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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Bioethics and Brains
A Disciplined and Principled Neuroethics
ISBN: 9780262549998
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 11, 2025
How neuroethics can be increasingly relevant and informative for inclusive social policy and political discourse about brain science and technologies.
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780262553421
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 26, 2024
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom
The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom
ISBN: 9780262551618
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
From a leading ethicist, a workable and inspiring model of ethics, showing not only why ethics matters but also how it can be used to improve human welfare.
Sex and the Planet
What Opt-In Reproduction Could Do for the Globe
ISBN: 9780262547987
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 28, 2024
What if human reproduction was always elective? A prominent bioethicist speculates about the possibilities—and the likely consequences.
New Methuselahs
The Ethics of Life Extension
ISBN: 9780262551564
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.
Inducing Immunity?
Justifying Immunization Policies in Times of Vaccine Hesitancy
ISBN: 9780262547796
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 26, 2024
Why immunization must be made mandatory in times of vaccine hesitancy, and how we can design and implement immunization policies in a practical, trustworthy, and democratic way.
Making Modern Medical Ethics
How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics
ISBN: 9780262547376
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 20, 2024
The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics.
May We Make the World?
Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature
ISBN: 9780262546980
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 19, 2023
An in-depth look at genetic alteration in the natural world and the oppositions to it, seen through the case study of a gene drive for malaria.
Re-Reasoning Ethics
The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
ISBN: 9780262549752
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.
Truly Human Enhancement
A Philosophical Defense of Limits
ISBN: 9780262549202
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.

Bioethics and Brains
A Disciplined and Principled Neuroethics
ISBN: 9780262549998
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 11, 2025
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780262553421
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 26, 2024
The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom
The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom
ISBN: 9780262551618
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
Sex and the Planet
What Opt-In Reproduction Could Do for the Globe
ISBN: 9780262547987
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 28, 2024
New Methuselahs
The Ethics of Life Extension
ISBN: 9780262551564
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Inducing Immunity?
Justifying Immunization Policies in Times of Vaccine Hesitancy
ISBN: 9780262547796
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 26, 2024
Making Modern Medical Ethics
How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics
ISBN: 9780262547376
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 20, 2024
May We Make the World?
Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature
ISBN: 9780262546980
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 19, 2023
Re-Reasoning Ethics
The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
ISBN: 9780262549752
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Truly Human Enhancement
A Philosophical Defense of Limits
ISBN: 9780262549202
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023