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In the last three decades, bioethics has matured into a field of
study with several areas of concentration, including medical
ethics, environmental ethics and more recently, genetic ethics. For
reasons related to both the developmental history of the subject
and to the poignancy of the problems presented, most textbooks and
collections of essays have dealt with only a single area, medical
ethics. In fact, to many not in the field, the word bioethics has
become synonymous with medical ethics. The aim of this collection
of essays, entitled New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science, Ethics
and the Formation of Public Policy, is to enlarge this restrictive
vision of the field as it is usually studied at universities. By
combining essays relevant to medical ethics with companion essays
on environmental ethics and genetic ethics, the book emphasizes
similarities in the methods of analysis used in diverse bioethical
problems, whether dealing with genes, with people or the
environment. In this way, New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science,
Ethics and the Formation of Public Policy, hopes to contribute to
the intellectual unity of the subject and to suggest changes in the
way bioethics can be taught and studied at both the graduate and
undergraduate level.
In the last three decades, bioethics has matured into a field of
study with several areas of concentration, including medical
ethics, environmental ethics and more recently, genetic ethics. For
reasons related to both the developmental history of the subject
and to the poignancy of the problems presented, most textbooks and
collections of essays have dealt with only a single area, medical
ethics. In fact, to many not in the field, the word bioethics has
become synonymous with medical ethics. The aim of this collection
of essays, entitled New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science, Ethics
and the Formation of Public Policy, is to enlarge this restrictive
vision of the field as it is usually studied at universities. By
combining essays relevant to medical ethics with companion essays
on environmental ethics and genetic ethics, the book emphasizes
similarities in the methods of analysis used in diverse bioethical
problems, whether dealing with genes, with people or the
environment. In this way, New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science,
Ethics and the Formation of Public Policy, hopes to contribute to
the intellectual unity of the subject and to suggest changes in the
way bioethics can be taught and studied at both the graduate and
undergraduate level.
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