Bioscience Ethics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521745277)

Bioscience ethics facilitates free and accurate information transfer from applied science to applied bioethics. Its major elements are: increased understanding of biological systems, responsible use of technology, and attuning ethnocentric debates to new scientific insights. Pioneered by Irina Pollard in 1994, bioscience ethics has become an internationally recognized discipline, interfacing science and bioethics within professional perspectives such as medical, legal, bio-engineering, and economics. Written for students and professionals alike, the fundamental feature of this book is its breadth, important because bioscience ethics interweaves many diverse subjects in the process of gathering specialist scientific knowledge for bioethical review. It contains chapters which embrace topics affecting human reproduction, end-of-life care and euthanasia, challenge human-dominated ecosystems, and review population growth, economic activity and warfare. A background section describes the evolution of ethical consciousness, explores the future, and proposes that the reworking of ethical boundaries can enhance mature decision-making in harmony with changing technology.

Author: Irina Pollard
ISBN-10: 0521745276
ISBN-13: 9780521745277
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2009
Pages: 332
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.80w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2010