This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clinical practice and policy-making. It provides a review of the major types of ethical theory that can be applied to medical and bio…
This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clinical practice and policy-making. It provides a review of the major types of ethical theory that can be applied to medical and bio…
Privacy is an unwieldy concept that has eluded an essentialised definition despite its centrality and importance in the body of bioethics. The compilation presented in this volume represents continuing discussions on the theme of privacy in the context of genetic information. It…
"If our history is defined by evolution, and our future shaped by our genes, is our reasoning driven only by biology or are we still free to make moral choices?" "Yes we are, says philosopher and ethicist Neil Levy in his new study. For although genetics and the DNA revolution m…
An old legend and a new legacy. - Human heredity and eugenics make their international debut. - The devil's directors at Dahlem. - The Munich pact. - The politics of professional talk. - Politicized pedagogy. - The international human genetics community faces Nazi Germany. - The…
'The Nazi Symbiosis' offers a nuanced account of the myriad ways human heredity and Nazi politics reinforced each other before and during the Third Reich. It questions whether the motives of German geneticists were much different from the compromises that are faced by researcher…
The Faustian bargain--in which an individual or group collaborates with an evil entity in order to obtain knowledge, power, or material gain--is perhaps best exemplified by the alliance between world-renowned human geneticists and the Nazi state. Under the swastika, German scien…
