Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments books

983 books were found.

Baby-Making: What the new reproductive treatments mean for families and society

Baby-Making: What the new reproductive treatments mean...

Author: Bart Fauser (University Medical Center, Utrecht) ,  Paul Devroey (The Free University of Brussels)
ISBN: 9780199597314
Format: Hardback
$46.95

With the availability of contraception and fertility treatments now, the choices offered to couples in the 21st...  Read More >>

Biotech Innovations and Fundamental Rights

Biotech Innovations and Fundamental Rights

Author: Roberto Bin ,  Sara Lorenzon
ISBN: 9788847020313
Format: Hardback
$366.96

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Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future

Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present...

Author: S. Fuller
ISBN: 9780230233430
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future

Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present...

Author: S. Fuller
ISBN: 9780230233423
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Biomedical Enhancement

Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Biomedical...

Author: Allen Buchanan (, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780199797875
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human? Should...  Read More >>

Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law

Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law

Author: Charles Foster (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781849461771
Format: Paperback
$99.99

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What is Sustainable Technology?: Perceptions, Paradoxes and Possibilities

What is Sustainable Technology?: Perceptions, Paradoxes...

Author: Karel Mulder ,  Didac Ferrer
ISBN: 9781906093501
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Technology has played an significant role in creating sustainability problems that we now face; but it will also...  Read More >>

What Are Stem Cells?: Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics

What Are Stem Cells?: Definitions at the Intersection...

Author: John Lynch
ISBN: 9780817317485
Format: Hardback
$99.00

Identifies the moral stalemate between the rights of the embryo and the rights of the patient and uses it as the...  Read More >>

GM

GM

Author: Lisa Firth ,  Carolyn Kirby
ISBN: 9781861686008
Format: Paperback
$36.30

Genetically modified crops have been put forward as a solution to world hunger, as well as an answer to providing...  Read More >>

Imperfect Oracle: The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science

Imperfect Oracle: The Epistemic and Moral Authority...

Author: Theodore L. Brown (University of Illinois, Emeritus)
ISBN: 9780271035369
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Explores the relationships between science and other societal sectors, notably law, religion, government and public...  Read More >>

The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments

The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments

Author: Andrew Knight
ISBN: 9781137289681
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments

The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments

Author: Andrew Knight
ISBN: 9780230243927
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Ethics in Science and Engineering

Ethics in Science and Engineering

Author: James G. Speight (CD-WINC, Laramie, Wyoming) ,  Russell Foote
ISBN: 9780470626023
Format: Hardback
$197.95

For engineering and scientific endeavors to progress there must be generally accepted ethical guidelines in place...  Read More >>

Biotechnology and Cloning

Biotechnology and Cloning

Author: Lisa Firth
ISBN: 9781861685872
Format: Paperback
$20.57

Recent advances in science have provoked debate about where cloning will take us. This book considers the social...  Read More >>

Genetic Modification

Genetic Modification

Author: Lisa Firth
ISBN: 9781861685841
Format: Paperback
$20.57

For some time it seemed as though the GM debate in the UK had been quashed completely in the face of unequivocal...  Read More >>

Enhancing Human Capacities

Enhancing Human Capacities

Author: Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Ruud ter Meulen (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781405195812
Format: Hardback
$180.95

This stimulating volume is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It...  Read More >>

The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve...

Author: Henry Petroski
ISBN: 9780307473509
Format: Paperback
$42.24

"From the acclaimed author of ""To Engineer Is Human"" comes an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science...  Read More >>

Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market

Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy...

Author: France Winddance Twine
ISBN: 9780415892025
Format: Paperback
$26.27

"A quiet revolution has been taking place during the past three decades. The way that children enter families has...  Read More >>

Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement

Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement...

Author: Allen E. Buchanan (Duke University)
ISBN: 9780199587810
Format: Hardback
$101.95

Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker,...  Read More >>

4E's: Ethics, Engineering, Economics and the Environment

4E's: Ethics, Engineering, Economics and the Environment...

Author: John St. James Stewart Buckeridge (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia) ,  Stewart Buckeridge
ISBN: 9781862878150
Format: Paperback
$34.95

This new edition is updated for the globally-focused engineer and scientist; it includes case studies from both...  Read More >>

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth...

Author: A. Gillette
ISBN: 9780230108455
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Cengage Advantage Books: Bioethics in a Cultural Context: Philosophy, Religion, History, Politics

Cengage Advantage Books: Bioethics in a Cultural Context:...

Author: Vincent Barry (Bakersfield College, Emeritus)
ISBN: 9780495814085
Format: Paperback
$145.07

Presents a philosophical approach to bioethics. Rather than simply setting up debates about issues, this book helps...  Read More >>

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