Basic Bioethics Series

59 primary works • 59 total works
The MIT Press

The Basic Bioethics series makes innovative works in bioethics available to a broad audience and introduces seminal scholarly manuscripts, state-of-the-art reference works, and textbooks. Topics engaged include the philosophy of medicine, advancing genetics and biotechnology, end-of-life care, health and social policy, and the empirica…
Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Health Care Rationing
3.69
· 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1999 · 7 editions
A rational look at health care rationing, from eth…
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Bioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues
In recent years, bioethicists have worked on gover…
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The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Human embryonic stem cells can divide indefinitely…
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Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy (Basic Bioethics)
3.20
· 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 6 editions
A study of the importance of self-trust for women'…
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Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity
Engendering International Health presents the work…
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What Genes Can't Do
3.40
· 10 Ratings · published 2002 · 7 editions
The idea of the gene has been a central organizing…
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In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis
Timely and provocative essays on bioethical questi…
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Pragmatic Bioethics
2.71
· 7 Ratings · published 1999 · 5 editions
A dramatic new introduction to the perplexing ethi…
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Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics
4.17
· 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2004 · 7 editions
This textbook for instruction in biomedical resear…
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Genetics and Life Insurance: Medical Underwriting and Social Policy
Experts discuss the economic, legal, and social is…
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Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficence
Explores the philosophical and practical ethical i…
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Is Human Nature Obsolete?: Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition
As our scientific and technical abilities expand a…
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DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology Of Justice
Is DNA technology the ultimate diviner of guilt or…
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End-of-life Decision Making: A Cross-national Study
This examination of end-of-life decision making of…
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Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled
A legal and moral analysis of medical decision mak…
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Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges
The provocative contention of the postmodernist an…
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Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility
The principle of patient autonomy dominates the co…
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Against Bioethics
3.67
· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 9 editions
Governments, health professionals, patients, resea…
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Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide
A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that…
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Bioethics And Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine And War
Is medical ethics in times of armed conflict ident…
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Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences: Case Studies of Policy Challenges from New Technologies
Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences e…
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Looking Within: A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy
In Looking Within, Deborah Blizzard examines the h…
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Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification
Scholars discuss the genetic modification of embry…
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Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise
Physicians in the United States who refuse to perf…
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The Ethics of Protocells: Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory
Experts explore the potential benefits, risks, and…
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Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics
Bioethics has become increasingly politicized over…
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Pragmatic Neuroethics: Improving Treatment and Understanding of the Mind-Brain
A survey of the emerging field of neuroethics that…
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Neuroethics: An Introduction with Readings
4.05
· 85 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2010 · 4 editions
Explores the ethical, legal, and societal issues a…
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Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age
3.50
· 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 9 editions
Investigations into the interplay of biological an…
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Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate
3.70
· 138 Ratings · 21 Reviews · published 2012 · 10 editions
In contemporary Western society, people are more o…
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The Ethics of Animal Research: Exploring the Controversy
A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and o…
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Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medicine
3.50
· 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions
An argument against the "lifeboat ethic" of contem…
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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
"Human dignity" has been enshrined in internationa…
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Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children
3.00
· 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions
A critical review of the debate over the still-hyp…
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In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics
3.91
· 11 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions
One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes…
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Intervention in the Brain: Politics, Policy, and Ethics
The political and policy implications of recent de…
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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build …
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Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care: An Interdisciplinary Reader
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental heal…
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Research Misconduct Policy in Biomedicine: Beyond the Bad-Apple Approach
An analysis of current biomedical research miscond…
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Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
An argument that modern liberal democracies should…
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Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits
3.67
· 9 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2013 · 7 editions
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that arg…
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The Politics of Adoption: Gender and the Making of French Citizenship
An argument that French adoption policies reflect …
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Rationing Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Setting Limits on Healthcare
A provocative argument that the best way to delive…
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Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ide…
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The Censor's Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research
An argument that the system of boards that license…
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Dying in the Twenty-first Century: Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider…
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Preterm Babies, Fetal Patients, and Childbearing Choices
Why preterm birth rates in the United States remai…
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The Myth of the Moral Brain: The Limits of Moral Enhancement
An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably…
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Ebola's Message: Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, pol…
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Vaccination Ethics and Policy: An Introduction with Readings
A comprehensive overview of important and conteste…
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Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications
Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on bal…
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Ethics in Everyday Places: Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and inju…
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Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice
How medical education and practice can move beyond…
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Choosing Down Syndrome: Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies
An argument that more people should have children …
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Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
How developing a more expansive, non-formal concep…
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New Methuselahs: The Ethics of Life Extension
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the…
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The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution
A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illust…
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Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics
An analysis of how findings in behavioral economic…
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The Case against Death
4.20
· 15 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 2 editions
A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acce…
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