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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of sc…
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- 9781461936398
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- 1 online resource (vi, 214 pages .).
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Communicating Moral Concern: An Ethics of Critical Responsiveness
A novel reframing of moral agency, emphasizing the responsive habits and skills by which we engage one another's attention to moral concerns.Modern moral theories have crystallized around the logic of individual choices, abstracted from social and historical context. Yet most action, including moral theorizing, can equally be understood as a response, conscious or otherwise, to the social world…
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- 9781461931171
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In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics
Includes index.One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262305976
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages) :illustrations.
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Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficence
Explores the philosophical and practical ethical implications of a definition of health as a state that allows us to reach our goals.Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This de…
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- 9780262282383
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- 1 online resource (x, 222 pages).
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Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges
The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an ongoing phenomenological sense of bodies themselves; with the impact of postmodernist theory as it problematizes the certainties of binary thinking; and with a postmodern culture in which bioscientific d…
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- 9780262283526
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- 1 online resource (vi, 288 pages).
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The Evolution of Morality
"A Bradford book."A consideration of whether the human capacity to make moral judgments is innate and, if so, what implications follow; combines philosophical discussion with the latest findings from the empirical sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276535
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- 1 online resource (271 pages).
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Fact and value :essays on ethics and metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson
"A Bradford book."A diverse collection of essays, which reflect the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work.The diversity of topics discussed in this book reflects the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work. Throughout her long career at MIT, Thomson's straightforward approach and emphasis on problem-solving have shaped philosophy in significant ways. Some of the bo…
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- 9780262269612
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- 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages)
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Transgression in games and play
Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions. Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players. Videogames themselves can include transgressive or upsetting content, including excessive violence. Such …
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- 0262348705
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- 1 online resource (vi, 318 pages)
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Healing psychiatry : bridging the science/humanism divide
A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics. Psychiatry today is torn by opposing sensibilities. Is it primarily a science of brain functioning or primarily an art of understanding the human mind in its social and cultural context? C…
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- 9780262269247
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 178 pages).
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Good and real :demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics
"A Bradford book."Examining a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, and other topics, Good and Real tries to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271943
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations
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