Expanding Horizons in Bioethics
. Ed(S): Galston, Arthur W.; Peppard, Christiana Z. (Yale University)
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hardcover. Includes fourteen essays that ask questions about human nature, genetic technologies, reproductive rights, human subjects research, and environmental issues. This volume is suitable for students and teachers of bioethics and related topics, as well as for professionals working in these disciplines. Editor(s): Galston, Arthur W.; Peppard, Christiana Z. (Yale University). Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 571.
Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Each speaker in the Bioethics & Public Policy Seminar Series was invited because of her or his expertise in a given area of bioethics. Each of the more successful participants was invited to contribute a manuscript for publication. The essays are bound together by the application of an ethical analysis to scientific questions, and by consideration of policy implications. At its inception, bioethics was virtually synonymous with medical ethics. As the field grew and attracted ... Read more
Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Each speaker in the Bioethics & Public Policy Seminar Series was invited because of her or his expertise in a given area of bioethics. Each of the more successful participants was invited to contribute a manuscript for publication. The essays are bound together by the application of an ethical analysis to scientific questions, and by consideration of policy implications. At its inception, bioethics was virtually synonymous with medical ethics. As the field grew and attracted ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402030611
SKU
V9781402030611
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99-15
Reviews for Expanding Horizons in Bioethics
From a pre-publication review: "The collection of essays makes an original contribution through the generally very high standard of scholarship of the papers, and through the engagement by those authors with very contemporary issues in bioethics… It is rare that so many highly original views are collected in one volume."