Methods And Morals In The Life Sciences

Author : Wim J. van der Steen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313075972
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methods and Morals in the Life Sciences written by Wim J. van der Steen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most researchers would be amazed to discover that opinions they have about cherished themes in biology and medicine are biased. Van der Steen and Ho contend that logic and methodology are not well applied in biology and medicine, arguing that the impact of social and moral factors on claims within these two disciplines is underestimated. In response to this situation, Van der Steen and Ho present tools from logic and ethics for assessing existing literature. These tools will help to create sound articles and materials in the life sciences. After reviewing logic and methodological approaches, broad guidelines are used to place science in a social context. Examples from life sciences illustrate the implementation of logic, methodology, and guidelines in forty-five brief case studies. Each study includes comments on quoted and paraphrased passages from a single article or book. Cross-references facilitate the assimilation of lessons from the text. Students, researchers, and scholars in biology, biomedicine, philosophy, and ethics as applied to the life sciences will find this guide useful in improving their research and writing skills.

Author : Gary L. Comstock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048187923
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Science Ethics written by Gary L. Comstock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does nature have intrinsic value? Should we be doing more to save wilderness and ocean ecosystems? What are our duties to future generations of humans? Do animals have rights? This revised edition of "Life Science Ethics" introduces these questions using narrative case studies on genetically modified foods, use of animals in research, nanotechnology, and global climate change, and then explores them in detail using essays written by nationally-recognized experts in the ethics field. Part I introduces ethics, the relationship of religion to ethics, how we assess ethical arguments, and a method ethicists use to reason about ethical theories. Part II demonstrates the relevance of ethical reasoning to the environment, land, farms, food, biotechnology, genetically modified foods, animals in agriculture and research, climate change, and nanotechnology. Part III presents case studies for the topics found in Part II.

Author : Andreas Hofmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107044707
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methods of Molecular Analysis in the Life Sciences written by Andreas Hofmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible overview of the most popular and cutting-edge methods for studying the properties of molecules and their interactions.

Author : Isabelle Dussauge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191003727
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine written by Isabelle Dussauge and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values. This volume articulates a pragmatist stance for the study of the making of values in society, exploring various sites within life sciences and medicine and asking how values are at play. This means taking seriously the work scientists, regulators, analysts, professionals and publics regularly do, in order to define what counts as proper conduct in science and health care, what is economically valuable, and what is known and worth knowing. A number of analytical and methodological means to investigate these concerns are presented. The editors introduce a way to indicate an empirically oriented research program into the enacting, ordering and displacing of values. They argue that a research programme of this kind, makes it possible to move orthogonally to the question of what values are, and thus ask how they are constituted. This rectifies some central problems that arise with approaches that depend on stabilized understandings of value. At the heart of it, such a research programme encourages the examination of how and with what means certain things come to count as valuable and desirable, how registers of value are ordered as well as displaced. It further encourages a sense that these matters could be, and sometimes simultaneously are, otherwise.

Author : Michael J. Selgelid
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1925021343
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Dual Uses of Science and Ethics written by Michael J. Selgelid and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claims about the transformations enabled by modern science and medicine have been accompanied by an unsettling question in recent years: might the knowledge being produced undermine – rather than further – human and animal well being? On the Dual Uses of Science and Ethics examines the potential for the skills, know-how, information, and techniques associated with modern biology to serve contrasting ends. In recognition of the moral ambiguity of science and technology, each chapter considers steps that might be undertaken to prevent the deliberate spread of disease. Central to achieving this aim is the consideration of what role ethics might serve. To date, the ethical analysis of the themes of this volume has been limited. This book remedies this situation by bringing together contributors from a broad range of backgrounds to address a highly important ethical issue confronting humanity during the 21st century.

