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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.