Screen LibraryBioethics：a philosophical introduction
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| Published: |
Polity Press Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub.,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK Malden, MA |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | vi, 232 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0745626173 (hbk.) 0745626181 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | R |
| CLC: | R-052 |
| Call Number: | R-052/H737 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-217) and index. Pt. 1: Moral status -- Stem cell therapy -- Xenotransplantation -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 2: Life, death, and killing -- The value of life -- What is death? -- Killing versus letting die -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 3: Personal identity -- Prenatal genetic intervention -- Advance directives -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 4: The normativity of the 'natural' -- Managing reproduction -- Genetic enhancement -- Human cloning -- Concluding remarks: Deontic constraints on biomedicine. |