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The Biological Foundations of Bioethics - Tim Lewens

The Biological Foundations of Bioethics

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Buch | Hardcover
236 Seiten
2015
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-871265-7 (ISBN)
CHF 87,95 inkl. MwSt
Much recent work on the ethics of new biomedical technologies is committed to hidden, contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens explores and scrutinises these biological foundations, and includes work on human enhancement, synthetic biology, and justice in healthcare decision-making.
Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens, a leading expert in the field, teases out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subjects them to scrutiny. The topics covered include human enhancement, the risks of technical progress, the alleged moral threat of synthetic biology, the reality of human nature, the relevance of evolutionary psychology to social policy, the nature of the distinction between health and disease, and justice in healthcare decision-making.

Tim Lewens is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Clare College. His past publications include Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere (MIT Press, 2004), and Darwin (Routledge, 2007). He is also a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and runs the ERC-funded project 'A Science of Human Nature? Philosophical Disputes at the Interface of Natural and Social Sciences'.

PART ONE: BETTERING NATURE ; PART TWO: BIOLOGY IN ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.1.2015
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 146 x 222 mm
Gewicht 418 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 0-19-871265-0 / 0198712650
ISBN-13 978-0-19-871265-7 / 9780198712657
Zustand Neuware
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