Bioethical issues remain front-page news, with debate continuing to rage over issues including genetic modification,
animal cloning, and "designer babies". With public opinion often driven by media speculation, how can
we ensure that informed decisions regarding key bioethical issues are made in a reasoned, objective way?
Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences offers a balanced, objective introduction to the field of bioethics,
ideal for any biosciences student who is new to the subject. With a focus on developing the students' power of
reasoning and judgment, the book presents different perspectives to common themes in an impartial way, fostering
debate and discussion.
The opening section, "The Ethical Groundwork", introduces students to the nature of bioethics and ethical
theory. The book goes on to lead students through a broad range of bioethical issues relating to people, animals,
and food, before concluding with an overview of bioethics in practice.
Table of Contents
1. The theoretical background to bioethics
1. The nature of bioethics
2. Theories of ethics
3. A framework for ethical analysis
2. Bioethics and human futures
3. The biology of poverty
5. Fertility and morality
6. Genomics, eugenics and integrity 3. Bioethics and animals
7. Human uses of animals
8. Experiments on animals
9. Animals and modern biotechnology
4. Bioethics, plants and the environment
10. The first generation of genetically modified crops
11. Dietary futures
12. Environmental sustainability
5. Bioethics in practice
13. Risk, precaution and trust
14. Politics and the biosciences
15. Bioethics in the laboratory
