Ethicists differ considerably in their reasons for using empirical data. This paper presents a
brief overview of four traditional approaches to the use of empirical data:“the prescriptive …

This article discusses the relation between empirical and normative approaches in bioethics.
The issue of dwarf tossing, while admittedly unusual, is chosen as a point of departure …

This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized
individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community …

In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal
relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by …

ITH hastening pace, bioethics in America is moving in manifold ways to deal with serious
problems in its modus operandi. These problems have become so well known they are by …

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading
textbook has been widely acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available. It …

This article seeks to establish that the social sciences have an important contribution to
make to the study of ethics. The discussion is framed around three questions:(i) what …

It seems like every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific
innovation. Human genetic engineering, stem cell research, face transplantation, synthetic …

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities,
has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing …

This analysis of the law's approach to healthcare decision-making critiques its liberal
foundations in respect of three categories of people: adults with capacity, adults without …