Selected from the Hastings Center Report mostly from the past 15 years, 45 articles provide a reader for a course in bioethics. They address some major issues such as allocation, rights and responsibilities, reproductive freedom, limiting care,... Zobraziť viac
Steven J. Jensen is associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and specializes in the areas of ethics and medieval philosophy. He is the author of Good and Evil Actions: A Journey through Saint Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press). Zobraziť viac
The bioethical debates between critics and enthusiasts about using technologies to shape our selves are sometimes acrimonious. Candidly drawing on his participation in these debates, Erik Parens offers a habit of thinking about the questions at their... Zobraziť viac
The latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series offers an insight into the evolving state of law and neuroscience scholarship today. Focussing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines, it addresses the key issues informing current... Zobraziť viac
Is it acceptable from an ethical point of view to use stem cells from human embryos for scientific research and clinical therapy? And what are the weaknesses and strengths of various opinions and positions when they are critically evaluated? These are... Zobraziť viac
In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many... Zobraziť viac
New developments in reproductive technology have made headlines since the birth of the world's first in vitro fertilization baby in 1978. But is embryo experimentation ethically acceptable? What is the moral status of the early human embryo? And how... Zobraziť viac
