Life Science Ethics by Gary Comstock
This second edition of Life Science Ethics includes four essays not found in the first edition: - Richard Haynes on Animals in Research - Stephen M. Gardiner on Climate Change - Christopher Kelty on Nanotechnology - Gary Comstock on Genetically Modified Foods and a revised and expanded version of the chapter on Farms in which Stephen Carpenter joins Charles Taliaferro as author. In addition, Part I has been thoroughly revised with the goal of focusing attention on salient examples. Three new case studies have been added: - Robert Streiffer and Sara Gavrell Ortiz on Enviropigs - Donald F. Boesch, et al. on Coastal Dead Zones - Deb Bennett-Woods on Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement The first edition was praised for providing instructors with a stimulating text that will help students hone their critical thinking skills. That text is here enhanced with treatments of critical new issues, including global warming, nanotechnology, and the possibility that bioengineering may be able to change human nature. The new edition includes classroom discussion questions for use in provoking and guiding in-class discussions. Part I introduces ethics, the relationship of religion to ethics, how we assess ethical arguments, and a method ethicists use to reason about ethical theories. Part I demonstrates the relevance of ethical reasoning to the environment, land, farms, food, biotechnology, genetically modified foods, animals in agriculture and research, climate change, and nanotechnology. Part I presents case studies for the topics found in Part I. Two appendices include exercises to help students learn systematic ways of thinking through ethical dilemmas and notes for instructors using the book as a text. .cleverly designed.scholarly and readable.the approach should help capture the attention of today's undergraduates. - Agricultural Economics Gary L. Comstock is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, author of Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case against Agricultural Biotechnology (Kluwer, 2000), and Editor-in-chief of On the Human at the National Humanities Center.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780813809533 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813809533 |
| Title | Life Science Ethics |
| Author | Gary Comstock |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Iowa State University Press |
| Year published | 2004-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 404 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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