[PDF] Biotechnology And Bioethics eBook

Author : C. Ben Mitchell
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2007-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781589012769

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Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory. Who could argue that medical advances like antibiotics, blood transfusions, and pacemakers have not improved the quality of people's lives? But with each new technological breakthrough there comes an array of consequences, at once predicted and unpredictable, beneficial and hazardous. Outcry over recent developments in the reproductive and genetic sciences has revealed deep fissures in society's perception of biotechnical progress. Many are concerned that reckless technological development, driven by consumerist impulses and greedy entrepreneurialism, has the potential to radically shift the human condition—and not for the greater good. Biotechnology and the Human Good builds a case for a stewardship deeply rooted in Judeo-Christian theism to responsibly interpret and assess new technologies in a way that answers this concern. The authors jointly recognize humans not as autonomous beings but as ones accountable to each other, to the world they live in, and to God. They argue that to question and critique how fields like cybernetics, nanotechnology, and genetics might affect our future is not anti-science, anti-industry, or anti-progress, but rather a way to promote human flourishing, common sense, and good stewardship. A synthetic work drawing on the thought of a physician, ethicists, and a theologian, Biotechnology and the Human Good reminds us that although technology is a powerful and often awe-inspiring tool, it is what lies in the heart and soul of who wields this tool that truly makes the difference in our world.

Author : Michele Goodwin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9780820559858

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With every new advancement in biotechnology, ethical and legal questions arise. Sometimes, those questions are easily addressed and settled. However, more often, these issues are not easily resolved and at times are left to the democratic process or markets to establish the boundaries of technological pioneering. In Biotechnology, Bioethics, and the Law, the authors canvass the broader fields, valleys, and pastures of biotechnology, providing mostly cases, but at times law review and medical journal articles to provide a comprehensive look at a given technology. Their goal is to encourage a critical engagement on the topics shared in the book, whether on cloning animals and plants for human consumption, drug regulation, or human reproduction and eugenics. Many of the cases contained in the book provide novel questions for judges. Some of these cases are the first impression for the courts, meaning that judges are attempting to learn the law in these new areas and develop its jurisprudence at the same time that the public -- or the reader -- are doing the same. As students read the cases, they are asked to consider whether they would reach the same conclusions as the courts. Are these issues better left to legislatures? Are markets the best forum for efficiently resolving biotechnological conundrums?

Author : Richard Sherlock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2002-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0742578755

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Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology; human genetics; gene therapy; human cloning; and stem cell research. A general introduction to both the moral philosophy and fundamentals of genetics is enhanced throughout the text with section-specific introductions addressing the particular philosophical and scientific challenges posed by the topic under consideration. Diagrams and drawings, study cases, liberal use of practical examples, and suggestions for further reading make the text an ideal resource for a broad range of students interested in issues and questions lying at the intersection of philosophy and genetics.

Author : Jonathan Morris (PhD.)
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biotechnology
ISBN : 0791085201

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Discusses the moral and ethical debates engendered by new advances in biotechnology.

Author : Rajmohan Joshi
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9788182053779

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The recent advances in the field of biotechnology have brought into focus several ethical and safety issues. The inventions in the field of genetic engineering and related fields of molecular biology will affect not only ourselves but the plants, microorganisms, animals and the entire environment and the way we practice agriculture, medicine and food processing. An increase in our ability to change life forms in recent years has given rise to the new science of bioethics . While anti-biotechnology activists are over rating the risks of biotechnology, it is time for the scientists to make a scientific and objective analysis of the social issues involved, and make it known to the public who will, otherwise, be carried away by the emotional rhetoric by the less informed but highly vocal section of the society. The present book discusses the biosafety and bioethical issues the modern society confronts. Topics such as biotech development, impact of biotechnology on biosafety, biotech products and ethical issues, governance of biosafety, environmentally responsible use of biotechnology, etc., are describe in detail. This book is destined to become an essential reading for students, teachers and professionals in all fields of life sciences.

Author : Anthony Dyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134874618

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The development of biotechnology has produced nothing short of a revolution, both in our capacity to manipulate living things from single plant cells to human nature itself, but also to manufacture brand new life forms. This power to shape and create forms of life has sometimes been described as the power to "play God" and this book is about the ethics of "playing God" in the field of biotechnology. International scholars cover moral dilemmas posed by biotechnology, from the smallest cells through animals to the engineering of human beings.

Author : Søren Holm
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781586034009

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Holm (Institute of Medicine, Law, and Bioethics, University of Manchester, UK) and Jonas (Center for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester) gather papers representing the work performed as part of the Empirical Methods in Bioethics project sponsored by the European Commission, DG-Research. The papers are mainly concerned with investiga.

Author : Gerald McKenny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108422802

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It is a comprehensive and critical study of the normative status of human nature in biotechnology from a Christian perspective.

Author : Gaymon Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 100010897X

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The essays collected in this volume provide students of ethics with essential tools for making sense of emerging biotechnical capacities and the turbulent power relations these capacities are bringing into the world. Unlike previous reference works in bioethics, which focus on specific domains of human activity (such as genetic research or biomedicine), this volume directs students’ attention to the underlying cultural and institutional forces that shape how biotechnologists approach the world, and teaches students how to weigh the ethical significance of these forces. This innovative approach to the ethics of biotechnology, detailed in the volume’s introduction, equips students to track the dynamic interplay of biology, digital technology and the high-tech economy which is remaking the living world today and the human relation to it.

Author : Barry R. Schaller
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0275999181

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Examines the influence of biotechnology and biomedicine on daily life and public policy, and discusses the legal system's involvement in the resolution of ethical concerns raced by biomedical advances.