Observing Bioethics

Renée C Fox, Judith P Swazey (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-536555-9 (ISBN)

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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.

PART I. TAKING ROOT IN THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE; PART II. SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND BIOETHICS; PART III. MIGRATIONS; PART IV. TAKING STOCK OF BIOETHICS IN THE UNITED STATES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.8.2008
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 160 mm
Gewicht	802 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-19-536555-0 / 0195365550
ISBN-13	978-0-19-536555-9 / 9780195365559
Zustand	Neuware