The biological foundations of bioethics

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The work The biological foundations of bioethics represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The biological foundations of bioethics

Statement of responsibility

Tim Lewens

Creator

• Lewens, Tim

Author

• Lewens, Tim

Subject

• Bioethics
• Bioethik
• Biological Phenomena -- ethics
• Collected Works
• Bioethical Issues
• Medical ethics
• Medical ethics
• Philosophische Anthropologie
• Ethics, Medical
• Bioethics

Genre

• Collected Works

Language

eng

Summary

Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. The essays collected in this book, which include two previously unpublished pieces and a substantial introduction, tease out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subject them to scrutiny. The topics covered include human enhancement, the risks of technical progress, the alleged moral threat of synthetic biology, the reality of human nature, the relevance of evolutionary psychology to social policy, the nature of the distinction between health and disease, and justice in healthcare decision-making. -- Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NLM

Dewey number

175

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QH332

LC item number

.L488 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 2015 D-537
• WB 60