Introduzione alla bioetica

Author(s): Aramini, Michele
Document type: Book
Year: 2003
Pages: 591
Source: Publishing house: Guiffré Editore
Language(s): Italian

Classification

National background: Italy
Category: EU Training Material for Research Ethics
Subject areas: Animal experimentation; Biotechnology; Environment; Experimentation on human material; Information (data protection, privacy etc.)
Focus: Sub-focus: bioethics
Content: Legal background; Normative reflections
Issues touched: Beneficence, non-maleficence, risk for the subject; Protection of privacy, data protection, biological material; Research on animals
Audience: doctors and teachers; Students of natural sciences
Classification remarks: Consists of 22 chapters; divided into two main parts: 1. Bioethics in general; 2. Problems with bioethics

Estimation

Theoretical quality remarks: The legal background is mentioned in each chapter; chapter 11 deals with laws in Italy and other European countries as well as the position of doctors and ethicists; ethical theories are mentioned as well such as Kants deontology and virtue ethics; at the end of some chapters the point "ethics aspects" is given which may form the starting point for discussions.
Didactical quality: Didactically prepared material
Didactical quality remarks: It is a general overview.
Overall estimation: recommendable
Estimation remarks: The book is a good introduction beginners. There is no special chapter on research ethics but it is mentioned in the context of research topics.