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Progress in bioethics : science, policy, and politics
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Progress in bioethics : science, policy, and politics

Author: Jonathan D Moreno; Sam Berger
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Series: Basic bioethics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Leading scholars debate politically progressive perspectives on bioethics and the implications for society, politics, and science in the twenty-first century.

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Progress in bioethics.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010
(OCoLC)768152990
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jonathan D Moreno; Sam Berger
ISBN: 9780262134880 0262134888
OCLC Number: 318672954
Description: xx, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Bioethics as politics --
Bioethics progressing / Sam Berger and Jonathan D. Moreno --
Can there be a progressive bioethics? / Richard Lempert --
Bioethics as progressive --
Politics, progressivism, and bioethics / R. Alta Charo --
Bioethics : the new conservative crusade / Kathryn Hinsch --
Justice that you must pursue : a progressive American bioethics / Laurie Zoloth --
The sociology of political bioethics --
Professionalism and politics : biomedicalization and the rise of bioethics / Paul Root Wolpe --
The tension between progressive bioethics and religion / John H. Evans --
Can national bioethics commissions be progressive? should they? / Eric M. Meslin --
Conflicting views of biotechnology --
Technoprogressive biopolitics and human enhancement / James J. Hughes --
Biopolitics, mythic science, and progressive values / Marcy Darnovsky --
Progress beyond politics? --
Can bioethics transcend ideology? (and should it?) / Arthur L. Caplan --
A Catholic progressive on care and conscience / Michael Rugnetta --
Reforming health care : ends and means / Daniel Callahan --
Finding common ground in bioethics? / William F. May --
Afterword.
Series Title: Basic bioethics.
Responsibility: edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger.

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