Format:
Online-Ressource (XXIV, 256 p, digital)
ISBN:
9781402030628
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Content:
What are the resources and needs, the strengths and the vulnerabilities of patients, of society, or of nature? How do we evaluate the societal potential of scientific discovery? It is fairly well assured that we are influencing the terms of existence of many inhabitants of this planet, from flora to fauna to humans. Moreover, history has shown that while technologies can be used neutrally, they can be (and have been) used to the great benefit - or the great detriment - of human life and the fate of the world as a whole. How various types of knowledge and technological ability will be deployed
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preliminaries; CONTENTS; The Past, Present and Future of Human Nature; Unethical Contexts for Ethical Questions; Human Subject Protections; Secret State Experiments and Medical Ethics; Cross-Cultural Considerations in Medical Ethics; Reproductive Rights and Health in the Developing World; Genetic Testing of Human Embryos; Choosing Our Children; The Heart Disease Epidemic That Wasn't; Recent History of End-of-Life Care and Implications for the Future; The Expanding Circle and Moral Community-Naturally Speaking; Science, Conservation and Global Security; Energy, Technology and Climate; INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781402030611
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Expanding horizons in bioethics Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer, 2005 ISBN 1402030614
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1402030622
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
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Medicine
Keywords:
Biomedizin
;
Bioethik
DOI:
10.1007/1-4020-3062-2
URL:
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