TY - CHAP AU - Doina-Carmen Manciuc AU - Georgiana Alexandra Lacatusu AU - Cristina Vasilescu AU - Maria Alexandra Largu ED - Thomas F. Heston ED - Sujoy Ray Y1 - 2020-11-20 PY - 2020 T1 - The Psychological Impact on Families of Departed Patients with Infectious Diseases N2 - Bioethics is the application of ethics to the broad field of medicine, including the ethics of patient care, research, and public health. In this book, prominent authors from around the globe discuss the complexities of bioethics as they apply to our current world. Topics range from the philosophical bioethics of the evolution of thinking about marriage from a religious standpoint to the bioethics of radiation protection to value-based medicine and cancer screening for breast cancer. Bioethics in Medicine and Society is wide-ranging, with additional chapters on the ethics of geoengineering, complementary and alternative medicine, and end-of-life ethical dilemmas. Readers with find that the field of bioethics has broad implications throughout society from our most intimate interpersonal relationships to policies being implemented on a global scale. BT - Bioethics in Medicine and Society SP - Ch. 4 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94388 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.94388 SN - 978-1-83881-178-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -