San Antonio College Library

Why eat with conscience? -- Factory farming : a holocaust in the animal kingdom -- The rotten roots of agribusiness -- Genetic engineering and biomedical research -- A sea of troubled warers : factory fishing and aquaculture -- Beware : You are what you eat -- Power of the plate : eating for a greener world -- Stopping the wasteland -- Change of conscience : actions and solutions.

"Bioethics beyond the Headlines is a down-to-earth primer. You will not find convoluted philosophical arguments in this volume. Rather, you will find a sampling of the key concepts and debates in bioethics, including euthanasia, assisted reproduction, cloning and stem cells, neuroscience, access to healthcare, and even research on animals and questions of environmental ethics - areas typically overlooked in general introductions to bioethics."--Jacket....

"At the outset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: "Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic 'enhancement, ' for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academic and industrial, new creators are confidently amassing their powers and quietly honing their skills, while on the street their evangelists are zealously prophesying...

Presents scientific evidence to support the authors' contention that animal experimentation has not led to any significant advances in the treatment of human disease; charges that the practice continues because of a faulty system of funding; and urges scientists, researchers, veterinarians, and physicians to speak out on the failure of animal experimentation as revealed in their own fields.

Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. The essays collected in this book, which include two previously unpublished pieces and a substantial introduction, tease out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subject them to scrutiny. The topics covered include human enhancement,...

In his latest book, renowned ethicist James F. Childress uses various metaphors and analogies to highlight the role of imagination in practical reasoning. Childress shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies illuminate moral problems and issues in science, medicine, and health care. The issues he considers include screening and testing for HIV infection, informed consent to and refusal of life-sustaining treatment, allocating scarce health care...

In this concise and accessible introductory text, Gómez-Lobo and Keown introduce a "human goods" approach to bioethics as an alternative to the dominant principle-based method in the field (best illustrated by Beauchamp and Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, OUP). Following Aristotle and the natural law tradition, the authors demonstrate how an emphasis on human goods--such as health, life, family, friendship, work and play, the experience...