Ethics, Law and Society: Volume III

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ISBN: 9780754671800 | 0754671801
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/28/2007

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This volume presents a selection of papers and commentaries on topics in bioethics, ethics and society, and business and professional ethics. Multidisciplinary in approach, the work will be a valuable resource for all those concerned with contemporary ethical issues..

Introduction, Søren Holm and Jennifer Gunning
Bioethics: On waving the embryos banner
Embryonic stem cell research and moral reasoning in recent reports from the USA, the Netherlands and France
Bioethics, procedural ethics, and misrepresentation in the stem cell debate
Ethical, legal and social issues related to cell therapy
Boy or girl: should parents be allowed to choose the sex of their children?
Bad science equals poor, not necessarily bad, ethics
Ethics and Society
Dignity and older Europeans
Guidelines for embryo donation for reproductive purposes in New Zealand: a child/family approach
Assisted reproduction and the welfare of the child
Body immortal
Masculinity, reproductivity and law
Being natural: an exploration of the natural in the writings of Hans Christian Andersen
Business and Professional Ethics
Genes for sale: ethical reflections on donors' proprietary rights in human genetic derivatives
4x4s cars and the city: what are the limits of vehicle manufacturer responsibility?
From 'Jim Crow' to 'John Doe': reparations, corporate liability and the limits of private law
A crisis of professional self-regulation: the example of the solicitors' profession
Commentaries
The national DNA database: why no public debate?
Can the cell nuclear replacement technique be used to overcome genetic disease?
The human condition and the pursuit of perfection in human reproduction
Drug testing and the use of healthy volunteers
The Assisted Dying Bill: 'death tourism' and European law
Could do better? Hegemony and freedom in cyberspace
Treatment in time of sudden infectious pandemic: the need for a proactive, practical, proportionate, prophylactic; ethical response to the threat of pandemic influenza
Toy stories, horror stories and fairy tales
Herceptin in the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer
End of life decision-making: the implications of the Court of Appeal decision in Burke v General Medical Council
Does nanotechnology require a new 'nanoethics'?
Medically assisted procreation in Italy: the referendum and the Roman Catholic Church
From fridge mountains to food mountains? Tackling the UK food waste problem
A gain for autonomy and reproductive choice: the issue of 'saviour siblings' resolved
Human rights and gypsies: it is time for a rethink
Forgetting to be nice: the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's preliminary recommendations concerning drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
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