Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
Series Editor(s): O. Carter Snead, University of Notre Dame
The purpose of the Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics series, sponsored by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, is to publish works that explore the ethical, cultural, and public questions arising from advances in biomedical technology, the practice of medicine, and the biosciences.
Paul Scherz explores the ethical challenges raised by precision medicine and its focus on medical risk as opposed to current disease.Genetic technologies and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing...
Bioethics after God explores the relationship between morality and medicine in a society that has denied the existence of God.Medicine and bioethics are going through profound changes in the Western...
For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul?Is there a shared nature common to all human beings? What essential qualities might define...
Today’s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is...
Disputes in Bioethics tackles some of the most debated questions in contemporary scholarship about the beginning and end of life. This collection of essays takes up questions about the dawn of human...
What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos
by Maureen L. Condic
Price: $45.00
Pub Date: February 2020
Format: Hardcover
Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents...
Edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. and Fabrice Jotterand
Price: $45.00
Pub Date: March 2008
Format: Paperback
Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to...
Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience
by Christopher Kaczor
Price: $30.00
Pub Date: May 2013
Format: Paperback
A Defense of Dignity argues that all human beings should be treated with respect and considers how this belief should be applied in controversial cases.
Edited by Edmund D. Pellegrino, Adam Schulman and Thomas W. Merrill
Price: $40.00
Pub Date: May 2009
Format: Paperback
Human Dignity and Bioethics explores a human dignity, a concept crucial to today’s discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular.
