Research Catalog

Title

The biological foundations of bioethics / Tim Lewens.

Author

Lewens, Tim,

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Details

Description

222 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

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. The essays collected in this book, which include two previously unpublished pieces and a substantial introduction, tease out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subject them to scrutiny.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. -- Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Bioethical Issues
• Bioethics
• Bioethik
• Biological Phenomena > ethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Medical ethics
• Medical ethics
• Philosophische Anthropologie

Genre/Form

Collected Works.

Note

• Essays collected in this volume were written between 2001 and 2014 and all but two were previously published as journal articles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

ISBN

• 9780198712657
• 0198712650

LCCN

2014944410

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library