Observing Bioethics - Rilegato

Fox, Renée C; Swazey, Judith P

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0195365550 ISBN 13: 9780195365559

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2008

Riassunto

Based on original primary and extensive secondary source materials, the book views bioethics as a complex phenomenon that is not only related to advances in modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the fundamental values and beliefs and larger moral and existential questions which American society has been collectively grappling in its courts, legislatures, and media. Although they center their analysis on U.S. bioethics, the authors also trace the field's international spread, including case studies of bioethics in France and Pakistan - two of the many societies in which it has developed. While recognizing the intellectual, moral and sociological importance of American bioethics, they are critical of certain of its characteristics, and concerned about their implications-especially the problems of thinking socially, culturally, and internationally that have existed since bioethics' inception; the field's "tenuous interdisciplinarity"; and the extent to which the "culture wars" on the larger American scene have recently penetrated it.

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Recensione

This insightful book adds depth to the literature on the history of bioethics and delivers important and sometimes controversial insights about contemporary bioethics. (Ana Smith Iltis, PhD, Doody's Notes)

Contenuti

• Introduction. The Team of Two: Observing Bioethics
• Part I. Taking Root in the American Landscape
• 1: The Coming of Bioethics
• 2: The Coming of Bioethicists
• 3: Choices on our Conscience: The Inauguration of The Kennedy Institute
• 4: "Hello Dolly": Bioethics in the Media
• 5: Celebrating Bioethics and Bioethicists
• Part II. Society, Culture, and Bioethics
• 6: Thinking Socially and Culturally in Bioethics
• 7: Reminiscences of Observing Participants
• Part III. Migrations
• 8: Bioethics Circles the Globe
• 9: Bioethics in France
• 10: The Development of Bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• Part IV. Taking Stock of Bioethics in the United States
• 11: The Coming of the Culture Wars to American Bioethics
• Afterword. The View from Khayelitsha and La Mancha

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195365550
• ISBN 13: 9780195365559
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia