Bioethics - Kuhse, Helga / Singer, Peter
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The expanded and revised edition of Bioethics: An Anthology is a definitive one-volume collection of key primary texts for the study of bioethics. Brings together writings on a broad range of ethical issues relating such matters as reproduction, genetics, life and death, and animal experimentation. Now includes introductions to each of the sections. Features new coverage of the latest debates on hot topics such as genetic screening, the use of embryonic human stem cells, and resource allocation between patients. The selections are independent of any particular approach to bioethics. Can be…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The expanded and revised edition of
Bioethics: An Anthology is a definitive one-volume collection of key primary texts for the study of bioethics.
Brings together writings on a broad range of ethical issues relating such matters as reproduction, genetics, life and death, and animal experimentation.
Now includes introductions to each of the sections.
Features new coverage of the latest debates on hot topics such as genetic screening, the use of embryonic human stem cells, and resource allocation between patients.
The selections are independent of any particular approach to bioethics.
Can be used as a source book to complement A Companion to Bioethics (1999).
Autorenporträt
Helga Kuhse, Ph.D., lehrte bis 1999 als Professorin an der Monash University Melbourne/Australien und war Direktorin des Centre for Human Bioethics and Monash University. Sie ist jetzt Senior Research Fellow am Centre for Human Bioethics. U.a. erschien von ihr: "Muß dieses Kind am Leben bleiben? Das Problem schwerstgeschädigter Neugeborener" (zusammen mit Peter Singer), 1993.

Peter Singer, geb. 1946, war bis 1999 Professor für Philosophie und stellvertretender Direktor des Centre for Human Bioethics an der Monash University Melbourne/Australien. Er lehrt derzeit als De Camp Professor of Bioethics an der Princeton University, USA. International bekannt wurde Peter Singer vor allem durch sein Buch "Animal Liberation". U.a. sind bisher von ihm erschienen: "Muß dieses Kind am Leben bleiben? Das Problem schwerstgeschädigter Neugeborener" (mit Helga Kuhse, 1992) und "Wie sollen wir leben? Ethik in einer egoistischen Zeit" (1996).
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"The field of bioethics continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. One could hardly ask for a more thorough guide to where it has been, and what values and principles might steer where it is going, than this comprehensive and balanced volume." Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania

"This is an outstanding, up-to-date collection which covers all the main issues in bioethics and brings together much of the best philosophical work on them." Dan W. Brock, Harvard Medical School

"A useful tool to gain an overview of important an influential texts and thinking of leading authors and commentators in bioethics." Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics