Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments books

983 books were found.

They Called Me Mad: Genius, Madness, and the Scientists Who Pushed the Outer Limits of Knowledge

They Called Me Mad: Genius, Madness, and the Scientists...

Author: John Monahan
ISBN: 9780425236963
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Discover the true genius behind history's greatest ""madmen."" Monahan recounts the amazing stories of such historical...  Read More >>

Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties

Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations,...

Author: Sheldon Krimsky ,  Tania Simoncelli
ISBN: 9780231145206
Format: Hardback
$165.95

National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders....  Read More >>

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet...

Author: Michael Specter
ISBN: 9780143118312
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Specter eloquently shows how, in a world where protesters march against childhood vaccines and Africans starve to...  Read More >>

Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate

Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion,...

Author: John H. Evans
ISBN: 9780226222653
Format: Hardback
$110.95

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Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies

Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and...

Author: Richard Twine
ISBN: 9781844078301
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Global food security: ethical and legal challenges

Global food security: ethical and legal challenges

Author: Carlos M. Romeo Casabona ,  Leire Escajedo San Epifanio
ISBN: 9789086861545
Format: Paperback
$403.92

"""The papers collected in this volume and presented at EurSafe's 9th Congress ... EurSafe 2010 was organized by...  Read More >>

The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects

The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky...

Author: Roberto Abadie
ISBN: 9780822348238
Format: Paperback
$60.59

An ethnography focused on professional guinea pigs, healthy, paid research subjects who earn their living by participating...  Read More >>

The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects

The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky...

Author: Roberto Abadie ,  Roberto Abadie
ISBN: 9780822348146
Format: Hardback
$211.07

An ethnography focused on professional guinea pigs, healthy, paid research subjects who earn their living by participating...  Read More >>

The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics

The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics

Author: David Harriman ,  Leonard Peikoff
ISBN: 9780451230058
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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Human Capacities and Moral Status

Human Capacities and Moral Status

Author: Russell DiSilvestro
ISBN: 9789048185368
Format: Hardback
$366.96

Many debates about the moral status of things—for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or...  Read More >>

The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories

The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories...

Author: Daniel Imhoff
ISBN: 9780970950055
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A collection of essays on one of the most important environmental and ethical issues: the rise of Concentrated Animal...  Read More >>

A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council

A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and...

Author: Adam Briggle
ISBN: 9780268022211
Format: Paperback
$79.20

In this book Adam Briggle provides a sympathetic account of the President’s Council on Bioethics led by Dr. Leon...  Read More >>

My Brain Made Me Do It: The Rise of Neuroscience and the Threat to Moral Responsibility

My Brain Made Me Do It: The Rise of Neuroscience and...

Author: Eliezer J. Sternberg
ISBN: 9781616141653
Format: Paperback
$42.99

As scientists continue to explore how the brain works, using ever more sophisticated technology, it seems likely...  Read More >>

Biotechnology and Public Engagement in Europe

Biotechnology and Public Engagement in Europe

Author: J. Hansen
ISBN: 9780230242128
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science

On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines...

Author: David Goodstein
ISBN: 9780691139661
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Fraud in science is not as easy to identify as one might think. This title looks at actual cases in which fraud...  Read More >>

Choosing Tomorrow's Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction

Choosing Tomorrow's Children: The Ethics of Selective...

Author: Stephen Wilkinson (Keele University)
ISBN: 9780199273966
Format: Hardback
$232.00

To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their...  Read More >>

Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds

Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's...

Author: Joel L. Kraemer
ISBN: 9780385512008
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Stem Cells For Dummies

Stem Cells For Dummies

Author: Lawrence S.B. Goldstein ,  Meg Schneider
ISBN: 9780470259283
Format: Paperback
$36.95

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From Blogs to Bombs: The Future of Digital Technologies in Education

From Blogs to Bombs: The Future of Digital Technologies...

Author: Mark Pegrum
ISBN: 9781921401343
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Digital technologies - including computing and mobile technologies - are among the most widely discussed subjects...  Read More >>

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