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Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 6th Edition
edited by Tom Beauchamp, LeRoy Walters    

Hardcover; 832 pages
ISBN 0534584411  
Wadsworth Publishing
Copyright 2003
Price: $105.95

 

This anthology represents all of the most important points of view on the most pressing topics in bioethics. 

Containing current essays and actual medical and legal cases written by outstanding scholars from around the globe, this book provides readers with diverse range of standpoints, including those of medical researchers and practitioners, legal exerts, and philosophers. New to this sixth edition:

  • New topics include human embryonic stem cell research and bioterrorism.
  • New essays provide the most current coverage of the Human Genome Project, Genetic Testing and Screening, Genetic Enhancement, and Human Gene Transfer Research.
  • Chapter 1, "Ethical Theory and Bioethics" has been revised to be more current with respect to contemporary ethical theory and debates about method in bioethics.
  • Considerable expansion and upgrading of materials on managed care and rationing.
  • Updated articles on the end of life and physician involvement in it.
  • Significant enhancement of the discussion of maternal-fetal relations.
  • Updated treatment of codes of ethics.
  • Additional coverage of animal research and animal welfare.
  • Chapters 2-5 have been reordered, with a keen sensitivity to the transitions between and within the chapters.
  • Biographical information about the authors of selections has been added.
  • The bibliographies have been carefully and comprehensively updated.
  • Most introductions have been substantially revised.
  • InfoTrac College Edition is automatically bundled FREE with every new copy of this text! InfoTrac College Edition is a world-class, online university library that offers the full text of articles from almost 4000 scholarly and popular publications-updated daily and going back as much as 22 years. Both adopters and their students receive unlimited access for four months.

Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He was born in Austin, Texas. He received graduate degrees from Yale University and The Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and in the mid-70s accepted a joint appointment at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 1976, he joined the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he wrote the bulk of The Belmont Report (1978). Dr. Beauchamp's research interests are in Hume and the history of modern philosophy and practical ethics, especially biomedical ethics and business ethics.

LeRoy Walters was born in Illinois and spent his elementary and secondary school years in Pennsylvania. He attended a small Pennsylvania liberal-arts college, Messiah College, receiving his B.A. in 1962. After finishing a B.D. degree at the Associated Mennonite Seminaries in 1965, Dr. Walters studied for two years in Germany, one year at the University of Heidelberg and one year at the Free University of Berlin. In 1967 Walters returned to the United States and began a Ph.D. program in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He finished his Ph.D. in Christian ethics in the spring of 1971. During the summer of 1971, Walters joined the newly-established Kennedy Institute of Ethics as the first faculty member appointed to a multi-year term. He has remained a member of the Kennedy Institute since 1971. In 1975, Dr. Walters received an appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1980 and the rank of Professor in 1993. In the latter year he was also named the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute. During the summer of 1996 Dr. Walters accepted a three-year term as Director of the Kennedy Institute.

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