Bioethics : a philosophical introduction
by
 
Holland, Stephen.

Title
Bioethics : a philosophical introduction

Author
Holland, Stephen.

ISBN
9780745626178
 
9780745626185

Personal Author
Holland, Stephen.

Publication Information
Cambridge, U.K. : Polity Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Physical Description
vi, 232 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents
Pt. 1: Moral status -- Stem cell therapy -- Xenotransplantation -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 2: Life, death, and killing -- The value of life -- What is death? -- Killing versus letting die -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 3: Personal identity -- Prenatal genetic intervention -- Advance directives -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 4: The normativity of the 'natural' -- Managing reproduction -- Genetic enhancement -- Human cloning -- Concluding remarks: Deontic constraints on biomedicine.

Subject Term
Bioethics.
 
Medical ethics.
 
Ethics, Medical.


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