Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences - Softcover

Mepham, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199267154 ISBN 13: 9780199267156

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences offers a fresh, balanced introduction to bioethics ideal for students with no background in the subject. Opening with a section entitled "The Ethical Groundwork," it then discusses a broad range of bioethical issues relating to people, animals, and food. Presenting various perspectives on common themes, the book encourages students to question, evaluate, and form their own viewpoints. It incorporates useful pedagogical tools including self-assessment questions, topics for discussion, exercises, and references to recommended further reading and useful websites. A companion website features a web link library and additional sources of information.

About this title

About the Author:

Ben Mepham is Special Professor of Applied Bioethics and Director of the Center for Applied Bioethics at the University of Nottingham, England.

Review:

"The author has offered a textbook to the bioscience community. I think we need to seriously consider his offer. He clearly is well qualified by his international leadership in bioethics and decades of teaching the topic." --The Quarterly Review of Biology

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0199267154
• ISBN 13: 9780199267156
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402