Screen LibraryBeyond bioethics : toward a new biopolitics /
"For several decades, the field of bioethics has played a dominant role in shaping the way society thinks about ethical problems related to developments in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphases on, for example, doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and indivi...
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oakland, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"For several decades, the field of bioethics has played a dominant role in shaping the way society thinks about ethical problems related to developments in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphases on, for example, doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and individual autonomy have led the field to not be fully responsive to the challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic enhancement, and DNA forensics. Beyond Bioethics provides a focused overview for students and others grappling with the profound social dilemmas |
| Carrier Form: | xxvii, 518 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520277847 0520277848 9780520277823 0520277821 |
| Index Number: | JA80 |
| CLC: | D0-05 |
| Call Number: | D0-05/B573-2 |
| Contents: | The biopolitical critique of bioethics : historical context -- Bioethics and its discontents -- Emerging biotechnologies, extreme ideologies : the recent past and near future -- Markets, property, and the body -- Patients as consumers in the gene age -- Seeking humanity in human subjects research -- Baby-making in the biotech age -- Selecting traits, selecting children -- Reinventing race in the gene age -- Biopolitics and the future. |