Bioethics

A Philosophical Introduction

AvStephen Holland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics. It also presents provocative, philosophically informed arguments on current bioethical issues. Holland engages with debates ranging from the more familiar such as euthanasia, advance decisions to refuse treatment, and new reproductive technologies to the philosophical implications of recent developments in genetics, including prenatal genetic therapy, genetic enhancement and human cloning. The book is built around four crucial themes. The first is moral status: what are the implications of the moral status of human embryos or animals for our biomedical practices? The second theme life, death and killing looks at the ethics of ending, or failing to lengthen, human life. Holland then explores various questions of personal identity raised in contemporary bioethical debates. Finally, he presents and develops a version of the argument from nature which continues to be influential in bioethics in order to make sense of the objection that some biomedical innovations are �unnatural�. Structuring the discussions in this way creates an engaging introduction to bioethics that is an ideal textbook for students, whilst offering much to stimulate colleagues in the field.This second edition has been thoroughly and comprehensively updated to reflect the most recent advances in bioethics, and includes an entirely new chapter on the ethical treatment of patients in the minimally conscious state.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Upplaga:2
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780745690599

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Stephen Holland is Reader in the Departments of Philosophy and Health Sciences at the University of York.

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"Steven Holland�s Bioethics has become established as the best one volume introduction to philosophical bioethics. I recommend it warmly to students of philosophy and bioethics, but the general reader will also find it enjoyable and accessible. I am delighted to welcome its second edition."Richard Ashcroft, Queen Mary University of London"Anyone wishing to get their bearings on the fundamental philosophical questions about moral status, personal identity, life, death, killing, and appeals to nature, that underlie issues in bioethics, should start with Stephen Holland�s book. It is an excellent, balanced work that introduces bioethics in the way that it should be introduced, that is, with some philosophical depth."John P. Lizza, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1Part I Moral StatusIntroduction to Part I 91 Stem Cell Therapy 112 Xenotransplantation 29Part I: Concluding Remarks 48Part II Life, Death and KillingIntroduction to Part II 533 The Value of Life 554 What is Death? 685 Killing versus Letting Die 85Part II: Concluding Remarks 103Part III Personal IdentityIntroduction to Part III 1076 Prenatal Genetic Intervention 1117 Advance Directives 127Part III: Concluding Remarks 147Part IV The Normativity of the 'Natural'Introduction to Part IV 1518 Managing Reproduction 1599 Genetic Enhancement 17210 Human Cloning 191Part IV: Concluding Remarks 203Concluding Remark: Deontic Constraints on Biomedicine 205References 208Index 218