Global bioethics : building on the Leopold legacy / by Van Rensselaer Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Van Rensselaer, 1911-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Van Rensselaer Potter created and defined the term ""bioethics"" in 1970, to describe a new philosophy that sought to integrate biology, ecology, medicine, and human values. Bioethics is often linked to environmental ethics and stands in sharp contrast to biomedical ethics. Because of this confusion (and appropriation of the term in medicine), Potter chose to use the term ""Global Bioethics"" in 1988. Potter's definition of bioethics from Global Bioethics is, ""Biology combined with diverse humanistic knowledge forging a science that sets a system of medical and environmental

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Knowledge of Adaptation is Needed for Wisdom; 1. The Leopold Legacy; New Perspectives on the Leopold Legacy; Aldo Leopold's Neglected Legacy; A Leopold Primer; 2. Human Survival; The Cancer Analogy; Earth as Organism; The Issue of Survival; Survival Cannot Be Assumed; The Meaning of Survival; Kinds of Survival; 3. Dilemmas in Ecological Bioethics; From Knowledge to Wisdom; The Dollar Dilemma; 4. Two Kinds of Bioethics; The Matter of Nomenclature; Teaching Ethics in Higher Education; Ethics in a New Phase; Global Bioethics and the Feminine Viewpoint

5. Dilemmas in Medical BioethicsTeenage Pregnancy; Handicapped Newborns; Organ Transplantation Euthanasia; Euthanasia; The Secular Vision; 6. The Control of Human Fertility; Two Kinds of People; The San Antonio Connection; Clinical Applications: Infertility; Nonsurgical Methods of Contraception; Contraceptive Research; Pregnancy Termination; Planned Intervention in Population Change; Fertility-Regulating Methods; Social & Religious Correlates of Fertility; 7. Global Bioethics Defined; Human Health as the Global Bioethic; Medical Bioethics in Perspective; Ecological Bioethics in Perspective

Appendix 1: The Leopold HeritageThe Leopold Family Heritage; The Leopold Intellectual Heritage; Appendix 2: A Bioethical Creed for Individuals; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60917-288-4

OCLC:

774285423