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Bioethics Books
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.13 — 801,069 ratings — published 2010
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.69 — 52,981 ratings — published 2008
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.49 — 216,559 ratings — published 2014
The Fox Inheritance (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,892 ratings — published 2011
Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.85 — 363 ratings — published 1978
The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,573 ratings — published 2007
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,074 ratings — published 2009
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.85 — 846,873 ratings — published 2005
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 9 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.73 — 134,648 ratings — published 1896
From Chance to Choice: Genetics & Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.83 — 46 ratings — published 2000
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,891 ratings — published 1997
Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (Encounter Broadsides)
by (shelved 7 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.79 — 82 ratings — published 2002
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,528 ratings — published 1979
Strangers At The Bedside: A History Of How Law And Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.85 — 59 ratings — published 1991
Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.18 — 131 ratings — published 2008
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,123 ratings — published 2002
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,866,346 ratings — published 1818
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.17 — 248,441 ratings — published 2007
Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Sixth Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.91 — 102 ratings — published 1982
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,056,327 ratings — published 1990
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,995 ratings — published 2007
Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.63 — 137 ratings — published 2011
Bioethics and the Christian Life: A Guide to Making Difficult Decisions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.09 — 115 ratings — published 2009
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.00 — 286,424 ratings — published 2003
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.28 — 40,904 ratings — published 2021
What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.18 — 179 ratings — published 2020
The Ethics of Abortion: Women's Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice (Routledge Annals of Bioethics)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.39 — 89 ratings — published 2010
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,471 ratings — published 2017
Bioethics: A Primer for Christians (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.77 — 341 ratings — published 1995
Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.03 — 37,530 ratings — published 2005
The Basics of Bioethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.83 — 69 ratings — published 1999
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,272,565 ratings — published 2004
Human Identity and Bioethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.53 — 17 ratings — published 2005
Biomedicine and Beatitude: An Introduction to Catholic Bioethics (Catholic Moral Thought)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.93 — 44 ratings — published 2011
Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life: Celebrating the Beauty of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.09 — 58 ratings — published 2000
Biotechnology and the Human Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.70 — 30 ratings — published 2007
Bioethics: An Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.79 — 117 ratings — published 1999
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,010 ratings — published 2006
Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.83 — 113 ratings — published 1983
CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.62 — 232 ratings — published 2021
A Companion to Bioethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.80 — 45 ratings — published 1998
In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,240 ratings — published 2019
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,309 ratings — published 2018
Anticipatory Corpse, The: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.23 — 62 ratings — published 2011
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.40 — 25 ratings — published 2002
Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.05 — 44 ratings — published 2011
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,735 ratings — published 2013
Christian Bioethics: A Guide for Pastors, Health Care Professionals, and Families (B&H Studies in Christian Ethics)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 4.04 — 45 ratings — published 2013
Methods in Medical Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.74 — 23 ratings — published 2001
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bioethics)
avg rating 3.92 — 235 ratings — published 2008
“The concept of ethics in the field of medicine is much more salient than in other fields, primarily because, in medicine, we are dealing with the lives of people. A surgeon’s credo when performing surgeries rigidly follows the fact that what’s right is right and what’s wrong is wrong. If you cut a major nerve in the brain, mistaking it for an artery, it is your patient who suffers for the rest of his life—that is, if he even survives that mistake. Consequently, the philosophy of ethics in medicine extends to so many facets of life. Physicians must learn to respect culture, religion, traditions, and laws. We are bound (to speak, as if in hyperbole) by precepts or contracts that always safeguard the welfare and dignity of our patients.”
― The Medicine That Is Love
― The Medicine That Is Love
“Eugenics has become a dirty word in popular culture because of its excesses in the early twentieth century, including forced sterilization laws in the USA and Germany (which were applied to the ‘feebleminded’ but sometimes also to epileptics and even sexual deviants). But a lot of the criticism of eugenics conflates what Galton and many modern academics in bioethics mean by ‘eugenics’ with how the Nazis misused it [...] Moral grandstanding has become so common in connection with the word that journalists often use ‘eugenics’ to mean something like ‘unjust coercion of innocent parents’. But Galton and Darwin would have rejected this, and so should we. According to Leonard Darwin, Charles Darwin’s son and past president of the Eugenics Society of England, ‘Eugenics is the study of heredity as it may be applied to the betterment, mental and physical, of the human race’ [...] While people disagree about precisely which traits are worth promoting, what motivates eugenics is a concern that individual welfare depends in part on the average traits of a population, and that demographic trends matter to the extent that they influence the success or failure of entire populations.”
― Creating Future People
― Creating Future People











