Basic Bioethics
The Basic Bioethics series makes innovative works in bioethics available to a broad audience and introduces seminal scholarly manuscripts, state-of-the-art reference works, and textbooks. Topics engaged include the philosophy of medicine, advancing genetics and biotechnology, end-of-life care, health and social policy, and the empirical study of biomedical life. Interdisciplinary work is encouraged.
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Mental Patient
Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient's Perspective
ISBN: 9780262544313
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
A philosopher who has experienced psychosis argues that recovery requires regaining agency and autonomy within a therapeutic relationship based on mutual trust.
Ethics in Everyday Places
Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury
ISBN: 9780262546621
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.
Choosing Down Syndrome
Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies
ISBN: 9780262546249
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 9, 2022
An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.
The Case against Death
ISBN: 9780262543163
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 1, 2022
A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension.
Good Ethics and Bad Choices
The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics
ISBN: 9780262542487
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2021
An analysis of how findings in behavioral economics challenge fundamental assumptions of medical ethics, integrating the latest research in both fields.
Vaccination Ethics and Policy
An Introduction with Readings
ISBN: 9780262544122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2021
A comprehensive overview of important and contested issues in vaccination ethics and policy by experts from history, science, policy, law, and ethics.
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution
ISBN: 9780262043083
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2019
A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism.
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
ISBN: 9780262534598
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 14, 2017
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
New Methuselahs
The Ethics of Life Extension
ISBN: 9780262038133
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 31, 2018
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.
Re-Reasoning Ethics
The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
ISBN: 9780262037693
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 4, 2018
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.
Mental Patient
Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient's Perspective
ISBN: 9780262544313
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
A philosopher who has experienced psychosis argues that recovery requires regaining agency and autonomy within a therapeutic relationship based on mutual trust.
Ethics in Everyday Places
Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury
ISBN: 9780262546621
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.
Choosing Down Syndrome
Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies
ISBN: 9780262546249
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 9, 2022
An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.
The Case against Death
ISBN: 9780262543163
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 1, 2022
A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension.
Good Ethics and Bad Choices
The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics
ISBN: 9780262542487
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2021
An analysis of how findings in behavioral economics challenge fundamental assumptions of medical ethics, integrating the latest research in both fields.
Vaccination Ethics and Policy
An Introduction with Readings
ISBN: 9780262544122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2021
A comprehensive overview of important and contested issues in vaccination ethics and policy by experts from history, science, policy, law, and ethics.
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution
ISBN: 9780262043083
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2019
A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism.
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
ISBN: 9780262534598
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 14, 2017
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
New Methuselahs
The Ethics of Life Extension
ISBN: 9780262038133
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 31, 2018
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.
Re-Reasoning Ethics
The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
ISBN: 9780262037693
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 4, 2018
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.