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Author
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic, and legal side of twenty-first-century medicine while giving the reader an informed basis on which to answer personal, practical question such as: should we test and modify our genes? How much is...
Author
Series
Studien zu Wissenschaft und Ethik volume Band 7
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Deutsch
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The ethical issues we face in healthcare, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries-they are global and cross-cultural in scope. Editors Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of an interdisciplinary, international team of experts in bioethics into a comprehensive, innovative and accessible book. It opens with theoretical frameworks that inform a Global Bioethics, followed by three units...
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes of birth and dying insofar as they are mediated by technologies of life and death. With an eye to reproductive technologies, it shows how a deconstructive...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval, stem cell research, justice in healthcare and issues in environmental ethics, including issues surrounding food and agriculture. The book also seeks to go beyond simply describing the issues in order to provide the reader with the methodological and theoretical tools...
19) Double helix
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.