Title:
Bioethics : a philosophical introduction
Author:
Holland, Stephen.
ISBN:
9780745626178
9780745626185
Personal Author:
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.