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...

Table of Contents:

• Science and Society
• The Past, Present and Future of Human Nature
• Unethical Contexts for Ethical Questions
• Human Subject Protections
• Secret State Experiments and Medical Ethics
• Cross-Cultural Considerations in Medical Ethics
• Medical Ethics
• Reproductive Rights and Health in the Developing World
• Genetic Testing of Human Embryos
• Choosing Our Children
• The Heart Disease Epidemic that Wasn’t
• Recent History of End-of-Life Care and Implications for the Future
• Environmental Ethics
• The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics
• The Expanding Circle and Moral Community—Naturally Speaking
• Science, Conservation and Global Security
• Energy, Technology and Climate.