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Intervention in the Brain
The political and policy implications of recent developments in neuroscience, including new techniques in imaging and neurogenetics. New findings in neuroscience have given us …
Humanity Enhanced
An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices.Emerging biotechnologies that …
In Search of the Good
One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time. Daniel Callahan helped invent the field …
Specimen Science
Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in research using human biospecimens.Advances in medicine often depend on the effective …
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against …
Ebola's Message
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.The 2013-2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a …
Truly Human Enhancement
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.The transformative potential of …
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.This book discusses some …
Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine
Explores the philosophical and practical ethical implications of a definition of health as a state that allows us to reach our goals.Definitions of health and disease are of more …
The Censor's Hand
An argument that the system of boards that license human-subject research is so fundamentally misconceived that it inevitably does more harm than good.Medical and social progress …
Preterm Babies, Fetal Patients, and Childbearing Choices
Why preterm birth rates in the United States remain high even as access to prenatal care has improved and infant mortality has steadily dropped.The United States has one of the …