This text provides coverage of the most discussed topics and up-to-date cases in medical ethics. Each topic is enriched with important background, history and context, and supplemented with a discussion of the most pertinent philosophical theories and ethical issues behind it. Anecdotal updates are included at the end of chapters to give readers ...
This rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories ...
This book is designed for the biomedical ethics course as a core introduction to biomedical issues in the context of ethical theory. Each chapter unfolds timely, paradigm case examples--many of which have never before been explored in a bioethics text--and presents these topics amidst discussion of their key ethical issues. This short volume ...
Flesh of My Flesh is a collection of articles by today's most respected scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors about whether we should allow human cloning. It includes historical pieces to provide background for the current debate. Religious, philosophical, and legal points of view are all represented.
Gregory Pence brings together a collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal questions of our time. The volume addresses a broad range of subjects including the meaning of food, moral analyses of vegitarianism and starvation, the safety and environmental risks of ...
This collection of sixteen landmark cases in the recent history of medical ethics can be used on such courses as medical ethics, bioethics, nursing ethics, and ethics and contemporary issues. Offering a unique approach to the study of such issues as euthanasia, abortion, animal rights, in vitro fertilization, and AIDS testing, the book presents ...
For nearly 30 years, whenever Bioethics has been in the headlines, Gregory E. Pence's name has been in the by-line. Pence is one of America's pioneering bioethicists, and has never been afraid to go his own way or stir up a little controversy. "Brave new Bioethics" gathers 35 of Pence's most influential, groundbreaking and personal essays into one ...
As the No.1 topic in bioethics, cloning has made big news since Dolly's announced birth in 1998. In a new book building on his classic, Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?, pioneering bioethicist Gregory E. Pence continues to advocate a reasoned view of cloning. Beginning with his surreal experiences as an expert witness before Congressional and ...
Absolutely everyone must eat. People decide several times a day what to eat and what not to eat, and the personal issue about genetically modified food is whether it is safe to eat - not only in the moment but the long run. "Designer Food" addresses these and other pressing questions surrounding the ethics of genetically modified food. Beginning ...
Discusses Judaism, Jesus's moral teachings, Jesus's divinity, the Islamic and Hindu conceptions of God, death, and the dependence of public morality on religion.
The McGraw-Hill Guide to Philosophy on the Web helps students learn about the Internet and Web in general and in particular about philosophy on the Internet. The goal of this concise guide is to help philosophy students judge the valuable material from the mediocre, to direct them to excellent Internet resources, and to warn them about flimflam. ...
This rich collection provides an in-depth look at major cases that have defined and shaped the field of medical ethics. Popular among teachers and students alike, it contains more detail than most casebooks and enriches each famous (or infamous) case with extensive historical and contextual background. Each case is illuminated by careful ...
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