NEW AND RECENT TITLES IN BIOETHICS The MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu NEW NEW NEW Now Available in Paperback HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH REGULATION Perspectives on the Future edited by I. Glenn Cohen and Holly Fernandez Lynch RATIONING IS NOT A FOUR-LETTER WORD Setting Limits on Healthcare Philip M. Rosoff TRULY HUMAN ENHANCEMENT A Philosophical Defense of Limits Nicholas Agar THIEVES OF VIRTUE When Bioethics Stole Medicine Tom Koch A provocative argument that the best way to deliver high-quality healthcare to Americans is to institute a comprehensive and fair system of rationing. A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings. An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. 2014 • 336 pp. • 2 illus. • $34.00/£23.95 • 978-0-262-02749-6 Basic Bioethics series 2014 • 232 pp. • 4 illus. • $35.00/£24.95 • 978-0-262-02663-5 Basic Bioethics series NEW NEW HUMANITY ENHANCED Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies Russell Blackford THE POLITICS OF ADOPTION Gender and the Making of French Citizenship Bruno Perreau translated by Deke Dusinberre Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects. 2014 • 392 pp. • paper • $33.00/£22.95 978-0-262-52621-0 Cloth • $66.00/£45.95 • 978-0-262-02746-5 Basic Bioethics series NEW THE POLITICS OF INVISIBILITY Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl Olga Kuchinskaya Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible. 2014 • 248 pp. • 6 illus • $28.00/£19.95 • 978-0-262-02769-4 Infrastructures series NEW BEYOND VERSUS The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture James Tabery Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture. 2014 • 304 pp. • 26 illus. • $40.00/£27.95 • 978-0-262-02737-3 Life and Mind series An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices. An argument that French adoption policies reflect and enforce the state’s notions of gender, parenthood, and citizenship. 2014 • 248 pp. • $30.00/£20.95 • 978-0-262-02661-1 Basic Bioethics series 2014 • 264 pp. • $29.00/£19.95 • 978-0-262-02722-9 Basic Bioethics series NEW NEW GOOD SCIENCE The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research Charis Thompson SYNTHETIC AESTHETICS Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick, and Drew Endy An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research. 2014 • 360 pp. • $36.00/£24.95 • 978-0-262-02699-4 Inside Technology series As synthetic biology transforms living matter into a medium for making, what is the role of design and its associated values? 2014 • 384 pp. • 93 color, 41 b&w illus. • $34.95/£24.95 978-0-262-01999-6 2014 • 376 pp. • 29 illus. • paper • $19.95/£13.95 978-0-262-52678-4 (Cloth 2012) Basic Bioethics series Now Available in Paperback HUMAN DIGNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND RESPONSIBILITY The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw Yechiel Michael Barilan A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw. 2014 • 368 pp. • 11 illlus. • paper • $20.00/£13.95 978-0-262-52597-8 (Cloth 2012) Basic Bioethics series Now Available in Paperback ROBOT ETHICS The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and George A. Bekey Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war. 2014 • 400 pp. • 15 illus. • paper • $25.00/£17.95 978-0-262-52600-5 (Cloth 2011) Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series INTERVENTION IN THE BRAIN Politics, Policy, and Ethics Robert H. Blank ETHICS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND CHOICES ABOUT CHILDREN Timothy F. Murphy The political and policy implications of recent developments in neuroscience, including new techniques in imaging and neurogenetics. A critical review of the debate over the still-hypothetical possibility of prenatal intervention by parents to select the sexual orientation of their children. 2013 • 344 pp. • 3 illus. • $34.00/£23.95 • 978-0-262-01891-3 Basic Bioethics series 2012 • 200 pp. • $27.00/£18.95 • 978-0-262-01805-0 Basic Bioethics series SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND MORALITY Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray BETTER DOCTORS, BETTER PATIENTS, BETTER DECISIONS Envisioning Health Care 2020 edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and J. A. Muir Gray A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse. How eliminating “risk illiteracy” among doctors and patients will lead to better health care decision making. 2013 • 224 pp. • paper • $21.00/£14.95 • 978-0-262-51959-5 Basic Bioethics series 2013 • 416 pp. • paper • $21.00/£14.95 • 978-0-262-51852-9 (Cloth 2011) Strüngmann Forum Reports WHY HAVE CHILDREN? The Ethical Debate Christine Overall A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified — and if so, how. 2013 • 272 pp. • paper • $16.95/£11.95 • 978-0-262-52529-9 (Cloth 2012) Basic Bioethics series For further details about these and other MIT Press titles, please visit: mitpress.mit.edu Sign up for regular bulletins on new titles and MIT Press offers: mitpress.mit. edu/subscribe NEUROETHICS An Introduction with Readings edited by Martha J. Farah Explores the ethical, legal, and societal issues arising from brain imaging, psychopharmacology, and other new developments in neuroscience. 2010 • 400 pp. • paper • $37.00/£25.95 • 978-0-262-51460-6 Basic Bioethics series PRAGMATIC NEUROETHICS Improving Treatment and Understanding of the Mind-Brain Eric Racine A survey of the emerging field of neuroethics that calls for a multidisciplinary, pragmatic approach for tackling key issues and improving patient care. 2010 • 288 pp. • $29.00/£19.95 • 978-0-262-01419-9 Basic Bioethics series THE ETHICS OF ANIMAL RESEARCH Exploring the Controversy edited by Jeremy R. Garrett A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified. 2012 • 356 pp. • paper • $29.00/£19.95 • 978-0-262-51691-4 Basic Bioethics series REFRAMING RIGHTS Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age edited by Sheila Jasanoff Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement. Announcing 2011 • 320 pp. • 2 illus. • paper • $26.00/£17.95 978-0-262-51627-3 Basic Bioethics series IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD A Life in Bioethics Daniel Callahan One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time. 2012 • 232 pp. • $30.00/£20.95 • 978-0-262-01848-7 Basic Bioethics series PROGRESS IN BIOETHICS Science, Policy, and Politics edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger Foreword by Harold Shapiro Leading scholars debate politically progressive perspectives on bioethics and the implications for society, politics, and science in the twenty-first century. 2012 • 308 pp. • paper • $15.00/£10.95 • 978-0-262-51742-3 (Cloth 2010) Basic Bioethics series BIOETHICS IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA Joanna Zylinska An examination of ethical challenges that technology presents to the allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human and a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of alterity. 2009 • 248 pp. • $32.00/£22.95 • 978-0-262-24056-7 MIT Press BITS offer excerpts from influential MIT Press books in a variety of subjects. Readable on any screen—e-book reader, smart phone, tablet, and desktop or laptop computer—and DRMfree, MIT Press BITS allow readers to sample the cutting-edge content and groundbreaking scholarship for which MIT Press is known. 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