This Is Bioethics. Udo Schüklenk. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Udo Schüklenk
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
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isbn: 9781118770733
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chapter covering issues in research ethics (Chapter 7). The morality of animal experimentation4 has been debated controversially for many decades. There are also issues at the interface between species, such as xenotransplantation. You might also wonder why we are seemingly unconcerned about our natural environment5. Isn’t the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, for instance, an ethical problem? Well, we are not, strictly speaking, unconcerned, however, what is true is that we will focus in this book on environmental issues only insofar as they affect human health and human well‐being. Environmental ethicists have taken on the task of addressing challenging environmental ethics questions6. We shall by and large stay clear of those in this book. Our main focus in the remaining chapters of this book will be – broadly – on challenging ethical questions that arise frequently at the beginning and end of our lives, questions that arise in the context of clinical research involving human participants, the ability of genetic research findings to dramatically change who we are, as well as ethical challenges posed by population and global health issues.