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Expanding Horizons in Bioethics

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Editors:
  1. Arthur W. Galston

    1. Yale University, New Haven, USA

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  2. Christiana Z. Peppard

    1. Yale University, New Haven, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Science and Society

    1. The Past, Present and Future of Human Nature

      • Samuel Gorovitz
      Pages 3-18

    2. Unethical Contexts for Ethical Questions

      • David Ehrenfeld
      Pages 19-34

    3. Human Subject Protections

      • C. Kristina Gunsalus
      Pages 35-58

    4. Secret State Experiments and Medical Ethics

      • Jonathan Moreno
      Pages 59-69

    5. Cross-Cultural Considerations in Medical Ethics

      • Marcia Angell
      Pages 71-84

  3. Medical Ethics

    1. Reproductive Rights and Health in the Developing World

      • Ruth Macklin
      Pages 87-101

    2. Genetic Testing of Human Embryos

      • Kathy Hudson, Susannah Baruch, Gail Javitt
      Pages 103-122

    3. Choosing Our Children

      • Karen Lebacqz
      Pages 123-139

    4. The Heart Disease Epidemic that Wasn’t

      • Harry M. Rosenberg
      Pages 141-159

    5. Recent History of End-of-Life Care and Implications for the Future

      • James Flory, Ezekiel Emanuel
      Pages 161-182

  4. Environmental Ethics

    1. The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics

      • J. Baird Callicott
      Pages 185-208

    2. The Expanding Circle and Moral Community—Naturally Speaking

      • Chalmers Clark
      Pages 209-220

    3. Science, Conservation and Global Security

      • George M. Woodwell
      Pages 221-232

    4. Energy, Technology and Climate

      • David Goodstein
      Pages 233-245

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 247-255
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About this book

Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Each speaker in the Bioethics & Public Policy Seminar Series was invited because of her or his expertise in a given area of bioethics. Each of the more successful participants was invited to contribute a manuscript for publication. The essays are bound together by the application of an ethical analysis to scientific questions, and by consideration of policy implications. At its inception, bioethics was virtually synonymous with medical ethics. As the field grew and attracted new practitioners, it became clear that other applications of this new subject required extension of its scope. For example, environmental ethics, propelled by such authors as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, quickly developed a vigorous literature of its own. More recently, developments in the analysis of the human genome, the enticing medical possibilities offered by the therapeutic use of stem cells, the complexities surrounding the cloning of animals and possibly humans and the development of transgenic agricultural crops have given new impetus to the expansion of traditional bioethical horizons. Bioethics must now adjust to these new realities, for it is clear that public interest in the field is growing as these new challenges appear.

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From a pre-publication review:
"The collection of essays makes an original contribution through the generally very high standard of scholarship of the papers, and through the engagement by those authors with very contemporary issues in bioethics… It is rare that so many highly original views are collected in one volume."

Editors and Affiliations

  • Yale University, New Haven, USA

    Arthur W. Galston, Christiana Z. Peppard

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Expanding Horizons in Bioethics

  • Editors: Arthur W. Galston, Christiana Z. Peppard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3062-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3061-1Published: 10 February 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6781-4Published: 10 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3062-8Published: 15 June 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 255

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Environment, general, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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