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What Is Life and How Might It Be Sustained?

Author : Jim Lynch
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000618560
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book What Is Life and How Might It Be Sustained? written by Jim Lynch and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic? This book is for anybody with interest in protecting life on the planet. Studies on the origin of life and scientific contributions to safeguarding the planet are examined in light of current thinking on climate change. A major focus is the spread of microbes, put in the context of environmental assessment and management, including descriptions of microbiomes and a consideration of the risks of genetic modifications. Professor Lynch shows how failure to control disease can lead to the collapse of any biotic population. To avoid this, the ethics of management of disease by biological control and by vaccination are discussed, at the practical level and in a moral theological context.

Sustaining Life

Author : Eric Chivian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Life written by Eric Chivian and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive--and sobering--view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on on the earth's disappearaing biodiversity. With a foreword by E.O. Wilson and a prologue by Kofi Annan, and more than 200 poignant color illustrations, Sustaining Life contributes essential perspective to the debate over how humans affect biodiversity and a compelling demonstration of the human health costs.

Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly.

Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428922814
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Protocols for Elective Use of Life-Sustaining Treatments

Author : Steven H. Miles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662395223
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Protocols for Elective Use of Life-Sustaining Treatments written by Steven H. Miles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sustainable Hedonism

Author : Orsolya Lelkes
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529217989
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Hedonism written by Orsolya Lelkes and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on modern science and ancient Greek philosophy, this book calls on us to explore our collective and personal convictions about success and good life. It challenges the mainstream worldview, rooted in economics, that equates happiness with pleasure, and encourages greed, materialism, egoism and disconnection.

Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life

Author : Karen Lykke Syse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317747801
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life written by Karen Lykke Syse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates? These and other simultaneous harms and threats demand creative responses at several levels of consideration and action. Written by an international team of contributors, this book examines in-depth the relationship between sustainability and the good life. Drawing on wealth of theories, from social practice theory to architecture and design theory, and disciplines, such as anthropology and environmental philosophy, this volume promotes participatory action-research based approaches to encourage sustainability and wellbeing at local levels. It covers topical issues such the politics of prosperity, globalization, and indigenous notions of "the good life" and happiness". Finally it places a strong emphasis on food at the heart of the sustainability and good life debate, for instance binding the global south to the north through import and exports, or linking everyday lives to ideals within the dream of the good life, with cookbooks and shows. This interdisciplinary book provides invaluable insights for researchers and postgraduate students interested in the contribution of the environmental humanities to the sustainability debate.

Deciding to Forego Life-sustaining Treatment

Author : United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Deciding to Forego Life-sustaining Treatment written by United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: A comprehensive report by the US President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research addresses some of the most important and troubling ethical and legal questions in modern medicine for consideration by health care professionals, lawyers, and relatives of patients regarding the sensitive topic of voluntary cessation of life-sustaining therapy for the seriously ill. It was concluded that the cases that involve true ethical difficulties are much fewer than commonly believed and that the perception of difficulties primarily occurs because of misunderstandings about the dictates of law and ethics. It also is concluded that, while competent informed patients have the authority to decline or accept health care, others must act on the behalf of incompetent patients. The report urges that health care institutions develop and use internal review methods that permit exploration of all relevant issues. The 7 report chapters are grouped around 2 themes: the various aspects of making treatment decisions; and patient groups raising special concerns (e.g.: permanently-unconscious patients; seriously-ill newborns. (wz).

Sustaining Employability Through Work-life Learning

Author : Stephen Billett
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819939593
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Employability Through Work-life Learning written by Stephen Billett and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to advance understandings of and approaches to supporting and sustaining working age adults’ learning across lengthening working lives and inevitable transitions they encounter and are required to negotiate. It is founded on the processes and findings of a three-phase practical inquiry into worklife learning and its implications for workplace and educations’ practice conducted in Australia over a three-year period commencing in 2019. Diverse perspectives and orientations were utilised in approaches to data analysis and renderings from the data, thereby opening up the analysis of these complex phenomena to different lines of interrogation, questions and analytical approaches. It elaborates more fully understandings about the processes of adults’ learning and development across their lifespan of adulthood referred to as working life, and what factors and contributions supported that learning. This book also attempts to reconcile a coherent view about development across the work lifespan, and how that can be supported by education provisions, workplaces, communities, and by the adults themselves.

Institutional Protocols for Decisions about Life-sustaining Treatments

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Protocols for Decisions about Life-sustaining Treatments written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Institutional protocols for decisions about life-sustaining treatments : special report.

Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428922563
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Institutional protocols for decisions about life-sustaining treatments : special report. written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Casebook on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying

Author : Cynthia B. Cohen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113627
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Casebook on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying written by Cynthia B. Cohen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988-06-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The cases are presented in a concise and interesting manner... highlights the emerging consciousness of the importance of the contractual arrangement between physician and patient... " -- Journal of the American Medical Association "The cases presented are interesting ones, and the commentaries are uniformly lucid.... Highly recommended... " -- Religious Studies Review "Cohen contributes a well-selected collection of cases and commentaries which are presented in a crisp style... it is likely to have a real impact." -- Ethics Twenty-six reports based on actual cases with expert commentary that illuminate the ethical, medical, legal, and psychological contours of dilemmas surrounding termination of treatment decisions. Cases involve patients, families, physicians, nurses, lawyers, and health care administrators. A companion volume to the Hastings Center's Guidelines. See Guidelines for ad quotes when advertising both books.

