This Three Volumes Encyclopaedic Dictionary Of Bioethics Has Become A Monumental Work For Its Exhaustive Explanation Of More Than 100 Aspects Of Bioethics. The Entries In This Encyclopaedic Dictionary Is Not Only Deals With Medical Ethics, But It Is Also Includes The Moral, Social And Political Problems That Arise Out Of Biology And The Life Sciences. Bioethics Is The Multi-Disciplinary Study Of Ethical Problems Of Humanity Arising From Scientific Advances In Medicine And Technology Examined In The Light Of Moral Values And Principles. It Is The Study Of Ethical Issues That Arise Or Might Be Anticipated To Arise, In The Context Of Real Activities. While Medical And Other Health-Care Ethics Are A Major Component Of Bioethics, The Latter Is Now Widely Acknowledged To Extend Well Beyond Health Care Ethics To Include Not Only The Ethics Of Research In The Life Sciences But Also Environmental Ethics, Ethical Issues Of Sexuality, And Various Socio-Political Moral Issues. This Encyclopaedia Would Be An Ethical Asset For Medical Professionals And Other Bio-Scientists.

This 5 volume revision of the 1979 Dartmouth Medal-winner provides balanced, informative articles on the moral and ethical dimensions of modern medicine, science and technology.

Each vol. is divided into 2 parts 1st-7th ed.: Dictionary catalog and Classified catalog; 8th-9th ed. have 3rd. part: Directory of publishers.

The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with an eye as to how they might instruct us about the extremely lively disputes of our own contemporary medicine is such a natural one that it surprises us to real ize how very slow we have been to pursue it in a sustained way_ Ideologues have often seized on the very name of Hippocrates to close off debate about such matters as abortion and euthanasia - as if by appeal to a well-known and sacred authority that no informed person would care or dare to oppose_ And yet, beneath the polite fakery of such reference, we have deprived our selves of a familiarity with the genuinely 'unsimple' variety of Greek and Roman reflections on the great questions of medical ethics. The fascination of recovering those views surely depends on one stunning truism at least: humans sicken and die; they must be cared for by those who are socially endorsed to specialize in the task; and the changes in the rounds of human life are so much the same from ancient times to our own that the disputes and agreements of the past are remarkably similar to those of our own.