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The ethical canary : science, society and the human spirit /
Every day we hear news about medical or scientific breakthroughs and the complex ethical issues they raise. Feats that were never before possible, including cloning, genetically modifying food, mapping human chromosomes, and using animal organs for human transplants, have opened up a Pandora's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface to the paperback edition
- Prologue
- 1. Searching for ethics in a secular society
- 2. Making and un-making babies: the ethics of human reproduction
- 3. Immortalizing our genetic selves: the ethics of human cloning
- 4. Crossing the animal-human divide: the ethics of xenotransplantation
- 5. Dealing with death: the ethics of euthanasia
- 6. Terminating life support without consent: the ethics of withdrawing treatment
- 7. Pushing parents to the sidelines: the ethics of imposing treatment on seriously iII children
- 8. Altering baby boys' bodies: the ethics of infant male circumcision
- 9. Denying health care to individuals: the ethics of access
- 10. Structuring healthcare systems: the ethics of allocation
- 11. Creating an ethics toolbox: what does doing ethics require?
- Epilogue
- Sources
- Acknowledgements
- Index.