The Series on Practical and Professional Ethics is an outcome of major research project funded by the U.G.C. in which the task of resolving some value-laden practical problems troubling the professionals and the non-professionals in India was undertaken. Apart from clarifying the nature, tasks and interrelation of practical and professional ethics, volume one considers five categories of ethical or value-laden practical problems such as Environmental, Biomedical, Educational, Economic and Business and Socio-Political Ethics. And their resolutions have been explained in volumes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively. This volume deals with the ethical issues in biology and medicine. Describing the nature and justification of biomedical ethics, it discusses in detail the categorization of value-laden biomedical problems, resolution of these problems and models appropriate for resolution. It also addresses the ethical issues of public healthcare; and donation, banking and transplantation of biological materials. The importance of people's participation in biomedical decision making has been highlighted as well.
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Nov 22, 2022
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