Bio-ethics

An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective. The rate at wh...

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional em...

This book is open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The making of British bioethics provides the first in-depth study of how philosophers, lawyer...

A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers. This book offers the first comprehe...

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between ...

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for commu...

Pressing ethical issues are at the foreground of newfound knowledge of how the brain works, how the brain fails, and how information about its func...

An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and...

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront...

Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned wit...

This concise version of INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION, International Edition offers the same clear and accurate accounts of complex scientific findin...

Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means, that is...

Neuroethics is a recent field of study with an increasingly widening scope. More than any other, such a discipline could act as a central aggregato...

This report offers a summary of the substantive presentations during an international workshop, Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Bi...