“ruth chadwick”

In this revised edition of "Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control," leading scientists explore the nature and the goals of "test tube" reproduction and genetic engineering and their eugenic implications. This edition contains a new preface, and makes a significant contribution to the fields of ap... More

A look at the ethical considerations which lie at the heart of journalism, including freedom, democracy, truth, objectivity and privacy. The contributors promote an ethical code for journalists to follow. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: ... More

As we are increasingly using new technologies to change ourselves beyond therapy and in accordance with our own desires, understanding the challenges of human enhancement has become one of the most urgent topics of the current age. This volume contributes to such an understanding by critically exami... More

The ethical assessment of new technologies raises two principal concerns: the need to develop effective policies and legislation, and the reconsideration of the ethical frameworks in which these policies and laws are developed. The importance of rapid, accurate examinations of tensions between Philo... More

This diverse collection of papers attempts to address and discuss critically issues surrounding the control of, and access to, genetic information from ethical, medical, legal and theoretical points of view. Special reference is made to the implications of genetic information for eugenics, the insur... More

This volume offers a compilation of articles chosen by the current and past editors of "Bioethics" and "Developing World Bioethics," published in the journals during the last two decades. "The Bioethics Reader's" eight sections include some of the journals' best publications in areas comprising meth... More

This volume is a multidisciplinary and multinational collection of papers on aspects of genetic screening, with special reference to the situation in Europe. Starting from the situation in practice, the book proceeds to examine what lessons, if any, can be learned from historical precedents and soci... More

This collection examines how the field of ethics has developed over the past fifty years, by bringing together those articles that have been seminal in the development of the subject. Each of the six volumes carries an introduction presenting the historical context of the material, and a new index i... More