Bio-ethics books

"Child Versus Childmaker investigates a ""person-affecting"" approach to ethical issues that arise in the context...  Read More >>

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Child Versus Childmaker investigates a person-affecting approach to ethical issues that arise in the context of...  Read More >>

The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills’ classic The Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), the chapters...  Read More >>

The first book of its kind, Flesh of My Flesh is a collection of articles by today's most respected scientists,...  Read More >>

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In contemporary ethical discussion widespread concern about the potential risks of genetic engineering is raising...  Read More >>

These new essays offer insightful reflections on the relationship between narratives and ethics.  Read More >>

Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine. What kind of ethical work can stories...  Read More >>

Essays in this volume consider the conceptual links between views on abortion and foetal development, abortion procedures,...  Read More >>

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Argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopianism of medicine. Puts forth an alternative...  Read More >>

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A revolutionary code of ethics to guide childbirth decisions in the brave new world of biotechnology.  Read More >>

As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is being paid to how bioethical issues are treated...  Read More >>

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Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from...  Read More >>

Aimed at a wide readership, including students and interested lay people in animal science, this book brings together...  Read More >>

The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional...  Read More >>

This book explores some of the ethical quandaries entailed by proposed phase III HIV preventive vaccine trials....  Read More >>

The essays in this volume, while exploring bioethical issues bearing on death and dying, the use of scarce resources,...  Read More >>

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Adopting a philosophical approach, this work examines the ethics of capitalism, analyzing the moral theory of a...  Read More >>

`Sanctity of life' and `human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions....  Read More >>

This work challenges the sufficiency of secular bioethics. While acknowledging the importance of procedural considerations...  Read More >>