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6 Ιουν 2019 · The curriculum of critical care and emergency clinicians is usually packed with basic and advanced life support courses: cardiovascular emergencies, trauma, pre-hospital care, pediatric emergencies, and extra-corporeal life support are just a few examples of the most common topics.
3 Οκτ 2024 · To answer the questions of definition, then, life here means biological human life; its value is linked with human—God-given or socially evolved—nature; the commitment is unconditional because it is dictated by natural law or the categorical imperative; and bioethics, the ethics of human life, safeguards this unconditional commitment.
18 Νοε 2021 · The use of artificial maintenance of life support and organ transplant leads to introduce a new criterion of death determination of permanently nonfunctioning brain, called irreversible coma equated to brain death. In recent years, however, controversy has arisen about the clinical and ethical validity of the neurological standard.
Bioethics is the multi-disciplinary study of, and response, to these moral and ethical questions. Bioethical questions often involve overlapping concerns from diverse fields of study including life sciences, biotechnology, public health, medicine, public policy, law, philosophy and theology.
Examples of ethical theories that have been put to work in bioethics are utilitarianism, 8 Kantian ethics, 9 a rules-based common morality theory, 10 and virtue ethics. 11 Other theoretical approaches to bioethics are distinguished less by the content of their central ethical norms than by their methods for investigating ethical questions.
Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, medicine, and technologies.
8 Μαρ 2018 · This list of essential readings in bioethics is designed to introduce readers to the breadth of writing in the field. Some of the pieces address questions foundational to the field—about reproductive rights, research with human subjects, end -of-life care, and organ donation.