Bio-ethics

In this comprehensive updated introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of e...

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related conceptslife, politics, and artby exploring the implications of Charles Darwins account...

This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction...

Contemporary medicine is Janus-faced. Evidence-based medicine is one face, emphasizing evidence, statistics, and method. Patient-centered care is t...

A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology.Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming incr...

Structured around the five most important schools within contemporary political theory: liberalism, utilitarianism, communitarianism, Marxism and f...

Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals a...

Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been. By law, they must be told about the risks and benefits of proposed tr...

Lochlann Jains debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between w...

Cyberthreats are among the most critical issues facing the world today. Cybersecurity Management draws on case studies to analyze cybercrime at the...

The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics provides a critical overview of the ethics of human subjects research within multiple disciplines and fields...

If our bodies could do more things, would our lives be better? Genome editing is a rapidly developing technology that can modify human genes. It ca...

The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green cri...

An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of ...

This book systematically traces the development, significance, and implications of female reproductive choice. Paramount is the right to safe termi...

Since the 1990s, deliberative democracy has been the focus of increased scholarly attention, as well as the locus of initiatives intended to direct...

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a natural law philosophical perspective. T...

Practicing Bioethics Law provides basic readings in the field of bioethics law, including court cases, statutes, administrative regulations, briefs...

Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics uses a variety of legal and interdisciplinary materials to engage students in the study of the intersection o...

T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) was not only an active protagonist in the religious and scientific upheaval that followed the publication of Darwin's theo...

Questions about the dignity of the human person give rise to many of the most central and hotly disputed topics in bioethics. In A Defense of Digni...

Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a conce...

Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it d...

In this masterful book, Julian Hughes makes a convincing case that many acts in clinical and care practice are ethical matters. Hughes takes us gen...

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications examines human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with contributions...

Attitudes towards science, medicine and the body are all profoundly shaped by peoples worldviews. When discussing issues of bioethics, religion oft...

Exploring the interconnectedness of human health, biodiversity, and bioethics.We all depend on environmental biodiversity for clean air, safe water...

In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and clon...

Most people believe there are degrees of moral status. They believe animals matter morally, but human beings matter significantly more than animals...

This new edition of the Code of Medical Ethics is the culmination of an eight-year project to modernize the Codes ethical guidance for relevance, c...