Overview
- Features new essays and case studies on genetically modified foods, use of animals in research, nanotechnology, and global climate change
- Expertly deploys narratives, argument analysis, case studies, essays and classroom discussion questions to provoke spirited in-class discussions among undergraduates
- Stimulating text that entertains students and helps them to hone their critical thinking skills
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Life Science Ethics
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Case Studies
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Keywords
About this book
Does nature have intrinsic value? Should we be doing more to save wilderness and ocean ecosystems? What are our duties to future generations of humans? Do animals have rights? This revised edition of "Life Science Ethics" introduces these questions using narrative case studies on genetically modified foods, use of animals in research, nanotechnology, and global climate change, and then explores them in detail using essays written by nationally-recognized experts in the ethics field.
Part I introduces ethics, the relationship of religion to ethics, how we assess ethical arguments, and a method ethicists use to reason about ethical theories. Part II demonstrates the relevance of ethical reasoning to the environment, land, farms, food, biotechnology, genetically modified foods, animals in agriculture and research, climate change, and nanotechnology. Part III presents case studies for the topics found in Part II.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life Science Ethics
Editors: Gary L. Comstock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8792-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8791-1Published: 02 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9320-0Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8792-8Published: 24 August 2010
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIX, 482
Additional Information: First edition published by Iowa State Press, 2002
Topics: Ethics, Life Sciences, general, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Technology, Agriculture, Environment, general