A Companion to Bioethics

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This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics. Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, health care, and teaching Now includes new essays on currently controversial topics such as cloning and genetic enhancement Topics are clearly and compellingly presented by internationally renowned bioethicists A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves

Author Biography:

Helga Kuhse is Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Centrefor Human Bioethics, Monash University, Australia. She is theauthor, co-author or editor of more than 150 professional articlesand some 15 books, including Bioethics: An Anthology(co-edited with Peter Singer, Second Edition, Blackwell,2006). Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics atPrinceton University and Laureate Professor at the University ofMelbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more thanforty books, including Animal Liberation (first published in1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rightsmovement, Practical Ethics (Third Edition, 2011), InDefense of Animals: The Second Wave (Blackwell, 2005), TheMoral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature(co-edited with Renata Singer, Blackwell, 2004) and The Life YouCan Save (2009). He was the founding president of theInternational Association of Bioethics, and in 2005, Timenamed him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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February 20th, 2012

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Professional & Vocational

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Edited by Helga Kuhse
Edited by Peter Singer

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2nd edition

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640

Series

Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

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173x246x36

ISBN-13

9781444350845

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10837403

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