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General Bioethics
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Bioethics: the Basics by Alastair V. CampbellPublication Date: 2013
Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today.
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A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics: biocentric ethics by Lawrence E. JohnsonPublication Date: 2011
Approaches bioethics on the basis of a conception of life and what is needed for the affirmation of its quality in the most encompassing sense. Johnson applies this conception to discussions of controversial issues in bioethics including euthanasia, abortion, cloning and genetic engineering. His emphasis is not on providing definitive solutions to all bioethical issues but on developing an approach to coping with them that can also help us deal with new issues as they emerge.
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A Companion to Bioethics by Helga Kuhse (Editor)Publication Date: 2012
Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, health care, and teaching.
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics by James Fillis (Editor)Publication Date: 2015
Bioethics are mainly practical ethics dealing with issues related to health and physical well-being. It is acknowledged as a significant reference for health care and its methods and practices. Health connected knowledge, such as information technology, is changing speedily. Bioethics should ideally deal with such alterations as well as carry on to address more recognized areas of health care and rising areas of social anxiety such as climate modification and its relation to health.
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Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Tony Hope; Michael DunnISBN: 9780198815600
Publication Date: 2019-02-01
This Very Short Introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine. This new edition explores the ethical reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics, introducing the most important 'tools' of ethical reasoning, and discussing how argument, thought experiments, and intuition can be combined in the consideration of medical ethics.
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The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics by Bonnie Steinbock (Editor)Publication Date: 2009
The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics is an authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics. Thirty-four contributors reflect the interdisciplinarity that is characteristic of bioethics, and its increasingly international character. Thirty topics are covered in original essays written by some of the world's leading figures in the field, as well as by some newer 'up-and-comers'. The essays address both perennial issues, such as the methodology of bioethics, autonomy, justice, death, and moral status, and newer issues, such as biobanking, stem cell research, cloning, pharmacogenomics, and bioterrorism.
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Bioethics in the Age of New Media by Joanna ZylinskaPublication Date: 2009
Bioethical dilemmas--including those over genetic screening, compulsory vaccination, and abortion--have been the subject of ongoing debates in the media, among the public, and in professional and academic communities. But the paramount bioethical issue in an age of digital technology and new media, Joanna Zylinska argues, is the transformation of the very notion of life. In this provocative book, Zylinska examines many of the ethical challenges that technology poses to the allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human.
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The Future of Bioethics by Howard BrodyPublication Date: 2009
In The Future of Bioethics, Howard Brody, a physician and scholar who dates his entry into the field in 1972, sifts through the various issues that bioethics is now addressing--and some that it is largely ignoring--to chart a course for the future. Traditional bioethical concerns such as medical care at the end of life and research on human subjects will continue to demand attention. Brody chooses to focus instead on less obvious issues that will promise to stimulate new ways of thinking.
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Ethical Issues in the 21St Century by Tyler N. PacePublication Date: 2010
Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. This book presents research in the expansive field of bioethics including biomedical ethics in obstetrics, ethical decision making in the health care system, the feasibility of using human oocytes for stem cell research, as well as mandatory circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa to prevent HIV and AIDS and environmental ethics to preserve the world for future generations.
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Worst Case Bioethics: death, disaster, and public health by George J. AnnasPublication Date: 2010
Bioethics, still in its infancy, is routinely called on by the government to provide political cover for controversial public health decisions involving the life and death of Americans. Doomsday or worst-case scenarios are often at the heart of these biopolitical decisions. A central feature of science fiction, these scenarios can impart useful insights.
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Bioethics: the Basics by 
A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics: biocentric ethics by 
A Companion to Bioethics by 
Encyclopedia of Bioethics by 
Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by 
The Oxford Handbook of Health Care Management by 
The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics by 
Bioethics in the Age of New Media by 
Worst Case Bioethics: death, disaster, and public health by