Issues concerning patients' rights are at the center of bioethics, but the political basis for these rights has rarely been examined. In Bioethics in a Liberal

This book is an original discussion of contemporary issues in bioethics.

Questioning developments in human genetic research from the perspective of people with mental disabilities and their families, Reinders (ethics and mental disab

Written by a medical school professor trained in philosophy, this timely work tackles these questions from philosophical, historical, and social scientific stan

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses