Bio-ethics

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...

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H. Vanderburg reminds us that we have relied on discipline-based approaches for human knowing, doing, and organizing f...

Currently, the ethics infrastructure from medical and scientific training to the scrutiny of ethics committees focuses on trying to reform inform...

Reproductive science continues to revolutionise reproduction and propel us further into uncharted territories. The revolution signalled by the birt...

Although the 'Israeli case' of bioethics has been well documented, this book offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics that is a milestone ...

This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animal...

The commodification of scienceoften identified with commercialization, or the selling of expertise and research results and the capitalization of k...

Human beings seek to transcend limits. This is part of our potential greatness, since it is how we can realize what is best in our humanity. Howeve...

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual ...

Is it morally or politically acceptable to have wide differences in the quality of health care when one crosses a state line? Federalism in the Uni...