Scratching the Surface of Bioethics (Value Inquiry Book Series, 144)

ISBN 10: 9042010061 / ISBN 13: 9789042010062

Published by Brill, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scratching the Surface of Bioethics (Value Inquiry Book Series, 144)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042010061
• ISBN 13: 9789042010062
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Is bioethics only about medicine and health care? Law? Philosophy? Social issues? No, on all accounts. It embraces all these and more. In this book, fifteen notable scholars from the North West of England critically explore the main approaches to bioethics―and make a scratch on its polished surface.

About the Author

Matti Häyry is Head of the Centre for Professional Ethics and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire. He has taught philosophy and bioethics in various Finnish Universities since 1985, and coordinated research projects in bioethics at the University of Helsinki. He has been a permanent adviser on bioethics to the Finnish National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health since 1991, and has participated in the work of legislative committees at the Finnish Ministries of Justice and Health. His publications include Critical Studies in Philosophical Medical Ethics (1990), Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics (1994), Playing God: Essays on Bioethics (2001), and many articles on bio-ethics and general philosophy in academic journals and edited collections.
Tuija Takala is Docent in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland and Visiting Academic at the University of Manchester. She has taught philosophy at the Universities of Helsinki and Kuopio in Finland. Her research interests include political philosophy and applied ethics, particularly bioethics. Her publications include Genes, Sense, and Sensibility: Philosophical Studies on the Ethics of Modern Biotechnologies (2000), and articles in Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.