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Publisher: U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 588
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains a collection of essays exploring human dignity and bioethics, a concept crucial to today's discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular.
Author: John Frederic Kilner
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780802844286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely volume, written by scholars and practitioners at the forefront of genetic research, will help readers assess from a Christian perspective the ethical questions rased by today's genetic advancements.
Author: Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
Publisher: Paternoster Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays which "will help readers assess from a Christian perspective the challenging ethical questions and difficult personal and social decision-making situations raised by today's genetic advancements."--Back cover.
Author: Michael J Sandel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0674043065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBreakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature—to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature? The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda. In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America’s preeminent moral and political thinkers.
Author: The President's Council on Bioethics
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-03-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781508822318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe prospect of human cloning burst into the public consciousness in 1997, following the announcement of the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep. It has since captured much attention and generated great debate, both in the United States and around the world. Many are repelled by the idea of producing children who would be genetically virtually identical to preexisting individuals, and believe such a practice unethical. But some see in such cloning the possibility to do good for infertile couples and the broader society. Some want to outlaw it, and many nations have done so. Others believe the benefits outweigh the risks and the moral concerns, or they oppose legislative interference with science and technology in the name of freedom and progress. Complicating the national dialogue about human cloning is the isolation in 1998 of human embryonic stem cells, which many scientists believe to hold great promise for understanding and treating many chronic diseases and conditions. Some scientists also believe that stem cells derived from cloned human embryos, produced explicitly for such research, might prove to be uniquely useful for studying many genetic diseases and devising novel therapies. Public reaction to this prospect has been mixed, with some Americans supporting it in the hope of advancing biomedical research and helping the sick and the suffering, while others are concerned about the instrumentalization or abuse of nascent human life and the resulting danger of moral insensitivity and degradation.
Author: M. Therese Lysaught
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2018-11-16
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0814684793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatholic health care is one of the key places where the church lives Catholic social teaching (CST). Yet the individualistic methodology of Catholic bioethics inherited from the manualist tradition has yet to incorporate this critical component of the Catholic moral tradition. Informed by the places where Catholic health care intersects with the diverse societal injustices embodied in the patients it encounters, this book brings the lens of CST to bear on Catholic health care, illuminating a new spectrum of ethical issues and practical recommendations from social determinants of health, immigration, diversity and disparities, behavioral health, gender-questioning patients, and environmental and global health issues.
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Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9231042025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Frederic Kilner
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780802842329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a more well-founded perspective for considering some of the significant ethical issues in the field of medicine and health care.
Author: American Nurses Association
Publisher: Nursesbooks.org
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1558101764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPamphlet is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of individuals who enter the nursing profession, the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard, and an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0309047986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaising hopes for disease treatment and prevention, but also the specter of discrimination and "designer genes," genetic testing is potentially one of the most socially explosive developments of our time. This book presents a current assessment of this rapidly evolving field, offering principles for actions and research and recommendations on key issues in genetic testing and screening. Advantages of early genetic knowledge are balanced with issues associated with such knowledge: availability of treatment, privacy and discrimination, personal decision-making, public health objectives, cost, and more. Among the important issues covered: Quality control in genetic testing. Appropriate roles for public agencies, private health practitioners, and laboratories. Value-neutral education and counseling for persons considering testing. Use of test results in insurance, employment, and other settings.
