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10%OFFAdam Briggle - A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council (ND Studies in Medical Ethics) - 9780268022211 - V9780268022211
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A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council (ND Studies in Medical Ethics)

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Description for A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council (ND Studies in Medical Ethics) Paperback. Series: Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.

Several presidents have created bioethics councils to advise their administrations on the importance, meaning and possible implementation or regulation of rapidly developing biomedical technologies. From 2001 to 2005, the President’s Council on Bioethics, created by President George W. Bush, was under the leadership of Leon Kass. The Kass Council, as it was known, undertook what Adam Briggle describes as a more rich understanding of its task than that of previous councils. The council sought to understand what it means to advance human flourishing at the intersection of philosophy, politics, science, and technology within a democratic society.

Briggle’s survey of ... Read more

A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council will attract students and scholars in bioethics and the fields of science, technology, and society, as well as those interested in the ethical and political dilemmas raised by modern science.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268022211
SKU
V9780268022211
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About Adam Briggle
Adam Briggle is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of North Texas.

Reviews for A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council (ND Studies in Medical Ethics)
“Adam Briggle has written a rich and sympathetic account of the President's Council on Bioethics led by Leon Kass. It puts in historical context the efforts of this council to move beyond the limited ‘instrumentalist’ approaches to bioethics taken by earlier commissions, toward a more philosophically serious effort to deliberate on the human goods put in play by modern biomedicine. ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council (ND Studies in Medical Ethics)


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