Author : Dwight McNeill
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0133407330
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analytics in Healthcare and the Life Sciences written by Dwight McNeill and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make healthcare analytics work: leverage its powerful opportunities for improving outcomes, cost, and efficiency.This book gives you thepractical frameworks, strategies, tactics, and case studies you need to go beyond talk to action. The contributing healthcare analytics innovators survey the field's current state, present start-to-finish guidance for planning and implementation, and help decision-makers prepare for tomorrow's advances. They present in-depth case studies revealing how leading organizations have organized and executed analytic strategies that work, and fully cover the primary applications of analytics in all three sectors of the healthcare ecosystem: Provider, Payer, and Life Sciences. Co-published with the International Institute for Analytics (IIA), this book features the combined expertise of IIA's team of leading health analytics practitioners and researchers. Each chapter is written by a member of the IIA faculty, and bridges the latest research findings with proven best practices. This book will be valuable to professionals and decision-makers throughout the healthcare ecosystem, including provider organization clinicians and managers; life sciences researchers and practitioners; and informaticists, actuaries, and managers at payer organizations. It will also be valuable in diverse analytics, operations, and IT courses in business, engineering, and healthcare certificate programs.

Author : Herman J Ader
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761958835
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Methodology in the Social, Behavioural and Life Sciences written by Herman J Ader and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-12-07 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ideal text for advanced courses in research methods and experimental design. It argues that the methodology of quantitative research is a unified discipline with basic notions, procedures and ways of reasoning which can be applied across the social, behavioural and life sciences. Key designs, models and methods in research are covered by leading contributors in their field who seek to explain the fundamentals of the research process to enable the student to understand the broader implications and unifying themes.

Author : Ruth Ellen Bulger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Dimensions of the Biological Sciences written by Ruth Ellen Bulger and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematically organised anthology on responsible conduct in scientific research aimed at students and practising researchers in the biological sciences. It has been designed in response to the increasing concern to teach graduate students about ethical issues in the biological sciences. The book contains classic essays and other published material and is carefully structured to explore a range of subjects: the qualifications for authorship; plagiarism; the use of human beings and animals in research; the norms of ethical conduct in science; scientific honesty and its relationship to gullibility and self-deception; ethical issues in laboratory work; the relation between science and society; the ethics of teaching and learning. The volume also provides insights into issues often not formally considered in graduate science education such as methods of scientific investigation, scientific paradigms and the creative process.

Author : Oliviero Carugo
Publisher : Humana
ISBN 13 : 9781493956883
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Data Mining Techniques for the Life Sciences written by Oliviero Carugo and published by Humana. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most life science researchers will agree that biology is not a truly theoretical branch of science. The hype around computational biology and bioinformatics beginning in the nineties of the 20th century was to be short lived (1, 2). When almost no value of practical importance such as the optimal dose of a drug or the three-dimensional structure of an orphan protein can be computed from fundamental principles, it is still more straightforward to determine them experimentally. Thus, experiments and observationsdogeneratetheoverwhelmingpartofinsightsintobiologyandmedicine. The extrapolation depth and the prediction power of the theoretical argument in life sciences still have a long way to go. Yet, two trends have qualitatively changed the way how biological research is done today. The number of researchers has dramatically grown and they, armed with the same protocols, have produced lots of similarly structured data. Finally, high-throu- put technologies such as DNA sequencing or array-based expression profiling have been around for just a decade. Nevertheless, with their high level of uniform data generation, they reach the threshold of totally describing a living organism at the biomolecular level for the first time in human history. Whereas getting exact data about living systems and the sophistication of experimental procedures have primarily absorbed the minds of researchers previously, the weight increasingly shifts to the problem of interpreting accumulated data in terms of biological function and bio- lecular mechanisms.

Author : Wim J. van der Steen
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791416167
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Philosophy for the Life Sciences written by Wim J. van der Steen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates philosophy of biology and philosophy of medicine with the purpose of making philosophy practical for students and scientists. It contains many exercises and examples from live science. Much attention is given to the translation of scientific reasoning into the language of philosophy. The author shows that philosophical models can be used to evaluate science, if the limitations of the models are recognized so they can be applied in the proper context. On the other hand, some philosophical views of science need to be corrected by science. The book puts philosophy and science in a broader perspective. It integrates practical philosophy and ethics in applications to live science and uncovers limitations of current ethical theory.