Routledge Annals of Bioethics

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1. Thomistic Principles and Bioethics

   By Jason T. Eberl

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Alongside a revival of interest in Thomism in philosophy, scholars have realised its relevance when addressing certain contemporary issues in bioethics. This book offers a rigorous interpretation of Aquinas's metaphysics and ethical thought, and highlights its significance to questions in bioethics...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Human Dignity in Bioethics

   From Worldviews to the Public Square

   Edited by Stephen Dilley, Nathan J. Palpant

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. The volume falls into three parts, beginning with meta-level perspectives and moving to...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics

   By James Stacey Taylor

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

   By Mary Ann Cutter

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility

   Edited by Nancy M.P. King, Michael J Hyde

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress. The contributors examine moral and policy controversies surrounding biomedical...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
6. Practical Autonomy and Bioethics

   By James Stacey Taylor

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   This is the first volume in which an account of personal autonomy is developed that both captures the contours of this concept as it is used in social philosophy and bioethics, and is theoretically grounded in, and a part of, contemporary autonomy theory. James Stacey Taylor’s account is unique as...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Ethics of Genetic Engineering

   By Roberta M. Berry

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Human genetic engineering may soon be possible. The gathering debate about this prospect already threatens to become mired in irresolvable disagreement. After surveying the scientific and technological developments that have brought us to this pass, The Ethics of Genetic Engineering focuses on the...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
8. Biomedical Research and Beyond

   Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry

   By Christopher O. Tollefsen

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   What is the relationship between scientific research and ethics? Some think that science should be free from ethical and political considerations. Biomedical Research and Beyond argues that ethical guidance is essential for all forms of inquiry, including biomedical and scientific research....

   Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
9. Legal Perspectives in Bioethics

   Edited by Ana S. Iltis, Sandra H. Johnson, Barbara A. Hinze

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Issues in bioethics often turn, at least in part, on the law and regulatory requirements. Consisting of chapters that address particular bioethics topics from the law’s perspective, this fascinating book includes: an introduction to the American legal system papers identifying the principal ways...

   Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Ethics of Abortion

    Women's Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice

    By Christopher Kaczor

    Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

    Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying fetal personhood, including the views of those who defend not only abortion but...

    Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge