Pricing Life

Peter A Ubel

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A rational look at health care rationing, from ethical, economic, psychological, and clinical perspectives. Although managed health care is a hot topi... Lees meer

Why Have Children?

Christine Overall

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified--and if so, how. In contemporary Western society, people a... Lees meer

The Ethics of Protocells

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Experts explore the potential benefits, risks, and moral aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. ... Lees meer

Thieves of Virtue

Tom Koch

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An argument against the "lifeboat ethic" of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. Bioe... Lees meer

Pragmatic Bioethics

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies th... Lees meer

Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care

Holly Fernandez Lynch

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse to provide certain services for reasons of consc... Lees meer

Bioethics

• Paperback | Basic Bioethics
• Contemporary bioethicists and scholars of ancient philosophy explore the import of classical ethics on such pressing bioethical concerns. Lees meer

The Myth of the Moral Brain

Harris Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it. Throughout history, humanity has been seen a... Lees meer

Ebola's Message

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak. The 2013-2015 outbreak of the Ebola... Lees meer

Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics

Timothy F Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• This textbook for instruction in biomedical research ethics can also serve as a valuable reference for professionals in the field of bioethics. The 14... Lees meer

In the Wake of Terror

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Timely and provocative essays on bioethical questions brought to the forefront by the bioterrorist threat. The war on terrorism and the threat of chem... Lees meer

DNA and the Criminal Justice System

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• Is DNA technology the ultimate diviner of guilt or the ultimate threat to civil liberties? Over the past decade, DNA has been used to exonerate hundre... Lees meer

The Censor's Hand

Carl E Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An argument that the system of boards that license human-subject research is so fundamentally misconceived that it inevitably does more harm than good... Lees meer

The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom

Eric Racine

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• From a leading ethicist, a workable and inspiring model of ethics, showing not only why ethics matters but also how it can be used to improve human we... Lees meer

Bioethics

• Hardcover | Basic Bioethics
• Contemporary bioethicists and scholars of ancient philosophy explore the import of classical ethics on pressing bioethical concerns. Lees meer

Looking Within

Deborah (Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology)

• Paperback | Basic Bioethics
• An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individu... Lees meer

Sex and the Planet

Margaret Pabst Battin

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• What if human reproduction was always elective? A prominent bioethicist speculates about the possibilities--and the likely consequences. What would th... Lees meer

The Structure of Moral Revolutions

Robert Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the... Lees meer

Thieves of Virtue

Tom Koch

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An argument against the "lifeboat ethic" of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. Bioe... Lees meer

The Ethics of Protocells

Bedau Mark

• Paperback | Basic Bioethics
• Experts explore the potential benefits, risks, and moral aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. Lees meer

Re-Reasoning Ethics

Barry Hoffmaster, Cliff Hooker

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated ... Lees meer

Looking Within

Deborah Blizzard

• Hardcover | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• In Looking Within, Deborah Blizzard examines the high-risk in utero surgery known as fetoscopy, considering it as both cutting-edge medical technology... Lees meer

Good Ethics and Bad Choices

Jennifer S Blumenthal-Barby

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• An analysis of how findings in behavioral economics challenge fundamental assumptions of medical ethics, integrating the latest research in both field... Lees meer

Synthetic Biology and Morality

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Bioethics
• A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse. Synthetic biology, which aims to design ... Lees meer