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Автор: Udo Schüklenk
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is bioethics : an introduction / Ruth F. Chadwick, Udo Schüklenk.

      Other titles: This is philosophy (Series)

      Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2020. | Series: This is philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020029285 (print) | LCCN 2020029286 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118770740 (paperback) | ISBN 9781118770795 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781118770733 (epub)

      Subjects: MESH: Bioethical Issues | Bioethics

      Classification: LCC R724 (print) | LCC R724 (ebook) | NLM WB 60 | DDC 174.2–dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020029285 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020029286

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      Ruth F. Chadwick is Professor Emerita, Cardiff University and Visiting Professor, University of Leeds. She co‐edits the journal Bioethics and has served on numerous bodies including the Council of the Human Genome Organisation. She is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Hastings Center, New York, the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of Biology and the Learned Society of Wales.

      Udo Schüklenk holds the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University at Kingston, in Canada. He is a Joint Editor‐in‐Chief of the journal Bioethics. Born in Germany, his academic career has included teaching and research appointments in Australia, South Africa, and the UK.

      Jeff Dean, our then Commissioning Editor at Wiley‐Blackwell, suggested to one of us in 2014 to produce a bioethics introductory text. It’s always easier to agree to do a thing, then to actually do it, and so it took a ‘mere’ six years – on and off – to write this volume for you. Marissa Koors, Jeff Dean’s successor at Wiley, and Steven D. Hales, our long‐suffering series editor for the This is Philosophy series at Wiley‐Blackwell, showed an unusual degree of patience with us, our book, and our seemingly never‐ending delays. There is a German saying along the lines that a good thing takes time. You be the judge on This is Bioethics. Last but by no means least, we owe a great deal of gratitude to Nivetha Udayakumar, this book’s Production Editor, for a job very well done.

      Both of us have spent our academic careers in the field of bioethics, we jointly have been Editors of Bioethics, arguably the top philosophical bioethics journal, for more than two decades. Still, as we discovered, it’s one thing to successfully author and publish peer reviewed research content, and it’s quite another to write content specifically for introductory, and for teaching purposes. We deliberately did not review other bioethics textbooks to decide on what to include or not to include as far as the book’s content is concerned. This book reflects what we think a student of bioethics, who takes an introductory course, should – at a minimum – have read and thought about. Quite deliberately we kept the tone informal, aiming to strike a conversational tone. We also quite deliberately avoided technical jargon where that was possible. Some of the external reviewers of an earlier draft of this manuscript had mixed feelings about this. We hope it works for you!

      For any bioethics book you hopefully will – you should! – wonder where the authors ‘are coming from’, what their prior ethical commitments are, and to what extent those commitments influence the content you are reading. Scholars with religious commitments are likely to produce content and arguments that differ from those who are atheists, philosophical utilitarians will differ in their writings from philosophical deontologists, and so on and so forth. We were cognisant of this issue and tried to give views a fair shake, as it were, that we disagree with. We also included references to further reading written by authors whose views we do not necessarily share. Make use of that information, reflect on the arguments given, and form your own considered views.

      Ruth F. Chadwick

      Udo Schüklenk