The Bioethics Revolution

From the mapping of the human genome to the distrust of American clinical research, from the cloning of barnyard animals to the prosecution of physicians for helping patients to die, debates surrounding bioethics are ubiquitous. All over the world, bioethical discussion, education, and debate have become the most important interface between theories about how the world should be and the practices that are changing human nature. In a time when health care practices and scientific research conjure a vision of scarce resources, high technology, and vast inequities, bioethics is among the most important and controversial areas of contemporary scholarly research.

Reaching Readers around the World and across Disciplines

Basic Bioethics, the exciting new interdisciplinary book series from The MIT Press, extends the reach of book-length scholarship in bioethics to a general audience. titles in the Basic Bioethics series represent a broad range of approaches to bioethics, all argued in the aggressive and inventive style for which The MIT Press has become known. Basic Bioethics comprises carefully crafted, peer-reviewed scholarship. More important, Basic Bioethics represents a fundamental recognition that for bioethics to make a truly global difference in science and ethics, it must reach a diverse international audience and offer real options and challenges to those whose work and lives are touched by the questions debated in bioethics.

Submissions

The series editors welcome proposals in the broadly construed area of bioethics. Books appropriate for this series include professional works on specific or interdisciplinary topics, textbooks at the introductory or advanced level, and trade monographs presenting sound scholarship that separates the science from the science fiction in this field. For additional information, or to submit proposals, please contact Clay Morgan at The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA, tel. 617-253-4113, fax 617-258-6779, email claym@mit.edu.

	Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility The New Language of Global Ethics and Biolaw Yechiel Michael Barilan A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw. Cloth / October 2012 Price $36.00 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
	In Search of the Good A Life in Bioethics Daniel Callahan One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time. Cloth / October 2012 Price $29.00 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
	Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children Timothy F. Murphy A critical review of the debate over the still-hypothetical possibility of prenatal intervention by parents to select the sexual orientation of their children. Cloth / September 2012 Price $27.00 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
	Thieves of Virtue When Bioethics Stole Medicine Tom Koch An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. Cloth / September 2012 Price $29.95 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
	The Ethics of Animal Research Exploring the Controversy Edited by Jeremy R. Garrett A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified. Cloth / April 2012 Price $54.00 | ADD TO CART
	The Ethics of Animal Research Exploring the Controversy Edited by Jeremy R. Garrett A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified. Paper / April 2012 Price $27.00 | ADD TO CART
	Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate Christine Overall A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified--and if so, how. Cloth / March 2012 Price $27.95 | ADD TO CART
	Progress in Bioethics Science, Policy, and Politics Edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger; Foreword by Harold Shapiro Leading scholars debate politically progressive perspectives on bioethics and the implications for society, politics, and science in the twenty-first century. Paper / March 2012 Price $15.00 | ADD TO CART
	Reframing Rights Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age Edited by Sheila Jasanoff Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement. Paper / September 2011 Price $25.00 | ADD TO CART
	Reframing Rights Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age Edited by Sheila Jasanoff Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement. Cloth / September 2011 Price $50.00 | ADD TO CART
	Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care An Institutional Compromise Holly Fernandez Lynch A balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience. Paper / September 2010 Price $17.00 | ADD TO CART
	Neuroethics An Introduction with Readings Edited by Martha J. Farah Explores the ethical, legal, and societal issues arising from brain imaging, psychopharmacology, and other new developments in neuroscience. Cloth / August 2010 Price $70.00 | ADD TO CART
	Neuroethics An Introduction with Readings Edited by Martha J. Farah Explores the ethical, legal, and societal issues arising from brain imaging, psychopharmacology, and other new developments in neuroscience. Paper / August 2010 Price $35.00 | ADD TO CART
	Pragmatic Neuroethics Improving Treatment and Understanding of the Mind-Brain Eric Racine A survey of the emerging field of neuroethics that calls for a multidisciplinary, pragmatic approach for tackling key issues and improving patient care. Cloth / July 2010 Price $29.00 | ADD TO CART
	Progress in Bioethics Science, Policy, and Politics Edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger; Foreword by Harold Shapiro Leading scholars debate politically progressive perspectives on bioethics and the implications for society, politics, and science in the twenty-first century. Cloth / January 2010 OUT OF PRINT
	Healing Psychiatry Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide David H. Brendel; Foreword by T.M. Luhrmann A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics. Paper / September 2009 Price $14.00 | ADD TO CART
	Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled Norman L. Cantor A legal and moral analysis of medical decision making on behalf of those with such severe cognitive impairments that they cannot exercise self-determination. Paper / August 2009 Price $18.00 | ADD TO CART
	The Ethics of Protocells Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory Edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke Experts explore the potential benefits, risks, and moral aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. Paper / May 2009 Price $29.00 | ADD TO CART
	The Ethics of Protocells Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory Edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke Experts explore the potential benefits, risks, and moral aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. Cloth / May 2009 Price $55.00 | ADD TO CART
	Genetics and Life Insurance Medical Underwriting and Social Policy Edited by Mark A. Rothstein Experts discuss the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of genetic testing in determining eligibility for life insurance. Paper / March 2009 Price $18.00 | ADD TO CART