Bioethics for scientists / edited by John Bryant ... et al. --John Wiley, 2002.-- (58.038/B615)

Contents

Contents:

1. Introduction to Ethics and Bioethics  3

2. The Public Evaluation of Science and Technology  19

3. Introduction to environmental Ethics  39

4. The Use of the Rainforest as a Test Case in Environmental Ethics  57

5. Environmental Ethics: Further Case-Studies  73

6. Human Use of Non-Human animals: a Biologist's View  85

7. Human Use of Non-Human animals: a Philosopher's Perspective  101

8. GM Crops and Food: a Scientific perspective  115

9. Questioning GM Foods  141

9. Questioning GM Foods  141

10. The Patenting of Genes for Agricultural Biotechnology  153

11. Crop biotechnology and Developing Countries  171

12. Starting Human Life: the New Reproductive Technologies  201

13. Genetic Information: Use and Abuse  233

14. Human Genetics and Genetic Enhancement  241

15. Patenting Human Genes: Ethical and Policy Issues  265

16. Cloning of animals and Humans  279

17. Dealing with Death: Euthanasia and Related Issues  297

18. Animal Experimentation in Biomedical Research  313