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Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics (Basic Bioethics) |  | Creators: Jonathan D. Moreno, Sam Berger, Harold Shapiro
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 308
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0262134888
Dewey Decimal Number: 174.2
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Publication Date: January 29, 2010
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Bioethics has become increasingly politicized over the past decade. Conservative voices dominated the debate at first, but the recent resurgence of progressivism and the application of its fundamental values (social justice, critical optimism, practical problem solving) to bioethical issues have helped correct this ideological imbalance. Progress in Bioethics is the first book to debate the meaning of progressive bioethics and to offer perspectives on the topic both from bioethicists who consider themselves progressive and from bioethicists who do not. It aims to begin a dialogue and to provide a foothold for readers interested in understanding the field.
The chapter authors--leading scholars in the field--discuss the meaning of progressive bioethics, the rise of conservative bioethics, the progressive stance toward biotechnology, the interplay of progressive bioethics and religion, and progressive approaches to such specific policy issues as bioethics commissions, stem cell research, and health-care reform.
The arrival of a new administration in 2009—one that is open to progressive ideas and rejects ideological interventions in science—makes this book and its new approach to bioethics relevant and timely.
Contributors: Sam Berger, Daniel Callahan, Arthur L. Caplan, R. Alta Charo, Marcy Darnovsky, John H. Evans, Kathryn Hinsch, James Hughes, Richard Lempert, William F. May, Eric M. Meslin, Jonathan D. Moreno, Michael Rugnetta, Paul Root Wolpe, Laurie Zoloth
Basic Bioethics series
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Excellent and Thought-Provoking Collection June 17, 2010
Kevin T. Keith (Brooklyn, NY United States)
This is a stimulating and timely collection of essays on the relationship between progressive political thought and contemporary bioethics, by a group of leading figures in the field. It addresses the nature of political progressivism and its relationship to bioethics, the intersection between bioethics and politics, both contemporary and in the past, and the landscape of contemporary policy and cultural debates in bioethics. The process of bioethics policy-making is also covered with insight by experienced players.
The contributors offer a range of perspectives on both progressivism and bioethics. There are distinct points of view on the stance progressives should adopt toward policy, political activism, technology, religion, and other issues that shape the field. Though collectively they exhibit a general compatibility of viewpoint, these essays offer competing visions of what constitutes "progressivism" and what that implies for any given point of controversy. The reader is ineluctably drawn to interrogate and engage with the perspectives offered, and in this way the volume creates a conversation, both among the authors and with the reader as well.
This volume will be a must-read for politically-engaged bioethicists and others interested in bioethics issues seen from a progressive perspective. It serves as a useful and provocative starting-point for debates over progressivism and its relationship to policymaking, and over the current state of bioethics and the political environment in which its debates are conducted. The content is uniformly sophisticated, insightful, and intriguing.
Strongly recommended.
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