Life Science Ethics (Record no. 113546)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789048187928
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-90-481-8792-8
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Classification number BJ1-1725
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Subject category code HPQ
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Subject category code PHI005000
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Classification number 170
Edition number 23
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Personal name Comstock, Gary L.
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Title Life Science Ethics
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Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Gary L. Comstock.
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Edition statement Second Edition.
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-- 2010.
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Extent XXIX, 482p.
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Formatted contents note Ethical Reasoning -- Ethics -- Religion -- Reasoning -- Method -- Life Science Ethics -- Environment -- Land -- Farms -- Food -- Biotechnology -- Genetically Modified Foods -- Animals in Agriculture -- Animals in Research -- Climate Change -- Nanotechnology -- Case Studies -- Environment: Marine Mammal Protection -- Land: Hybrid Corn -- Farms: Lost in the Maize -- Food: Edible Antibiotics in Food Crops -- Biotechnology: Trait Protection System -- Genetically Modified Foods: Golden Rice -- Animals in Agriculture: Beef, Milk, and Eggs -- Animals in Research: Enviropigs -- Climate Change: Coastal Dead Zones -- Nanotechnology: Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement.
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Summary, etc This second edition of Life Science Ethics includes four essays not found in the first edition: · Richard Haynes on “Animals in Research” · Stephen M. Gardiner on “Climate Change” · Christopher Kelty on “Nanotechnology” · Gary Comstock on “Genetically Modified Foods” and a revised and expanded version of the chapter on “Farms” in which Stephen Carpenter joins Charles Taliaferro as author. In addition, Part III has been thoroughly revised with the goal of focusing attention on salient examples. Three new case studies have been added: · Robert Streiffer and Sara Gavrell Ortiz on “Enviropigs” · Donald F. Boesch, et al. on “Coastal Dead Zones” · Deb Bennett-Woods on “Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement” The first edition was praised for providing instructors with a stimulating text that will help students hone their critical thinking skills. That text is here enhanced with treatments of critical new issues, including global warming, nanotechnology, and the possibility that bioengineering may be able to change human nature. The new edition includes classroom discussion questions for use in provoking and guiding in-class discussions. Part I introduces ethics, the relationship of religion to ethics, how we assess ethical arguments, and a method ethicists use to reason about ethical theories. Part II demonstrates the relevance of ethical reasoning to the environment, land, farms, food, biotechnology, genetically modified foods, animals in agriculture and research, climate change, and nanotechnology. Part III presents case studies for the topics found in Part II. Two appendices include exercises to help students learn systematic ways of thinking through ethical dilemmas and notes for instructors using the book as a text. "...cleverly designed...scholarly and readable...the approach should help capture the attention of today's undergraduates." - Agricultural Economics Gary L. Comstock is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, author of Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case against Agricultural Biotechnology (Kluwer, 2000), and Editor-in-chief of On the Human at the National Humanities Center.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy (General).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Technology
General subdivision Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agriculture.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life Sciences, general.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agriculture.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environment, general.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789048187911
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8792-8
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