Sociology

SummaryProviding an analysis of academic ethics, this text explores how ethics can be integrated into the university curriculum and what part particular cases should play in the teaching of ethics.Ethics and the University brings together two closely related topics, the practice of ethics in the university ("academic ethics") and the teaching of practical or applied ethics in the university.

SummaryUseful for understanding the complex issues - scientific, religious, ethical, and political - that fuel public debate about stem cell research, this book aims to bring together leading scientists, ethicists, political scientists, and doctors to explain this scientific development and explore its ramifications.

SummaryBarash addresses important topics including cloning, genetic modification of foods, metabolism of drugs, privacy, genes and behavior, and tissue banks in this thought-provoking book. She raises questions that most students will not have considered, e.g., the rightness of pursuing the Human Genome Project for possible medical benefits when millions of US citizens have no health insurance, and the most important ethical issues associated with animal cloning.

SummarySacred Cells? takes readers through the twists and turns of stem cell development, providing a brief history of the science and an overview of the competing ethical frameworks people use in approaching the heated debate. Each new scientific advance, from the cloning of Dolly the sheep to the use of engineered cells in humans, had to be carefully considered before proceeding. Rejecting the widely held belief that the ethics of stem cell research turn on the moral status of the embryo, the authors carefully weigh a diversity of ethical problems. Ultimately, they embrace stem cell research and the prospect of increased health and well being it offers. --from publisher description.

SummaryExamines stem cells from the scientific and social viewpoints, including what they are, their laboratory study, their use in medicine, the ethical issues involved, and the legal issues in American and Europe.

SummaryThis anthology focuses on whether using stem cells from human embryos for scientific research and clinical therapy is ethical.

SummaryContributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.

SummaryIs it permissible to use a human embryo in stem cell research, or in general as a means for the benefit of others? Acknowledging each embryo as an object of moral concern, Louis M. Guenin argues that it is morally permissible to decline intrauterine transfer of an embryo formed outside the body, and that from this permission and the duty of beneficence, there follows a consensus justification for using donated embryos in service of humanitarian ends.