Product Description: In this important new book Gregory E. Pence looks at issues on the frontiers of medicine including gene therapy to produce 'brave new babies', cloning, human eggs and embryos for sale and experiments on human embryos. Pence argues that the conservatism of the medical establishment, the bioethics community, and the public at large has created shibboleths that impede improvements in our quality of life...read more

Product Description: This rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories and legal and ethical issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A medical ethicist offers a sober but ultimately encouraging assessment of the future of cloning, arguing ultimately that cloning will change the landscape of medicine and society in beneficial ways.

Product Description: For nearly 30 years, Gregory E. Pence's name has appeared in the by-lines of headlining newspaper articles in bioethics. Pence, one of America's pioneering bioethicists, has never been afraid to go his own way or stir up a little controversy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Food makes philosophers of us all. Death does the same . . . but death comes only once . . . and choices about food come many times each day. In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal questions of our time. This comprehensive collection addresses a broad range of subjects, including the meaning of food, moral analyses of vegetarianism and starvation, the safety and environmental risks of genetically modified food, issues of global food politics and the food industry, and the relationships among food, evolution, and human history. Will genetically modified food feed the poor or destroy the environment? Is it a threat to our health? Is the assumed healthfulness of organic food a myth or a reality? The answers to these and other questions are engagingly pursued in this substantive collection, the first of its kind to address the broad range of philosophical, sociological, political, scientific, and technological issues surrounding the ethics of food. (view table of contents)

The author takes readers deep into the heart of genetically engineered food revealing the depth of its influence on our lives, discussing corn, potatoes, squash, papaya, soybeans, and much more. (view table of contents)

A collection of articles by Stephen Jay Gould, Leon Kass, William Safire, Peter Steinfels, and other scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors on the ethics of human cloning (view table of contents)

Argues that there has been a rush to condemn human cloning, much like the early condemnation of in vitro fertilization, and suggests that human asexual reproduction could be regulated like gene therapy (view table of contents)

Product Description: After thirty years, Medical Ethics has matured to where a collection of core writings in the field is now possible. There is even a danger that some classic articles will cease to be known because they are no longer included in "issue of the moment" anthologies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of sixteen landmark cases in the recent history of medical ethics can be used on such courses as medical ethics, bioethics, nursing ethics, and ethics and contemporary issues. Offering a unique approach to the study of such issues as euthanasia, abortion, animal rights, in vitro fertilization, and AIDS testing, the book presents the clinical facts of famous cases, introduces the ethical dilemmas they present, and describes how different philosophers respond...read more