Holland, Stephen

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

WB 60 / .H65 2003