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Springer Expanding Horizons in Bioethics 1st Editon 2010 Softbound by A.W. Galston, Christiana Z. Peppard
Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Each speaker in the Bioethics & Public Policy Seminar Series was invited because of her or his expertise in a given area of bioethics. Each of the more successful participants was invited to contribute a manuscript for publication. The essays are bound together by the application of an ethical analysis to scientific questions, and by consideration of policy implications. At its inception, bioethics was virtually synonymous with medical ethics. As the field grew and attracted new practitioners, it became clear that other applications of this new subject required extension of its scope. For example, environmental ethics, propelled by such authors as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, quickly developed a vigorous literature of its own. More recently, developments in the analysis of the human genome, the enticing medical possibilities offered by the therapeutic use of stem cells, the complexities surrounding the cloning of animals and possibly humans and the development of transgenic agricultural crops have given new impetus to the expansion of traditional bioethical horizons. Bioethics must now adjust to these new realities, for it is clear that public interest in the field is growing as these new challenges appear. Science and Society.- 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.- 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.- Environmental Ethics.- The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics.- The Expanding Circle and Moral Community—Naturally Speaking.- Science, Conservation and Global Security.- Energy, Technology and Climate.