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Global Bioethics : Building on the Leopold Legacy.
Title:
Global Bioethics : Building on the Leopold Legacy.
Author:
Van Rensselaer, Potter.
ISBN:
9781609172886
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Knowledge of Adaptation is Needed for Wisdom -- 1. The Leopold Legacy -- New Perspectives on the Leopold Legacy -- Aldo Leopold's Neglected Legacy -- A Leopold Primer -- 2. Human Survival -- The Cancer Analogy -- Earth as Organism -- The Issue of Survival -- Survival Cannot Be Assumed -- The Meaning of Survival -- Kinds of Survival -- 3. Dilemmas in Ecological Bioethics -- From Knowledge to Wisdom -- The Dollar Dilemma -- 4. Two Kinds of Bioethics -- The Matter of Nomenclature -- Teaching Ethics in Higher Education -- Ethics in a New Phase -- Global Bioethics and the Feminine Viewpoint -- 5. Dilemmas in Medical Bioethics -- Teenage Pregnancy -- Handicapped Newborns -- Organ Transplantation Euthanasia -- Euthanasia -- The Secular Vision -- 6. The Control of Human Fertility -- Two Kinds of People -- The San Antonio Connection -- Clinical Applications: Infertility -- Nonsurgical Methods of Contraception -- Contraceptive Research -- Pregnancy Termination -- Planned Intervention in Population Change -- Fertility-Regulating Methods -- Social & Religious Correlates of Fertility -- 7. Global Bioethics Defined -- Human Health as the Global Bioethic -- Medical Bioethics in Perspective -- Ecological Bioethics in Perspective -- Appendix 1: The Leopold Heritage -- The Leopold Family Heritage -- The Leopold Intellectual Heritage -- Appendix 2: A Bioethical Creed for Individuals -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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