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A Theory of Bioethics by David DeGrazia
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.65This volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health... -
Human Identity and Bioethics by David DeGrazia
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $33.89When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: what are the criteria for a person's continuing existence? When non-philosophers address personal identity, they... -
A Theory of Bioethics by David DeGrazia 9781316515839
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $101.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781316515839Author David DeGraziaFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge... -
Dialogues on Gun Control by David DeGrazia 9780367615307
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $45.09What happens when two intelligent American college students with different attitudes about guns launch into a careful exploration of the ethics of gun policy? What might a European exchange student... -
Human Identity and Bioethics by David DeGrazia 9780521825610
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $92.84When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: what are the criteria for a person's continuing existence? When non-philosophers address personal identity, they... -
Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction by David DeGrazia
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.14Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral... -
Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life by David DeGrazia 9780195389630
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $76.86The ethics of creating-or declining to create-human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of... -
Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life by David DeGrazia 9780190232443
RRP: $47.07Booksplease Price: $32.40The ethics of creating -- or declining to create -- human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of... -
Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status by David DeGrazia 9780521567602
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $55.47This book distinguishes itself from much of the polemical literature on these issues by offering the most judicious and well-balanced account yet available of animals' moral standing, and related... -
Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status by David DeGrazia 9780521561402
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $122.94This book distinguishes itself from much of the polemical literature on these issues by offering the most judicious and well-balanced account yet available of animals' moral standing, and related... -
Debating Gun Control: How Much Regulation Do We Need? by David DeGrazia 9780190251260
RRP: $44.49Booksplease Price: $32.57Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns. The United States leads all nations in rates of private gun ownership, yet stories of gun tragedies frequent the news, spurring calls for... -
Debating Gun Control: How Much Regulation Do We Need? by David DeGrazia 9780190251253
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $147.85Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns. The United States leads all nations in rates of private gun ownership, yet stories of gun tragedies frequent the news, spurring calls for... -
Ethics and Medical Decision-Making Michael Freeman 9781138629424
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $43.46This title was first published in 2001: Ethical thinking about medical decision-making has roots deep in history. This collection of contemporary essays by leading international scholars traces the... -
Animal Ethics: The Basics Tony Miligan 9780415739368
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.61Animal Ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in scientific research to the farming of animals for... -
Morals, Reason, and Animals by S. Sapontzis
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Criticizes the common belief that we are entitled to exploit animals for our benefit because they are not as rational as peopleCriticizes the common belief that we are entitled to exploit animals for... -
Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation by Emily Postan 9781108483742
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $108.09Increasing quantities of information about our health, bodies, and biological relationships are being generated by health technologies, research, and surveillance. This escalation presents challenges... -
Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University) 9781405160629
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17In this timely collection, some of the world's leading ethicists grapple with the variety of issues posed by human embryonic stem cell research. Investigates the moral status of the embryo... -
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life by Jeff McMahan 9780195079982
RRP: $190.28Booksplease Price: $145.36This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual is uncertain or controversial. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal... -
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics by Carl Elliott 9780822326465
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that,... -
Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction by David Shoemaker 9781551118826
Booksplease Price: $56.24The relationship between personal identity and ethics remains on of the most intriguing yet vexing issues in philosophy. It is commonplace to hold that moral responsibility for past actions requires... -
Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation by Tzachi Zamir
Booksplease Price: $93.22Many people think that animal liberation would require a fundamental transformation of basic beliefs. We would have to give up "speciesism" and start viewing animals as our equals, with rights and... -
Death and Dying: A Reader by Thomas A. Shannon 9780742531949
Booksplease Price: $43.65Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its... -
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $22.64Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must... -
Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions by Cass R. Sunstein 9780195305104
RRP: $35.46Booksplease Price: $26.06Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it... -
The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions by David Benatar
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $27.08Are human lives ultimately meaningless? Is our inevitable death bad? Would immortality be better? Should we hasten our deaths by taking our own lives in acts of suicide? Many people ask these big... -
Bioethics and the Human Goods: An Introduction to Natural Law Bioethics by Alfonso Gomez-Lobo 9781626161634
RRP: $34.19Booksplease Price: $32.35Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a "natural law" philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to... -
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life by Jeff McMahan 9780195169829
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $53.11This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity... -
Bioethics and the Human Goods: An Introduction to Natural Law Bioethics by Alfonso Gomez-Lobo 9781626162716
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $83.18Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a "natural law" philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to... -
In Defense of Gun Control by Hugh Lafollette 9780190873370
RRP: $40.62Booksplease Price: $27.97Nearly half of all privately owned firearms in the world are in American hands. The U.S. homicide rate is 6 times higher than the average of all developed countries, and more than three times higher...