New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science, Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792372492
• ISBN13: 9780792372493
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"