Where Science and Ethics Meet: Dilemmas at the Frontiers of by Chris Willmott,Salvador Macip

By Chris Willmott,Salvador Macip

Through attractive case stories and transparent motives of the underlying technological know-how, this ebook makes the social affects and moral results of contemporary advances in biomedicine comprehensible for normal readers.

• presents transparent, simply comprehensible info for nonspecialist readers with enough element to allow an figuring out of the technology at the back of the discoveries and the diversity of moral difficulties they generate

• offers a dynamic mixture of current or near-future case reviews (fictional), clinical factors, and discussions of ethics

• Addresses subject matters which are often within the media, comparable to cloning, organ transplantation, and genetic amendment, and clarifies strategies that folks have heard approximately yet won't totally understand

• Summarizes arguments in desire and opposed to to permit readers to shape their very own evaluations on vital moral debates

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