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A companion to bioethics

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Blackwell Publishing Limited 4 views
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0631197370, 9780631197379
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Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favor of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global poor.

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Since the 1960s ethical problems in health care and the biomedical sciences have gripped the public consciousness in unprecedented ways...

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Provides a good introduction to the whole of the discipline, from discussions about the relationship between bioethics and law, culture, gender, or religion, to a survey of the different approaches available in ethical theory. Helga Kuhse, Monash University, Australia. Peter Singer, Princeton University, USA.

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