Future Bioethics by Ronald A Lindsay
After describing in detail the proper way to approach and resolve a dispute in bioethics, Lindsay proceeds to analyze several different cutting-edge issues. Through his insightful analysis, Lindsay demonstrates how to achieve pragmatic, progressive solutions to these controversies.
Bioethical debate has seldom been more vibrant, or more importantFrom discussions about abortion to end of life, bioethicists are there. Ronald Lindsay, a lawyer with a doctorate in bioethics, is particularly well placed to bring his voice to the arena in his new book, Future Bioethics. Discussions often begin from controversial positions that are entrenched in dogma. Lindsay's mission is to expose and debunk these myths. He does so in a book that is readable rather than obscure, and accessible to the interested lay person as well as to scholars in the field. Lindsay throws a number of powerful punches. Each chapter is richly informed by factual and theoretical discussion and approached in the common-sense way that Lindsay recommends. His use of practical examples to point out inconsistencies in arguments is vivid and gives the non-expert reader insight into these issues. Overall, in his readable, reasoned and accessible book that challenges the taboos of bioethics, Lindsay achieves what he set out to do. --Nature, International Weekly Journal of Science, October 23, 2008 Issues such as assistance in dying, genetic engineering, and embryonic stem cell research evoke a lot of instinctive reactions that often lack factual support. Lindsay, a bioethicist, provides an insightful analysis on how to achieve pragmatic solutions to these issues. --Bookviews.com, November 2008 Future Bioethics would be useful as a supplemental reading for students in health care fields. Highly recommended. -- Choice, February 1, 2009
Ronald A. Lindsay is president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry and of its affiliates, the Council for Secular Humanism and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He has a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University, with a concentration in bioethics, and a JD from the University of Virginia. He is the author of the essay Euthanasia in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics and of the book Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781591026242 |
| ISBN 10 | 1591026245 |
| Title | Future Bioethics |
| Author | Ronald A Lindsay |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Prometheus Books |
| Year published | 2008-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 313 |
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