Engineering Sustainable Life on Earth

Author : John F. Coplin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000437493
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Engineering Sustainable Life on Earth written by John F. Coplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate scientists have clarified the main causes of climate change, and the tight timescale within which humans must change behaviour, and implement effective solutions, wherever they are needed across the world. This book uncovers many of the powerful actions and uses them effectively to achieve sustainable human life, of improved quality, in a way that is affordable out of earned income for all humans, wherever they live. The ultimate solution to climate change lies not just in doing and consuming less but does instead entirely revolve around our ability to "out innovate" the problem. John F. Coplin, CBE, FREng, FCGI, has had a long and distinguished career in engineering and has operated and advised at all levels from heads of state, company chairs, engineering directors, government advisory boards, and on the shop floor. He is perfectly placed to take a wide-ranging approach, applying modern design and innovative engineering at a systemic level in order to provide novel approaches that will have far-reaching impact on reversing humankind’s impact on this planet. His projections and solutions are based on facts, reasonable calculations, and science learnt from nature. Unafraid to challenge current thinking, John looks at solutions across multiple sectors, including aviation, cars and domestic local transport, clean and renewable energy, food and agriculture, and housing and communities, and describes the particular potential of hydrogen as fuel. The book is written in a language for all. It is small enough to be used is a practical guide to where some of the most useful improvements are to be found and as a way to start important conversations.

The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life

Author : Nancy Berlinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019997456X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life written by Nancy Berlinger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Guidelines on the termination of life-sustaining treatment and the care of the dying / by the Hastings Center. c1987.

Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State

Author : G. Gigli
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586034931
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State written by G. Gigli and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miracles of modern medicine have created scenarios in which patients remain dependent on life-sustaining treatments for years. Possibly, one of the most dramatic examples of such a clinical scenario is the vegetative state (VS), a clinical condition that occurs when an individual enters a neurological state marked by periods of wakefulness and arousal but without associated demonstrable awareness/consciousness. There is extensive debate as to whether assisted nutrition and hydration (ANH) should be withdrawn from patients in VS, permanent or otherwise. This book will provide cutting edge information to many scientists and clinicians interested in this clinical topic. It could also be a source of anthropological, philosophical and ethical reflection. The many dilemmas raised by the medical, religious, ethical and societal response to persons in VS go well beyond the clinical condition itself and have profound implications for the fundamental values in our global society.It is for this reason that the authors thought it was important to also provide a vehicle, not only for scientific and bioethical reflections, but also for the religious views and tenants of Judeo-Christian thought on the controversial topic of VS and, inherent in that conversation, the controversy of withdrawal and withholding of care.

Sustaining Life

Author : Theodore Powers
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296850
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Life written by Theodore Powers and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic account of the South African AIDS movement and activists From the historical roots of AIDS activism in the struggle for African liberation to the everyday work of community education in Khayelitsha, Sustaining Life tells the story of how the rights-based South African AIDS movement successfully transformed public health institutions, enabled access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and sustained the lives of people living with the disease. Typical accounts of the South African epidemic have focused on the political conflict surrounding it, Theodore Powers observes, but have yet to examine the process by which the national HIV/AIDS treatment program achieved near-universal access. In Sustaining Life, Powers demonstrates the ways in which non-state actors, from caregivers to activists, worked within the state to transform policy and state-based institutions in order to improve health-based outcomes. He shows how advocates in the South African AIDS movement channeled the everyday experiences of poor and working-class people living with HIV/AIDS into tangible policy changes at varying institutional levels, revealing the primacy of local action for expanding treatment access. In his analysis of the transformation of the state health system, Powers addresses three key questions: How were the activists of the movement able to overcome an AIDS-dissident faction that was backed by government power? How were state health institutions and HIV/AIDS policy transformed to increase public sector access to treatment? Finally, how should the South African campaign for treatment access inform academic debates on social movements, transnationalism, and the state? Based on extended participant observation and in-depth interviews with members of the South African AIDS movement, Sustaining Life traces how the political principles of the anti-apartheid movement were leveraged to build a broad coalition that changed national HIV/AIDS policy norms and highlights how changes in state-society relations can be produced by local activism.

Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses

Author : Shozo Takata
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1846289351
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses written by Shozo Takata and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life cycle engineering explores technologies for shifting industry from mass production and consumption paradigms to closed-loop manufacturing paradigms, in which required functions are provided with the minimum amount of production. This subject is discussed from various aspects: life cycle design, design for environment, reduce-reuse-recycle, life cycle assessment, and sustainable business models. This book collects papers from the 14th International CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference, the longest-running annual meeting in the field.

Sustainable Development and Sustainable Life Styles

Author : K. V. Sundaram
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788172111380
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Development and Sustainable Life Styles written by K. V. Sundaram and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the current status of India's development in terms of environmental health & human development. The underlying theme is how to achieve sustainable development in the present millennium. The book not only provides a comprehensive analysis of our environmental problems, but also many concrete suggestions for practical and innovative solutions. It contributes to development that is economically desirable, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable.