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This book explores the challenges of informed consent in medical
intervention and research ethics, considering the global reality of
multiculturalism and religious diversity. Even though informed
consent is a gold standard in research ethics, its theoretical
foundation is based on the conception of individual subjects making
autonomous decisions. There is a need to reconsider autonomy as
relational-where family members, community and religious leaders
can play an important part in the consent process. The volume
re-evaluates informed consent in multicultural contexts and
features perspectives from Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism,
Christianity, Judaism and Islam. It is valuable reading for
scholars interested in bioethics, healthcare ethics, research
ethics, comparative religions, theology, human rights, law and
sociology.
This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity
in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information
technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences.
It considers the influence of emergent technology upon our
understanding of human nature and the impact on future generations.
Drawing on the Catholic tradition, in particular, the book gathers
international contributions from scientific, philosophical, legal,
and religious perspectives. Together they offer a positive step in
an ongoing dialogue regarding the promises and perils of emergent
technology for man's integral human development.
Attitudes towards science, medicine and the body are all profoundly
shaped by people's worldviews. When discussing issues of bioethics,
religion often plays a major role. In this volume, the role of
genetic manipulation and neurotechnology in shaping human identity
is examined from multiple religious perspectives. This can help us
to understand how religion might affect the impact of the
initiatives such as the UNESCO Declaration in Bioethics and Human
Rights. The book features bioethics experts from six major
religions: Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism,
and Judaism. It includes a number of distinct religious and
cultural views on the anthropological, ethical and social
challenges of emerging technologies in the light of human rights
and in the context of global bioethics. The contributors work
together to explore issues such as: cultural attitudes to gene
editing; neuroactive drugs; the interaction between genes and
behaviours; the relationship between the soul, the mind and DNA;
and how can clinical applications of these technologies benefit the
developing world. This is a significant collection, demonstrating
how religion and modern technologies relate to one another. It
will, therefore, be of great interest to academics working in
bioethics, religion and the body, interreligious dialogue, and
religion and science, technology and neuroscience.
Attitudes towards science, medicine and the body are all profoundly
shaped by people's worldviews. When discussing issues of bioethics,
religion often plays a major role. In this volume, the role of
genetic manipulation and neurotechnology in shaping human identity
is examined from multiple religious perspectives. This can help us
to understand how religion might affect the impact of the
initiatives such as the UNESCO Declaration in Bioethics and Human
Rights. The book features bioethics experts from six major
religions: Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism,
and Judaism. It includes a number of distinct religious and
cultural views on the anthropological, ethical and social
challenges of emerging technologies in the light of human rights
and in the context of global bioethics. The contributors work
together to explore issues such as: cultural attitudes to gene
editing; neuroactive drugs; the interaction between genes and
behaviours; the relationship between the soul, the mind and DNA;
and how can clinical applications of these technologies benefit the
developing world. This is a significant collection, demonstrating
how religion and modern technologies relate to one another. It
will, therefore, be of great interest to academics working in
bioethics, religion and the body, interreligious dialogue, and
religion and science, technology and neuroscience.
This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views
on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of
reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the
context of global bioethics. It includes contributions of bioethics
experts from six major religions-Buddhism, Confucianism,
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism-as well as secular
authors. The chapters include commentaries discussing the content
cross-religious/secular tradition to give a comparative
perspective. Not only the volume editors but also the contributing
authors took part in reviewing each others' chapter making this a
unique collected volume, not common in interreligious dialogue
today. This text appeals to researchers and students working in the
fields of bioethics and religious/secular studies.
This book addresses a broad range of topics, from newly proposed
techniques in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to
various applications such as decision-making, pattern
classification for data, image and signals, robotics, and control
systems. Big data applications are discussed, while improved
methods and wholly new methods for using deep learning technologies
are also presented. The topics covered are comprehensive and
reflect a wide range of technologies in the area. In particular,
the latest methods in deep learning approaches and applications are
discussed in many parts of the book, providing a better
understanding of these new technologies. The book's general scope
includes the latest methods in the areas of Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning for use in distributed computing as well as
decision support systems. As the book covers a rather wide area,
its intended readership ranges from those working in AI and machine
learning technologies to those working on applications utilizing
these technologies, researchers new to these areas who need
background information on the technologies and applications, and
more experienced researchers looking for new methods and
applications.
With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are
vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend
themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO
working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen
this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity.
This book serves to supplement this effort with a
religious perspective given a great number of the world’s
population is affiliated with some religious
traditions. While there is diversity within each of
these traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect
the weak, the underprivileged, and the poor. Thus, here presented
is a collection of papers written by bioethics experts from
six major world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism,
Hinduism, Islam and Judaism—who were gathered to discuss the
meaning and implications of the principle of vulnerability in
their respective traditions. Â Â Â Â
With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are
vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The
International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for
the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human
vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to
supplement this effort with a religious perspective given a great
number of the world's population is affiliated with some religious
traditions. While there is diversity within each of these
traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect the
weak, the underprivileged, and the poor. Thus, here presented is a
collection of papers written by bioethics experts from six major
world religions-Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism,
Islam and Judaism-who were gathered to discuss the meaning and
implications of the principle of vulnerability in their respective
traditions.
This book describes the first comprehensive approach to the
optimization of interconnect architectures in 3D systems on chips
(SoCs), specially addressing the challenges and opportunities
arising from heterogeneous integration. Readers learn about the
physical implications of using heterogeneous 3D technologies for
SoC integration, while also learning to maximize the 3D-technology
gains, through a physical-effect-aware architecture design. The
book provides a deep theoretical background covering all
abstraction-levels needed to research and architect tomorrow's
3D-integrated circuits, an extensive set of optimization methods
(for power, performance, area, and yield), as well as an
open-source optimization and simulation framework for fast
exploration of novel designs.
How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula
eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with
authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays
challenges the view that local powers were straightforwardly
subjugated to the expanding central power of the monarchy. Rather
than interpret countervailing events as mere 'delays' in this
inevitable process, the contributors to this book interrogate where
these events came from, which causes can be uncovered and how much
influence individual actors had in this process. What emerges is a
story of contested interests seeking cooperation through
institutions and social practices that were flexible enough to
stabilise a system that was hierarchical yet mutually beneficial
for multiple social groups. By examining the Visigothic settlement,
the interplay between central and local power, the use of ethnic
identity, projections of authority, and the role of the Church,
this book articulates a model for understanding the formation of a
large and important early medieval kingdom.
This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views
on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of
reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the
context of global bioethics. It includes contributions of bioethics
experts from six major religions-Buddhism, Confucianism,
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism-as well as secular
authors. The chapters include commentaries discussing the content
cross-religious/secular tradition to give a comparative
perspective. Not only the volume editors but also the contributing
authors took part in reviewing each others' chapter making this a
unique collected volume, not common in interreligious dialogue
today. This text appeals to researchers and students working in the
fields of bioethics and religious/secular studies.
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Day of the Flowers (DVD)
Eva Birthistle, Charity Wakefield, Bryan Dick, Christopher Simpson, Carlos A. Costa, …
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Discovery Miles 650
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John Roberts directs this romantic comedy following a pair of
sisters who head to Cuba to scatter the ashes of their deceased
father. Rosa (Eva Birthistle), a committed socialist, is determined
to rescue the memory of her father from the fate her stepmother has
planned: using his ashes to make a golf trophy. In tribute to her
father's glamorous past as a revolutionary who once visited Cuba,
she steals the ashes and heads to the Caribbean island in the
company of her more materialistic sister Ailie (Charity Wakefield)
and their friend Conway (Bryan Dick). They come face-to-face with
both the good and bad of the island in the form of conman Ernesto
(Christopher Simpson) and protective tour guide Tomas (Carlos
Acosta). How will the experience change them?
Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of
the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican
men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers
from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico,
historian Alberto Garcia uncovers previously unexamined political
factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how
officials administered the bracero selection process and what
motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably,
Garcia's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's
delegation of Bracero Program-related responsibilities, the
powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in
central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian
reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and
individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.
Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of
the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican
men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers
from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico,
historian Alberto Garcia uncovers previously unexamined political
factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how
officials administered the bracero selection process and what
motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably,
Garcia's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's
delegation of Bracero Program-related responsibilities, the
powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in
central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian
reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and
individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.
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Nanohybrids (Paperback)
Gaurav Sharma, Alberto Garcia-Penas
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R2,290
Discovery Miles 22 900
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