African religion

Aging and the aged: Theories of aging and life extension, Life expectancy and life span, Societal aging, Health-care and research issues, Old age

Agriculture

AIDS: Public-health issues, Health-care and research issues

Allied health professions

Alternative therapies: Social history, Ethical and legal issues

Animal research: Historical aspects, Philosophical issues, Law and policy

Animal welfare and rights: Ethical perspectives on the treatment and status of animals, Vegetarianism, Wildlife conservation and management, Pet and companion animals, Zoos and zoological parks, hunting, Animals in agriculture and factory farming

Artificial hearts and cardiac-assist devices

Artificial organs and life-support systems

Authority

Autoexperimentation

Autonomy

Behavior control

Behaviorism: History of behavioral psychology, Philosophical issues

Behavior modification therapies

Beneficence

Bioethics

Bioethics education: Introduction, Medicine, Nursing, Other health professions, Secondary and postsecondary education

Biology, philosophy of

Biomedical engineering

Biotechnology

Blood transfusion

Body: Embodiment: the phenomenological tradition, Social theories, Cultural and religious perspectives

Buddhism Care: History of the notion of care, Historical dimensions of an ethic of care in health care Contemporary ethics of care

Casuistry

Children: History of childhood, Rights of children, Health-care and research issues, Mental-health issues, Child custody

Chronic care

Circumcision: Female circumcision, Male circumcision

Civil disobedience and health care

Climatic change

Clinical ethics: Elements and methodologies, Clinical ethics consultation, Institutional ethics committees

Commercialism in scientific research

Commitment to mental institutions

Communication, biomedical: Media and medicine, Scientific publishing, Media and bioethics

Compassion

Competence

Confidentiality

Conflict of Interest

Confucianism

Conscience

Cryonics

Death: Anthropological perspectives, Eastern thought, Western philosophical thought, Western religious thought, Death in the Western world, Death in the Western world-a postscript

Death, Attitudes toward

Death, definition and determination of: Criteria for death, Legal issues in pronouncing death, Philosophical and theological perspectives

Death: art of dying: Ars moriendi, contemporary art of dying

Death and dying: euthanasia and sustaining life: historical aspects, Ethical issues, Advance directives, professional and public policies

Death education

Death penalty

Dentistry

Disability: Attitudes and sociological perspectives, Philosophical and theological perspectives, Health care and physical disability, Legal issues

Disability for public office, Divided loyalties in mental-health care

DNA typing

Double effect

Eastern Orthodox Christianity Economic concepts in health care

Electrical stimulation of the brain

Electroconvulsive therapy

Emotions

Endangered species and biodiversity

Environmental ethics: Overview, Deep ecology, Land ethic, Ecofeminism

Environmental health

Environmental policy and law

Environment and religion

Epidemics

Ethics: Task of ethics, Moral Epistemology, Normative ethical theories, Social and political theories, Religion and morality

Eugenics: Historical aspects, Ethical issues

Eugenics and religious law: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism

Evolution

Expert testimony

Family

Feminism

Fertility control: medical aspects, Social issues, Ethical issues, Legal and regulatory issues

Fetus: Human development from fertilization to birth, Philosophical and ethical issues, Fetal research

Fidelity and loyalty

Food policy

Fraud, theft and Plagiarism

Freedom and coercion

Friendship

Future generations, Obligations to

Gender identity and gender-identity disorders

Gene therapy: Strategies for gene therapy, Ethical and social issues

Genetic Counseling: Practice of genetic counseling, Ethical issues

Genetic Engineering: Animals and plants, Human genetic engineering

Genetics and environment in human health

Genetics and human behavior: Scientific and research issues, Philosophical and ethical issues

Genetics and human self understanding

Genetics and the law

Genetics and racial minorities

Genetic testing and screening: Preimplantation embryo diagnosis, Prenatal diagnosis, Newborn screening, Carrier screening, Predictive and workplace testing, Legal issues, Ethical issues Genome mapping and sequencing

Harm

Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Healing

Health care, quality of

Health care delivery: Health care systems, health care institutions

Health care financing: Introduction, Health care insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Profit and commercialism

Health care resources, allocation of: Macroallocation, Microallocation

Health and disease: History of the concepts, Sociological perspectives, Anthropological perspectives, Philosophical perspectives, The experience of health and illness

Health officials and their responsibilities

Health policy: Politics and health care, Health policy in international perspective

Health promotion and health education

Health screening and testing in the public health context

Hinduism Homicide

Homosexuality: Clinical and behavioral aspects, Ethical issues

Hospice and end of life care

Hospital: Medieval and Renaissance History, Modern history, Contemporary ethical problems

Human nature

Hypnosis

Iatrogenic illness and injury

Impaired professionals

Infants: Medical aspects and issues in the car of infants, History of infanticide, Ethical issues, Public policy and legal issues

Information disclosure: Attitudes toward truth-telling, Ethical issues

Informed consent: History of informed consent, Meaning and elements of informed consent, Consent issues in human research, Clinical aspects of consent in health care, Legal and ethical issues of consent in health care, Issues o consent in mental health care

Injury and injury control

Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization

International health

Interpretation

Islam

Jainism

Judaism Justice

Kidney dialysis

Laboratory testing

Law and bioethics

Law and morality

Licensing, discipline and regulation in the health professions

Life

Life, quality of

Quality of life in clinical decisions

Quality of life in health care allocation

Quality of life in legal perspective

Lifestyles and public health

Literature

Long term care: concept and policies, nursing homes, Home care

Love

Marriage and other domestic partnerships

Maternal fetal relationship: Medical aspects, Ethical issues, Legal and regulatory issues

Medical codes and oaths: History Ethical analysis

Medical education

Medical ethics, history of: Near and Middle East (Ancient Near East, Iran, Turkey, Contemporary Arab world, Israel), Africa (Sub-Saharan countries, South Africa), South and East Asia: General survey, India, Prerepublican China, Contemporary China, Japan through the Nineteenth Century, Contemporary Japan, Southeast Asian countries), Europe: Ancient and medieval (Greece and Rome, Early Christianity, Medieval Christian Europe), Renaissance and Enlightenment, Nineteenth century Europe/Great Britain), Contemporary Period (Southern Europe, The Benelux countries, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, German-speaking countries and Switzerland, Nordic countries, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia), The Americas: Colonial North America and nineteenth century United States, The United States in the Twentieth century, Canada, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand

Medical genetics: Practice of medical genetics, Ethical and social issues

Medical information systems

Medical malpractice Medicine, anthropology of

Medicine, art of

Medicine, philosophy of

Medicine, sociology of

Medicine as a profession

Mental health: The meaning of mental health, Mental health and religion

Mental health services: Settings and programs, Ethical issues

Mental health therapies

Mental illness: Conceptions of mental illness, Cross cultural perspectives, Issues in diagnosis

Mentally disabled and mentally ill persons: Health care issues, Research issues

Metaphor and analogy

Military personnel as research subjects

Minorities as research subjects

Multinational research

Narrative

National socialism

Native American religions Natural law

Nature

Nursing, theories and philosophy of

Nursing ethics

Nursing as a profession

Obligation and supererogation

Occupational safety and health: Ethical issues, Occupational health care providers, Testing of employees

Organ and tissue procurement: Medical and organizational aspects, Ethical and legal issues regarding cadavers, Ethical and legal issues regarding living donors

Organ and tissue transplants: Medical overview, Sociocultural aspects, Ethical and legal issues

Pain and suffering

Pastoral care

Patenting organisms

Paternalism

Patientsʼ responsibilities (Duties of patients, Virtues of patients)

Patientsʼ rights: Origin and nature of patientsʼ rights, Mental patientsʼ rights

Person

Pharmaceutics: Pharmaceutical industry, Issues in prescribing

Pharmacy

Placebo

Population ethics: Elements of Population ethics (Definition of population ethics, Is there a population problem, History of population theories), Normative approaches, Religious traditions (Islamic perspectives, Jewish perspectives, Roman Catholic perspectives, Eastern Orthodox Christian perspectives, Protestant perspectives, Hindu perspectives, Buddhist perspectives)

Population policies; Strategies of

Fertility control (Changes in attitude and culture, Incentives and disincentives, Strong persuasion, Compulsion), Health effects of fertility control, Migration and refugees, Donor agencies (Fertility control, Migration and refugees)

Prisoners: Health care issues, Torture and the health profession, Research issues)

Privacy and confidentiality in research

Privacy in health care

Privileged communications

Professional/patient relationship: Historical perspectives, Sociological perspectives, Ethical issues

Profession and professional ethics

Prostitution

Protestantism

Psychiatry, abuses of

Psychoanalysis and dynamic therapies

Psychopharmacology

Psychosurgery: Medical and historical aspects, Ethical aspects

Public health: Determinants of public health, History of public health, philosophy of public health, Public health methods: epidemiology and biostatistics

Public health and the law: Philosophy of the law of public health, Legal moralism and public health

Public policy and bioethics

Race and racism

Rehabilitation medicine

Reproductive technologies: Sex selection, Artificial insemination, In vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, Surrogacy, Cryopreservation of sperm, ova and embryos, Ethical issues, Legal and regulatory issues Research, human: Historical aspects

Research, unethical

Research bias

Research ethics committees

Research methodology: conceptual issues, Controlled clinical trials

Research policy: General background, Risk and vulnerable groups, Subject selection

Responsibility

Rights: Systematic analysis, Rights in bioethics

Risk

Roman Catholicism

Science, philosophy of

Self help

Sexism

Sex therapy and sex research: Scientific and clinical perspectives, Ethical issues

Sexual development

Sexual ethics

Sexual ethics and professional standards

Sexual identity

Sexuality in Society: Social control of sexual behavior, Legal approaches to sexuality

Sikhism

Social medicine

Social work in health care

Sports

Strikes by health professionals

Students as research subjects

Substance abuse: Addiction and dependence, Smoking, Alcoholism, Alcohol and other drugs in a public health context, Legal control of

Suicide

Surgery

Sustainable development

Taoism

Teams, health care

Technology: History of medical technology, Philosophy of technology, Technology assessment

Tragedy

Triage

Trust

Unorthodoxy in medicine

Utility

Value and valuation

Veterinary ethics

Virtue and character

Warfare: Medicine and war, Public health and war, Nuclear warfare, Chemical and biological weapons, International weapons trade

Whistleblowing in health care

Women: Historical and cross cultural perspectives, Health care issues, Research issues, Women as health professionals (History, Contemporary issues)

Zenografts