Observing Bioethics - Hardcover

Fox, Renée C; Swazey, Judith P

 
9780195365559: Observing Bioethics
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195365550 ISBN 13: 9780195365559
Publisher: OUP USA, 2008

Synopsis

Based on original primary and extensive secondary source materials, the book views bioethics as a complex phenomenon that is not only related to advances in modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the fundamental values and beliefs and larger moral and existential questions which American society has been collectively grappling in its courts, legislatures, and media. Although they center their analysis on U.S. bioethics, the authors also trace the field's international spread, including case studies of bioethics in France and Pakistan - two of the many societies in which it has developed. While recognizing the intellectual, moral and sociological importance of American bioethics, they are critical of certain of its characteristics, and concerned about their implications-especially the problems of thinking socially, culturally, and internationally that have existed since bioethics' inception; the field's "tenuous interdisciplinarity"; and the extent to which the "culture wars" on the larger American scene have recently penetrated it.

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Review

This insightful book adds depth to the literature on the history of bioethics and delivers important and sometimes controversial insights about contemporary bioethics. (Ana Smith Iltis, PhD, Doody's Notes)

About the Author

RenEe C. Fox is Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences and emerita senior fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous books.



Judith Swazey is an independent scholar and an adjunct professor of social and behavioral sciences at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Her many works include Merger Games and The Courage to Fail.

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195365550
ISBN 13 
9780195365559
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
400