Population genomics research drawing on genetic databases has expanded rapidly, with some of this information being combined in 'biobanks'. Managing this information in an appropriate way is a highly complex ethical issue in the health policy arena. This book combines theoretical and empirical research to analyze the areas of conflict and consensus in the regulatory and ethical frameworks that have been developed to govern biobanks. Ethicists from the Department of Ethics, Trade, Human Rig...

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; the divis...

An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question of responsible decision-making in those social areas where tragic choices have to be made. The effort is an excellent example of research into, and therapy for, an important social process.

Dans la jungle numérique, chaque clic peut vous piéger : apprenez à déjouer les fake news et à reprendre le contrôle de votre information.Perdu·e dans le brouillard des réseaux sociaux ? Les fausses informations n’ont jamais été aussi virales, aussi sophistiquées, et aussi proches de vous. Alexandre Capron, journaliste et expert du fact-checking, vous livre douze ans d’expérience pour ne plus jamais tomber dans les pièges de la désinformation.Images truquée...