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A Companion to Bioethics

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Availability:In StockContributor:Helga Kuhse (Editor), Peter Singer (Editor)Series:Blackwell Companions to Philosophy #106Publish date:2012-02-20Pages:640
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781444350845ISBN-10:1444350846UPC:9781444350845Book Category:Medical, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics, Ethics & Moral PhilosophySize:9.60 x 6.80 x 1.20 inchesWeight:2.101Product ID:SCMY8TZAZ9

This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.

  • Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, health care, and teaching
  • Now includes new essays on currently controversial topics such as cloning and genetic enhancement
  • Topics are clearly and compellingly presented by internationally renowned bioethicists
  • A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781444350845ISBN-10:1444350846UPC:9781444350845Book Category:Medical, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics, Ethics & Moral PhilosophySize:9.60 x 6.80 x 1.20 inchesWeight:2.101Product ID:SCMY8TZAZ9
Helga Kuhse is Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Australia. She is the author, co-author or editor of more than 150 professional articles and some 15 books, including Bioethics: An Anthology (co-edited with Peter Singer, Second Edition, Blackwell, 2006).

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than forty books, including Animal Liberation (first published in 1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement, Practical Ethics (Third Edition, 2011), In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Blackwell, 2005), The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (co-edited with Renata Singer, Blackwell, 2004) and The Life You Can Save (2009). He was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and in 2005, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.


Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition

2nd Revised Edition

Contributor(s)

Helga Kuhse (Editor), Peter Singer (Editor)

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