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Philosophy
Textbooks and Learning Guides

Bioethics: A Coursebook

COMPOST Collective
Daan Kenis
Mayli Mertens
Franlu Vulliermet
Varsha Aravind Paleri
Yanni Ratajczyk
Emma Moormann
Christina Stadlbauer
Bartaku Vandeput
Nele Buyst
Lisanne Meinen
Kristien Hens
Ina Devos
Ilya Gordon Villafuerte

This coursebook offers an expansive exploration of bioethics, an interdisciplinary field examining ethical, social, and legal dilemmas in medicine, life sciences, and beyond. It challenges conventional boundaries, embracing Van Rensselaer Potter’s vision of bioethics as a global, holistic ethics of life—integrating human health, environmental considerations, and transdisciplinary insights.

Health
Philosophy
Theatre

Tragedy and the Witness: Shakespeare and Beyond

Fred Parker

As he dies, Hamlet pleads with Horatio to ‘report me aright … tell my story’. This book deals with the task of bearing witness to anguish, atrocity, and madness, as these are staged in the tragic theatre. Focusing on the relationship between the protagonist and the onlooker or witness, it explores how the tragic figure, often and understandably viewed as alien or culpable or profoundly strange, struggles to be understood. Centred on Shakespeare, its wide-ranging approach also introduces works by (among others) the Greeks, Racine, Ibsen, Pirandello, Kafka, Beckett, and Kane.

Health
Philosophy
Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Science

Color, Healthcare and Bioethics

Henk ten Have

This book explores the profound, yet often overlooked, role of color in healthcare and bioethics, arguing that color is far more than a visual or aesthetic element—it actively shapes human experience, perception, and ethical reasoning.

Health
Philosophy
Politics and Sociology
Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Troubled People, Troubled World: Psychotherapy, Ethics and Society

Michael Briant

Therapists endeavour to be non-judgemental and, indeed, are no more qualified to pass judgement on others than anyone else; do they nevertheless learn anything about ethics from their disciplined listening? The same question was asked after the war about the persecution of the Jews and other minorities, and it’s a very live issue again, faced as we are by movements like ISIS, or Putinism in Russia, that cause great suffering in the name of religious or moral regeneration - a bewildering paradox that David Astor, former editor of The Observer called ‘the scourge’. Can psychotherapy throw any light on it, or contribute any ideas as to how we might contain, if not prevent, the barbarism it sanctions? Can it offer any insights into a different, more inclusive kind of ethics, and if so, can we glean any guidance from it as to how we might further it? These are the questions the author explores, drawing on psychoanalytic thinking on these issues for over a century and illustrated by his work with individuals over four decades.

Education
Health
Politics and Sociology
Psychology and Psychoanalysis

The Struggle You Can’t See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education

Ash Lierman

This book offers a comprehensive review of current research on the higher education experiences of neurodivergent undergraduate students and those with invisible disabilities. Grounded in principles of social justice and equity, this work draws from design thinking, the neurodiversity model, and Universal Design for Learning, to explore the context of higher education in relation to neurodivergent and disabled students.

Health
Information Technology and Computer Science

Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 1 - From Adventure of Ideas to Anarchy of Transition

David Ingram

In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.

Health
Information Technology and Computer Science

Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 2 - From Anarchy of Transition to Programme for Reform

David Ingram

In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.

Health
Other languages
Philosophy

Toevallige ontmoetingen: Bio-ethiek voor een gehavende planeet

Kristien Hens
Christina Stadlbauer
Bart H.M. Vandeput

In dit rigoureuze en noodzakelijke boek brengt Kristien Hens bio-ethiek en filosofie van de biologie bij elkaar, met het argument dat het ethisch noodzakelijk is om in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek een plaatsje vrij te houden voor de filosofen. Hun rol is behalve ethisch ook conceptueel: zij kunnen de kwaliteit en de coherentie van het wetenschappelijk onderzoek verbeteren door erop toe te zien dat specifieke concepten op een consistente en doordachte manier worden gebruik binnen interdisciplinaire projecten. Hens argumenteert dat toeval en onzekerheid een centrale rol spelen in de bio-ethiek, maar dat die in een spanningsrelatie kunnen raken met de pogingen om bepaalde theorieën ingang te doen vinden als wetenschappelijke kennis: bij het beschrijven van organismen en praktijken creëren we op een bepaalde manier de wereld. Hens stelt dat dit noodzakelijk een ethische activiteit betreft.

