Nearly fifteen years after the Council of Europe first called for a pan‐European convention
on issues in bioethics to harmonize disparate national regulations, in November 1996 the …

This book focuses on experimentation that is carried out on human beings, including
medical research, drug research and research undertaken in the social sciences. It …

In August 2004, Stojkovic and Murdoch from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK,
were granted the UK's first license to create human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) using cell …

Normativity is a concept that is often misapplied in disability studies, especially in
'postconventional'accounts, where the concept is conflated with 'normal','normate', or …

Die medizinische Ethik hat sich seit jeher mit Fragen von Leben und Tod beschäftigt. Dies
hat sie aber meist in kleinen Zirkeln von Fachleuten getan, vor dem Hintergrund …

Die Erschütterungen eines tiefgreifenden Wandels gesellschaftlicher Strukturen durch neue
Informationstechnologien, globalen Wirtschaftswettbewerb und Grenzen der sozialen …

Objective.—To determine the role of advance directives in decisions to withdraw chronic
dialysis in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Design.—Survey by questionnaire …

This paper discusses the policy debate and ethical discussion surrounding pre-implantation
genetic diagnosis (PGD) for sibling donor (SD) in Germany and Israel. Based on an analysis …

Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair
human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level-that of the cell. The power of stem …

Objectives: To elicit types and frequencies of end-of-life practices by physician members of
the German Society for Palliative Medicine. To analyse associations between characteristics …