As cutting-edge technologies continue to reshape the landscape of health care, we are faced with profound ethical and legal dilemmas on our journey towards a brighter future. This book invites you to develop your critical thinking skills in relation to a number of themes in bioethics and law, including our duties to care for each other, for nonhuman animals, and for the nonhuman world.

Topics include embryo research, abortion, end of life care, research ethics, cloning, and genetic engineerin...

Western health care is being praised as one of the best in the world. Specialists continue to develop themselves on a constant basis to ensure that this remains to be so. However, diseases have continued to rise over the past several decades. Anxiety disorders, depression, obesity and cardiovascular disease are just a few examples. The number of people who have more than one chronic disease is rising faster than ever. What is causing this worrisome increase?

This book provides an answer to t...