Expanding Horizons in Bioethics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Galston, Arthur W. (Editor), Peppard, Christiana Z. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Medical ethics.; Environment.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Environment, general.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

What are the resources and needs, the strengths and the vulnerabilities of patients, of society, or of nature? How do we evaluate the societal potential of scientific discovery? It is fairly well assured that we are influencing the terms of existence of many inhabitants of this planet, from flora to...