TY - BOOK AU - Kurtz,Paul AU - Koepsell,David R. TI - Science and ethics: can science help us make wise moral judgments? SN - 9781591025375 (pbk. : acidfree paper) AV - Q175.35 .S346 2007 U1 - 170 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Amherst, N.Y. PB - Prometheus Books KW - Science KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Bioethical Issues KW - ethics KW - Ethik KW - swd KW - Naturwissenschaften KW - Aufsatzsammlung N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1; What is the relationship among science, reason, and ethics?; Paul Kurtz --; 2; The ethics of science and the science of ethics; Mario Bunge --; [pt]. 1; Bioethics and stem cell research --; 3; Stem cell research : an approach to bioethics based on scientific naturalism; Ronald A. Lindsay --; 4; Attack of the anti-cloners : biogenetic engineering and self-improvement; Arthur Caplan --; 5; Freedom of scientific research; Paul Kurtz --; 6; Stem cell research : the failure of bioethics; Don Marquis --; 7; Everybody must get cloned : ideological objections do not hold up; David J. Triggle --; [pt]. 2; The embryo in stem cell research and abortion --; 8; The moral status of the human embryo : the twinning argument; Berit Brogaard --; 9; Toward resolving the abortion and embryonic stem cell debates : a scientific and philosophical update; Richard T. Hull; and; Elaine M. Hull --; 10; Parallels between the ethics of embryonic stem cell research and abortion; Marin Gillis; [pt]. 3; Euthanasia and assisted suicide --; 11; The right to privacy; Paul Kurtz --; 12; Euthanasia, unnecessary suffering, and the proper aims of medicine; John Shook --; [pt]. 4; Organ transplants, sexuality, and human enhancement --; 13; Personal autonomy, organ sales, and the arguments from market coercion; James Stacey Taylor --; 14; Sex, medicine, and ethics : some quandaries; Vern L. Bullough --; 15; From human-racism to personhood : humanism after human nature; James Hughes --; [pt]. 5; Deterrence and capital punishment --; 16; Getting tough on crime : what does it mean?; Richard Taylor --; 17; Capital punishment and homicide : sociological realities and econometric illusions; Ted Goertzel --; [pt]. 6; Psychiatry and psychotherapy --; 18; Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry"; Thomas Szasz --; 19; What's the problem? : a response to secular humanism and scientific psychiatry; Derek Bolton --; 20; The assault on scientific mental health : ethical implications; Scott O. Lilienfeld --; 21; Fringe psychotherapies : the public at risk; Barry L. Beyerstein; [pt]. 7; Science, religion, and ethics --; 22; Science and religion : no irenics here; Fred Wilson --; 23; Is religion compatible with science and ethics? : a critique of Stephen Jay Gould's Two magisteria; Paul Kurtz --; 24; The science of ethics; Laura Purdy --; 25; Policy, ethics, belief, and morality; Tom Flynn --; [pt]. 8; Naturalistic ethics --; 26; Scientific naturalistic ethics : weird science and pseudo-ethics?; William A. Rottschaefer --; 27; On the naturalistic fallacy : a conceptual basis for evolutionary ethics; Christopher diCarlo; and; John Teehan --; [pt]. 9; Biology, social science, common sense --; 28; The common ground between science and morality : a biological perspective; Donald B. Calne --; 29; Carl Menger and exact theory in the social sciences; David R. Koepsell --; 30; Defending science, within reason : the critical common-sensist manifesto; Susan Haack UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015710759&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -