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Bioethics: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) [Hardcover]

Helga Kuhse (Author), Peter Singer (Author)
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0631203109 978-0631203100 November 16, 1999 1
This volume is a definitive, high-qualiity, one-volume collection of key primary texts for the study of bioethics. In its structure and content, the Anthology is intended to complement the Companion to Bioethics, edited by the same scholars.

  • The Anthology is independent of any particular approach to bioethics.
  • Can be used as a source book to complement the Companion to Bioethics.
  • Probes more deeply than the standard anthologies into the foundations of bioethics.
  • More global in approach than competition.


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‘This collection is an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers in field of bioethics. It brings key articles and historical sources that have been amongst the most influential in the debates on subjects such as life, death and allocation of scarce resources.’ – Ruth Chadwick, Lancaster University

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This volume is a definitive, high-quality, one-volume collection of key primary texts for the study of bioethics. In its structure and content, the Anthology is intended to complement the Companion to Bioethics, edited by the same scholars. Drawing together the most important texts in the field, the volume will be of great value not only to philosophers, students of philosophy, and moral theologians, but also to doctors and nurses, sociologists and lawyers, and others working in health-care and biomedical sciences. Broadly based and of direct relevance to modern health-care dilemmas, Bioethics: An Anthology will also be of interest to the general reader.

Equipped with an extensive index and covering all the relevant areas in bioethics, this volume provides an accessible overview of the subject matter and serves as a reference work, making a unique contribution to the field by collecting the key texts on such varied topics as the new genetics and reproductive technologies, euthanasia, AIDS, animal and human experimentation, nursing ethics and medical ethics, and the teaching and practice of bioethics.


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  • Hardcover: 616 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (November 16, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0631203109
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631203100
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.9 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bioethics, for genreal interest and further study., April 1, 2000
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The Blackwells Anthology on Bioethics provides a strong material based support for courses in Bioethics or applied Philopsophy. It's two best features are that it contains the articles that most Bioethics courses will require you to read (Response to Purdy, for example) and yet most of the articles are in easy to understand language and require little or no previous knowledge. Also, far from being the dry tomes one associates with philosophical essays, the articles are genuinely engaging.

There are a few articles where if you haven't read Kant or Mill before you might be stuck, but most are easy to read and some entries are written by lay people about their experiences, including one mans suicide note as an argument for euthanasia and a couples experiences of IVF.

The editorial really helps to highlight the issues in the book and it is arranged in an acessible format, so that one can skip areas that aren't of interest.

Useful to students or acaedemics (in Medicine or Philosophy) and fascinating for anyone who wants to look into this area.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of proponents and opponents on several ethical issues in the modern medical field., October 14, 2010
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An insight on issues we're facing today in the medical field. Some are considered controversial and some conflicting with religions. The ideas are built on prima faciae basis that sometime neglects our core issue, which's the emotions and feelings we possess, uniquely as human beings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting offer, April 2, 2010
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The book, Bioethics: An Anthology, sure gives me all the ground work material that I need in my pursuit of research in Bioethics. I just made a trial attempt purchasing this book from Amazon.com; it worked. Will go for more books when I have money.
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If the unborn are human persons, the principles of justice and non-maleficence (rightly understood) prohibit every abortion; that is, every procedure or technical process carried out with the intention of killing an unborn child or terminating its development. Read the first page
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contracted pregnancy, obstructive desire, discontinuation account, cortically dead infant, reasonable medical alternatives, cell mass division, theoretical equipoise, evidentiary view, somatic cell engineering, germ line engineering, potentiality principle, precedent autonomy, fair innings argument, clinical equipoise, organ transplantation policy, worse than letting die, germ line changes, difference thesis, transplant societies, germ line alterations, nephew die, intentional causation, transplantable organs, active voluntary euthanasia, procreative autonomy
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New York, United States, John Pearson, Oxford University Press, Hastings Center Report, Moral Difference Myth, President's Commission, Golden Rule, American Medical Association, Peter Singer, Roman Catholic, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Helga Kuhse, James Rachels, Public Affairs, Good Samaritan, Sanctity of Life Ideal, Huntington's Disease, Journal of the American Medical, Anthony Bland, Supreme Court, John Harris, Basil Blackwell Ltd, Englewood Cliffs
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