Heading Towards Humans Again: Aspects of Bioethics in the New Age of Science [Hardcover]

Bioethics has become an important part of everyday dynamics, encompassing both clinical and research ethics. This edited collection aims to challenge some critical cornerstones of today's contemporary bioethical concerns and issues. The individual chapters were prepared by esteemed scholars with international background in their specialties. Nowadays technological revolution is reaching a whole new level, continuously challenging us to define what is human. Keeping this in mind, the authors provided comprehensive and thoughtful views on different bioethical issues, including cultural and social influences on contemporary bioethics, posthumanism and transhumanism, death, the critical importance of informed consent, prenatal genetic testing, gene and cell therapy, mandatory vaccinations, cannabis use, antidoping concerns, treatment of rare diseases and pain management, and finally educational and legislative lines of reasoning.Introduction, Miroslav Radenkovic CHAPTER 1 Attila Dobos, Neuroanthropological Turn in Bioethics? Insights from Interculturality CHAPTER 2 Alexander Kremer, Transhumanism or Pragmatism? CHAPTER 3 Oana Iftime, Stefana-Maria Petrut, The Danger of False Promises and Hopes in the New Age of Science: The Case of Gene and Cell Therapy CHAPTER 4 Miroslav Radenkovic, Informed Consent. The Current Standing CHAPTER 5 Raluca Dumache, Alexandra Enache, Informed Consent and Medical Decision Making: Ethical Challenges CHAPTER 6 Branislava Medic Brkic, Miroslav Radenkovic, Katarina Savic Vujovic, Nevena Divac, Sonja Vuckovic, Radan Stojanovic, Dragana Srebro, Milo Basailovic, Milica Prostran, Pharmacotherapy of Rare Diseases in Serbia: Bioethical Challenges and How to Overcome Them CHAPTER 7 Katarina Savic Vujovic, Miroslav Radenkovic, Branislava Medic, Sladana Mihajlovic, Sonja Vuckovic, Nevena Divac, Radan Stojanovic, Dragana Srebro, Milo Basailovic, Milica Prostran, lC