Bioethics in Our World: A Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1793562970 ISBN 13: 9781793562975

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Bioethics in Our World: A Reader explores issues related to public health, psychiatry, genetics, and more, and examines the moral worth of actions within these fields. The anthology features collected cases that examine various topics and encourage readers to consider the ethical dilemmas they may face in their futures as clinicians, researchers, and citizens.

The book is organized into seven units. The first unit presents the theories of utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and care ethics. Additional units cover topics that are salient to understanding the nature of bioethics and the world in which bioethics exists. These units address ethical issues in research; the history of eugenics and its relationship to eugenic practices today; and reproductive rights and technologies. Readers learn about experiences faced by patients, researchers, and healthcare professionals with regard to race, gender, age, and ability, and how these experiences are the result of a history of bias and stereotyping. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, stem cell research, gene-editing technology, and medicalization are explored.

Timely, thought-provoking, and essential, Bioethics in Our World is an exemplary text for courses in public health, psychiatry, genetics, medical research, or any other course that explores bioethics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1793562970
• ISBN 13: 9781793562975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: French Michael