Essential Information & explanations, latest texts & monographs on Bioethics.


Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics by Rita Charon

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues by Carol Levine

Double Helix by Nancy Werlin

The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (Basic Bioethics) by Suzanne Holland

On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge by Daisaku Ikeda

Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry by Karen Davis

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics by Leon R. Kass

Beginning Bioethics: A Text With Integrated Readings by Aaron Ridley

Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics by Leon R. Kass

Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions by Nancy N. Dubler

Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics by Leon R. Kass

Does God Need Our Help?: Cloning, Assisted Suicide, & Other Challenges in Bioethics (Vital Questions) by John Frederic Kilner

Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making (Social Institutions and Social Change) by David J. Rothman

The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy by Ronald M. Green

Cases in Bioethics: Selections from the Hastings Center Report by Bette-Jane Crigger


Bioethics

Bioethics concerns the relationships between biology, medicine, cybernetics, politics, law, ethics, philosophy, and theology. Disagreement exists about the proper scope for the application of ethical evaluation to questions involving biology. Some bioethicists would narrow ethical evaluation only to the morality of medical treatments or technological innovations, and the timing of medical treatment of humans. Other bioethicists would broaden the scope of ethical evaluation to include the morality of all actions that might help or harm organisms capable of feeling fear and pain. Many bioethicists are simply ideologues who disguise their politics as ethical discourse in order to mobilize support for their social conservative cause. Exploitation of popular anxieties about sexuality and reproduction has been central to the political project of the Christian Right in the United States, an effort intended to divert American public attention from other issues and to attract white, typically southern and midwestern, working class voters to the Republican Party. Bioethics issues include: Secular bioethicists focus on using philosophy to help analyze said concerns. Religious bioethicists have developed rules and guidelines on how to deal with these issues from within the viewpoint of their respective faiths. Some secular bioethicists are critical to the fact that these are usually religious scholars without a degree in biology or medicine related fields. Most religious bioethicists are Jewish or Christian scholars. However a small number of religious scholars from other religions have recently become involved in this field as well. Islamic clerics have begun to write on this topic. Muslim bioethicists include Abdulaziz Sachedina, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. There has been some criticism by liberal Muslims that only the more religiously conservative voices in Islam are being heard on this issue. Buddhist bioethicists have focused much of their concern on organ transplantation. See also: Medicine, Ethics Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 External links 2 Stem Cell Research Controversy 1 References (general) 1.1 Muslim bioethics 1.2 Jewish Bioethics 1.3 Christian bioethics External links Stem Cell Research Controversy References (general)
  • Thomas John. Where Religious and Secular Ethics Meet in Humane Health Care International, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1996.
  • Orr, Robert D. and Leigh B. Genesen. Requests for inappropriate treatment based on religious beliefs in Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 23, 1997. pp. 142-147.
  • Sloan, R.P., E. Bagiella and T. Powlell. Religion, spirituality, and medicine, The Lancet, 1999, 353(9153): 1-7.
Muslim bioethics
  • Al Khayat MH. Health and Islamic behaviour. In: El Gindy AR, editor. Health policy, ethics and human values: Islamic perspective Kuwait: Islamic Organization of Medical Sciences; 1995. p. 447-50.
  • Ebrahim, Abul Fadl Mohsin. Abortion, Birth Control and Surrogate Parenting. An Islamic Perspective Indianapolis, 1989
  • Esposito, John. Ed. Surrogate Motherhood in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • An Unholy Alliance: Muslims have diverse views on scientific ethics, yet only the conservatives are heard. And a Muslim-Vatican deal is not helping. Ehsan Masood, New Scientist Vol. 180, Issue 2419 (November 1, 2003).
Jewish Bioethics
  • Bleich, J. David. 1981. Judaism and Healing. New York: Ktav
  • Dorff, Elliot N. 1998. Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society
  • Feldman DM. Marital relations, birth control, and abortion in Jewish law. New York: Schocken Books; 1974
  • Freedman B. Duty and healing: foundations of a Jewish bioethic. New York: Routledge; 1999
  • Jakobovits I. Jewish medical ethics. New York: Bloch Publishing; 1959
  • Life & Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics, Ed. Aaron L. Mackler, JTS, 2000
  • Maibaum M. A "progressive" Jewish medical ethics: notes for an agenda. Journal of Reform Judaism 1986;33(3):27-33.
  • Rosner, Fred Modern medicine and Jewish ethics New York: Yeshiva University Press; 1986
  • Conservative Judaism Vol. 54(3), Spring 2002 (Contains a set of six articles on bioethics)
  • Zohar, Noam J. 1997. Alternatives in Jewish Bioethics. Albany: State University of New York Press
Christian bioethics

The above article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Recent related patents from USPTO:
5763435: Sulfate conjugates of ursodeoxycholic acid, and their beneficial use in inflammatory disorders
4706960: Fields of law and legal process card and board game apparatus


Bibliographic Resources
Updates and comments at Essential Facts blog
Are you interested in Feng Shui?
Price Theory Resources
World Class Photographers
Some philosophical movements
Top PDF and eBook Downloads

Interesting Links

Sports
Kitchen Knowledge
Hollywood Icons
Mythology
Philosophy
Politics
Retirement


Accounting & Finance
Automobiles
Marketing
Psychology
Academic Subjects
Ancient Greeks
Art & Design
Biology
Biology & Biologists
California
Cats & Dogs
Ethics
Legal Topics
Logic
The Greats
Architectural Dates & Places
* Mathematics & Mathematicians
Medical Update d06 More
Chromosomes and Genomics
Enginering Systems 1
Investments
Transportation
Mathematics
Brilliant Mathematicians
Classic Authors
Fear No Exams
Nexus
Characters & countries
Computers + 2
Science Plus
Science & Computers
Quantum Theory
Home, Site-Map



Note again ... some material here is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

©2004, All applicable rights reserved as appropriate.