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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Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780262553421
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 19, 2024
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
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.
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.
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780262553421
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 19, 2024
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
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.
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.