This book, Bioethics, the Values of Life in the Age of Advancing Biosciences, addresses ethical issues and practices on the advances of biosciences by focusing on the need for balancing moral demands with modern developments in biotechnology, biomedicine, environmental sciences, and healthcare practices. It presents justifications for acting morally, the place of ethics in an age of advancing science, and the history, scope, and approaches of bioethics while offering a comparative account of traditional ethical theories and religious traditions, including specific details on the principles of Islamic ethics. Utilizing descriptive and comparative approaches, the text explores critical bioethical debates on genetically modified food, tissue engineering, environmental ethics, and the sharing of organs and tissues, alongside moral predicaments regarding contraception, the initiation of life, pro-life and pro-choice debates on abortion, infertility treatment, the ethics of parenthood, and the sanctity of life during clinical trials.
This book, Bioethics, the Values of Life in the Age of Advancing Biosciences, addresses ethical issues and practices on the advances of biosciences by focusing on the need for balancing moral demands with modern developments in biotechnology, biomedicine, environmental sciences, and healthcare practices. It presents justifications for acting morally, the place of ethics in an age of advancing science, and the history, scope, and approaches of bioethics while offering a comparative account of traditional ethical theories and religious traditions, including specific details on the principles of Islamic ethics. Utilizing descriptive and comparative approaches, the text explores critical bioethical debates on genetically modified food, tissue engineering, environmental ethics, and the sharing of organs and tissues, alongside moral predicaments regarding contraception, the initiation of life, pro-life and pro-choice debates on abortion, infertility treatment, the ethics of parenthood, and the sanctity of life during clinical trials.
