Bioscience ethics / Irina Pollard.

Discusses the new ways of communicating bioscience ethics, a new but internationally recognised term coined by the author in 1994.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Pollard, Irina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Human origins, natural selection and the evolution of ethics
  • Sex determination, brain sex and sexual behaviour
  • Inappropriate lifestyle and congenital disability in children: basic principles of growth, toxicology, teratogenesis and mutagenesis
  • Substance abuse and parenthood: biological mechanisms
  • bioethical responsibilities: Behavioral variables, biological consequences; Behavioral variables, bioethical challenges
  • Fertility awareness: the ovulatory method of birth control, ageing gametes and congenital malformation in children
  • Understanding child abuse and its biological consequences
  • The state of wellbeing: basic principles, coping strategies and individual mastery
  • The state of wellbing: on the end-of-life care and euthanasia
  • Current reproductive technologies: achievements and desired goals: Lifestyle, fertility and the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs); Assisted reproduction, genetic diversity and the biology of conservation
  • The recombinant DNA technologies: Genetic engineering and related technologies
  • biological perspective; The Human Genome and the Human Genome Diversity Projects
  • Stem cells, nuclear transfer and cloning technology
  • Human-dominated ecosystems: re-evaluating environmental priorities: Population growth and economic activity
  • are we overstraining our limits?; Understanding living cycles and anticipating environmental policies rather than relying on remedial measures
  • Human-dominated ecosystems: reclaiming the future for following generations: Self-destructive behaviour and overexploitation of the environment; Chemical exposure, sex determination and sexual behaviour
  • Human-dominated ecosystems: warfare = fitness enhancement or losing strategy?
  • Human-dominated ecosystems: reworking bioethical frontiers: Global responsibility
  • a transboundary détente to developmental needs and environmental preservation; Stewardship of Mother Earth
  • in defense of the global commons.