Bioethics : a philosophical introduction /
Stephen Holland.
- vi, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Pt. 1: Moral status -- Stem cell therapy -- Xenotransplantation -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 2: Life, death, and killing -- The value of life -- What is death? -- Killing versus letting die -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 3: Personal identity -- Prenatal genetic intervention -- Advance directives -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 4: The normativity of the 'natural' -- Managing reproduction -- Genetic enhancement -- Human cloning -- Concluding remarks: Deontic constraints on biomedicine.
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Advance Directives--Ethics. Bioethics Genetics, Medical--Ethics. Death Ethical Analysis Animal Rights Cloning, Organism--Ethics Embryo Research --Ethics Embryo, Mammalian Euthanasia, Active--Ethics Euthanasia, Passive--Ethics Fetus Genetic Enhancement--Ethics Moral Obligations Personhood Reproductive Techniques, Assisted--Ethics Transplantation, Heterologous--Ethics Value of Life Stem Cells Ethics, Medical