Bioethical issues remain front-page news, with debate continuing to rage over issues including genetic modification, animal cloning, and 'designer babies'. With public opinion often driven by media speculation, how can we ensure that informed decisions regarding key bioethical issues are made in
a reasoned, objective way?
Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences offers a balanced, objective introduction to the field of bioethics, ideal for any biosciences student who is new to the subject. With a focus on developing the students' power of reasoning and judgement, the book
presents different perspectives to common themes in an impartial way, fostering debate and discussion.
The opening section, 'The Ethical Groundwork', introduces students to the nature of bioethics and ethical theory. The book goes on to lead students through a broad range of bioethical
issues relating to people, animals, and food, before concluding with an overview of bioethics in practice.
The current generation of students will become the next generation of decision makers. Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences is the perfect introduction to a field with
which every biosciences student should be familiar.
Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre features:
For registered adopters of the book:
- Figures from the book in electronic format, ready to download
For students:
- A web link library and
hyperlinked reference list, giving ready access to additional information sources;
- Topical updates: extensive summaries of the latest developments in those topics covered in the book, ensuring that the reader can remain up-to-date at all times
1. The theoretical background to bioethics
1. The nature of bioethics
2. Theories of ethics
3. A framework for ethical analysis
2. Bioethics and human futures
4. The biology of poverty
5. Fertility and morality
6. Genomics, eugenics and
integrity
3. Bioethics and animals
7. Human uses of animals
8. Experiments on animals
9. Animals and modern biotechnology
4. Bioethics, plants and the environment
10. The first generation of genetically modified crops
11. Dietary futures
12.
Environmental sustainability
5. Bioethics in practice
13. Risk, precaution and trust
14. Politics and the biosciences
15. Bioethics in the laboratory
Online Resource Center - http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199214303/
Special Professor in Applied Bioethics, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham and Visiting Professor in Bioethics, Department of Policy Studies, University of Lincoln, UK
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