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  • Kidney for Sale by Owner

    Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market

    by Mark J. Cherry ...
    If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded?Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Kidney for Sale by Owner, now with a new preface, ... Read more

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  • Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation

    Controversy and Contention

    Edited by James Stacey Taylor, Mark J. Cherry ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    This volume presents a comprehensive examination of one of bioethics’ most divisive debates: whether human organs should be bought and sold. It brings together diverse philosophical perspectives from leading scholars who explore the moral, political, and practical dimensions of organ markets.The volume addresses critical questions at the intersection of medicine, ethics, and economics:Would ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Bioethics after God

    Morality, Culture, and Medicine

    by Mark J. Cherry ...
    Series series Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
    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 world. Practices that prior generations would have recognized as morally impermissible, such as abortion, eugenics, and euthanasia, are becoming central components of modern health care. Bioethics ... Read more

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  • Sex, Family, and the Culture Wars

    Edited by Mark J. Cherry ...
    Extraordinary social and moral shifts have taken place in Western societies. Sex is no longer the exclusive province of husband and wife set within monogamous married family life. The world is awash in sex: advertising, books, magazines, movies, sex clubs, internet pornography, etc. Parents, traditionally responsible for guiding their children's moral and social development, have been effectively ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Ethical Issues in Cardiovascular Medicine

    Edited by David M. Zientek, Mark J. Cherry ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    This book provides an exploration of the ethics of cardiology practice. It provides a variety of frameworks for analyzing ethical issues that arise in cardiovascular medicine.Cardiovascular medicine—the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired diseases of the heart, major arteries, and veins—has seen rapid change in diagnosis, treatment, and the organization of practice in the last half ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sex Robots

    Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations

    Edited by Ruiping Fan, Mark J. Cherry ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides cross-cultural ethical exploration of sex robots and their social impact. What are the implications of sex robots and related technological innovations for society and culture? How should we evaluate the significance of sexual relations with robots that look like women, men or children? Critics argue that sex robots present a clear risk to real persons and a social degradation ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships

    Edited by Mark J. Cherry ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special moral concerns, such as permissible uses of the body, which have a long history of analysis. The ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics

    Edited by Mark J. Cherry ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural reason itself.This volume critically explores and assesses our contemporary culture wars in terms of: the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • At the Foundations of Bioethics and Biopolitics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

    Edited by Lisa M. Rasmussen, Mark J. Cherry, Ana Iltis ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume brings together a set of critical essays on the thought of Professor Doctor H. Tristram Engelhardt Junior, Co-Founding Editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series. Amongst the founders of bioethics, Professor Engelhardt, Jr. looms large. Many of his books and articles have appeared in multiple languages, including Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese. The essays in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics

    by Mark J. Cherry, John F. Peppin ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments. ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

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  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series 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. ... Read more

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