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Global bioethics : building on the Leopold legacy /
Van Rensselaer Potter created and defined the term ""bioethics"" in 1970, to describe a new philosophy that sought to integrate biology, ecology, medicine, and human values. Bioethics is often linked to environmental ethics and stands in sharp contrast to biomedical ethics. Becau...
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East Lansing, Mich. :
Michigan State University Press,
1988.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Knowledge of Adaptation is Needed for Wisdom; 1. The Leopold Legacy; New Perspectives on the Leopold Legacy; Aldo Leopold's Neglected Legacy; A Leopold Primer; 2. Human Survival; The Cancer Analogy; Earth as Organism; The Issue of Survival; Survival Cannot Be Assumed; The Meaning of Survival; Kinds of Survival; 3. Dilemmas in Ecological Bioethics; From Knowledge to Wisdom; The Dollar Dilemma; 4. Two Kinds of Bioethics; The Matter of Nomenclature; Teaching Ethics in Higher Education; Ethics in a New Phase; Global Bioethics and the Feminine Viewpoint.
- 5. Dilemmas in Medical BioethicsTeenage Pregnancy; Handicapped Newborns; Organ Transplantation Euthanasia; Euthanasia; The Secular Vision; 6. The Control of Human Fertility; Two Kinds of People; The San Antonio Connection; Clinical Applications: Infertility; Nonsurgical Methods of Contraception; Contraceptive Research; Pregnancy Termination; Planned Intervention in Population Change; Fertility-Regulating Methods; Social & Religious Correlates of Fertility; 7. Global Bioethics Defined; Human Health as the Global Bioethic; Medical Bioethics in Perspective; Ecological Bioethics in Perspective.
- Appendix 1: The Leopold HeritageThe Leopold Family Heritage; The Leopold Intellectual Heritage; Appendix 2: A Bioethical Creed for Individuals; Index.