Science and ethics :  can science help us make wise moral judgments? / 
edited by Paul Kurtz with the assistance of David Koepsell. 
 - Amherst, N.Y. :  Prometheus Books,  2007. 
 - 359 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> What is the relationship among science, reason, and ethics? /  The ethics of science and the science of ethics /  Bioethics and stem cell research --  Stem cell research : an approach to bioethics based on scientific naturalism /  Attack of the anti-cloners : biogenetic engineering and self-improvement /  Freedom of scientific research /  Stem cell research : the failure of bioethics /  Everybody must get cloned : ideological objections do not hold up /  The embryo in stem cell research and abortion --  The moral status of the human embryo : the twinning argument /  Toward resolving the abortion and embryonic stem cell debates : a scientific and philosophical update /  Parallels between the ethics of embryonic stem cell research and abortion /  Paul Kurtz --  Mario Bunge --  Ronald A. Lindsay --  Arthur Caplan --  Paul Kurtz --  Don Marquis --  David J. Triggle --  Berit Brogaard --  Richard T. Hull  Elaine M. Hull --  Marin Gillis.  1.  2.  [pt]. 1.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  [pt]. 2.  8.  9.  and  10.  Euthanasia and assisted suicide --  The right to privacy /  Euthanasia, unnecessary suffering, and the proper aims of medicine /  Organ transplants, sexuality, and human enhancement --  Personal autonomy, organ sales, and the arguments from market coercion /  Sex, medicine, and ethics : some quandaries /  From human-racism to personhood : humanism after human nature /  Deterrence and capital punishment --  Getting tough on crime : what does it mean? /  Capital punishment and homicide : sociological realities and econometric illusions /  Psychiatry and psychotherapy --  Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry" /  What's the problem? : a response to secular humanism and scientific psychiatry /  The assault on scientific mental health : ethical implications /  Fringe psychotherapies : the public at risk /  Paul Kurtz --  John Shook --  James Stacey Taylor --  Vern L. Bullough --  James Hughes --  Richard Taylor --  Ted Goertzel --  Thomas Szasz --  Derek Bolton --  Scott O. Lilienfeld --  Barry L. Beyerstein.  [pt]. 3.  11.  12.  [pt]. 4.  13.  14.  15.  [pt]. 5.  16.  17.  [pt]. 6.  18.  19.  20.  21.  Science, religion, and ethics --  Science and religion : no irenics here /  Is religion compatible with science and ethics? : a critique of Stephen Jay Gould's Two magisteria /  The science of ethics /  Policy, ethics, belief, and morality /  Naturalistic ethics --  Scientific naturalistic ethics : weird science and pseudo-ethics? /  On the naturalistic fallacy : a conceptual basis for evolutionary ethics /  Biology, social science, common sense --  The common ground between science and morality : a biological perspective /  Carl Menger and exact theory in the social sciences /  Defending science, within reason : the critical common-sensist manifesto /  Fred Wilson --  Paul Kurtz --  Laura Purdy --  Tom Flynn --  William A. Rottschaefer --  Christopher diCarlo  John Teehan --  Donald B. Calne --  David R. Koepsell --  Susan Haack.  [pt]. 7.  22.  23.  24.  25.  [pt]. 8.  26.  27.  and  [pt]. 9.  28.  29.  30. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781591025375 (pbk. : acidfree paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011290477 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101515511  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Bioethical Issues.<br/>Science--ethics.<br/>Ethik.<br/>Naturwissenschaften.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q175.35  / .S346 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>170 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2009 K-739 WB 60  / S4152 2007