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  • Why Have Children?

    The Ethical Debate

    podle Christine Overall ...
    Série série Basic Bioethics
    A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more ... Přečtěte si více

    264,69 Kč

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  • Practical Ethics

    podle Peter Singer ...
    For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when ... Přečtěte si více

    736,69 Kč

  • Our Posthuman Future

    Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

    podle Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because "the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves," history as we knew it had reached its end. Ten years later, he revised his argument: we hadn't reached the end of history, he wrote, because we hadn't yet reached the end of science. Arguing that our greatest advances still to come will be in the life ... Přečtěte si více

    213,29 Kč

  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    podle Chris Shilling ...
    Série série Very Short Introductions
    The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. ... Přečtěte si více

    163,14 Kč

  • Debating Procreation

    Is It Wrong to Reproduce?

    Série série Debating Ethics
    While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that ... Přečtěte si více

    698,09 Kč

  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Upravil: Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Série série Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Přečtěte si více

    807,89 Kč

  • Our Posthuman Future

    Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

    podle Francis Fukuyama ...
    Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA technology over the last few years are the stuff of science fiction. It is now not only possible to clone human beings it is happening. For the first time since the creation of the earth four billion ... Přečtěte si více

    200,49 Kč

  • Xenofeminism

    podle Helen Hester ...
    Série série Theory Redux
    In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital revolution?These questions are addressed in this bold new book by Helen Hester, a founding member of the 'Laboria Cuboniks' collective that developed the ... Přečtěte si více

    216,89 Kč

  • Birthing a Mother

    The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

    podle Elly Teman ...
    Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global ... Přečtěte si více

    580,99 Kč

  • Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

    podle John Harris ...
    Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable and have often met with extreme hostility. But in Enhancing Evolution leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering stem-cell research designer babies ... Přečtěte si více

    410,89 Kč

  • Bird on an Ethics Wire

    Battles about Values in the Culture Wars

    Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret Somerville explores the values needed to maintain a world that reasonable people would want to live ... Přečtěte si více

    413,79 Kč

  • Understanding Abortion

    From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought

    podle Stephen D. Schwarz ...
    Books on abortion (other than collections of readings) typically express and defend a particular position. This book gives both sides, as evenly and objectively as possible; it gets to the heart of each position, the core idea which animates it. It then leaves the reader to make up his or her own mind. It is an introduction to the issue, not only to the basic positions on the issue. Despite being ... Přečtěte si více

    983,99 Kč