Health

Reshaping Food Systems to improve Nutrition and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh
Alexa Meyer

This detailed and comprehensive study examines nutrition and health in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region, presenting the six game-changing food systems actions proposed by the WHO and the progress of their implementation in the region.

Health
Philosophy

Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet

Kristien Hens
Christina Stadlbauer
Bart H.M. Vandeput

In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that it is ethically necessary for scientific research to include a place for the philosopher. As well as ethical, their role is conceptual: they can improve the quality and coherence of scientific research by ensuring that particular concepts are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. Hens argues that chance and uncertainty play a central part in bioethics, but that these qualities can be in tension with the attempt to establish a given theory as scientific knowledge: in describing organisms and practices, in a sense we create the world. Hens contends that this is necessarily an ethical activity.

Health

A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy: Clinical Practice, Therapeutic Principles, Production, Distribution, and Ethics

Frank Stadler

Since the revival of maggot therapy in Western wound care approximately thirty years ago, there has been no comprehensive synthesis of what is known about its clinical practice, supply chain management, and social dimensions. This edited volume fills the information vacuum and, importantly, makes the current state of knowledge freely accessible. It is the first to provide sound, evidence-based information and guidance covering the entire supply chain from production to treatment.

Health
Philosophy
Politics and Sociology

Towards an Ethics of Autism: A Philosophical Exploration

Kristien Hens

What does it mean to say that someone is autistic? Dynamics of Autism is an exploration of this question and many more.

Biography
European Studies
European Studies: English and Irish Studies
Health
Women and Gender Studies

Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women’s Health in the Early Twentieth Century

Lucy Pollard

This book vividly presents the story of Margery Spring Rice, an instrumental figure in the movements of women’s health and family planning in the first half of the twentieth century. Margery Spring Rice, née Garrett, was born into a family of formidable female trailblazers – niece of physician and suffragist Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and of Millicent Fawcett, a leading suffragist and campaigner for equal rights for women. Margery Spring Rice continued this legacy with her co-founding of the North Kensington birth control clinic in 1924, three years after Marie Stopes founded the first clinic in Britain.

Health

Non-communicable Disease Prevention: Best Buys, Wasted Buys and Contestable Buys

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai
Rachel A. Archer
Yot Teerawattananon
Anthony J. Culyer

Created by an international consortium of experts, this informative and accessible book provides practical guidelines, key learning points, and dynamic, real-world case studies to aid NCD program managers, policy officers and decision-makers in low- and middle-income countries, so that they can assess interventions for the prevention and control of NCDs.

Health
Politics and Sociology

Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare: Eight Stories from Switzerland

Marianne Jossen

This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from healthcare in a Swiss region. Marianne Jossen explores the ways migrants try to obtain healthcare on their own, with the help of NGOs or via insurance, and how they cope if they fail, whether by using risky strategies to access healthcare or leaving serious health issues untreated. Jossen shows that even for those who succeed, inclusion remains partial and fraught with risks.

Health
Law
Law: Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World

Monirul Azam

Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical patents against the urgent need for accessible and affordable medicines. In this timely and necessary book, Monirul Azam examines the attempts of several developing countries to walk this fine line.

Anthropology
Economics
Health
Psychology and Psychoanalysis

The Economics of Cultural Loss: Harm and Resilience in North American Indigenous Communities

Mukesh Eswaran

FORTHCOMING

Why do North American Indigenous Peoples face such grave circumstances in health, poverty, and mortality—including alarmingly high rates of suicide, alcoholism, and drug abuse? In this groundbreaking book, Mukesh Eswaran confronts these urgent questions through the lens of economics, focusing on a deeply underexplored aspect: the erosion of Indigenous culture. While empirical studies have shed some light on Indigenous struggles, Eswaran argues that mainstream economic theory fails to grasp the unique realities of Indigenous communities. His work introduces innovative models that incorporate cultural and communal values—particularly the sacredness of land and the importance of extended family and communal life—as foundational components of Indigenous well-being.