bioethics

A collection of articles that consider some of the major questions of bioethics, examining topics in the categories of animals, death and dying, environment, and fertility and reproduction.

Seventeen-year-old Jenna Angeline Fox wakes from a long coma with no memory of who she is, and is sent home with her mother and inexplicably hostile grandmother where hours of video recordings of her childhood help spark her memories and send her on a horrifying quest to learn what really happened to her.

Opposing viewpoints create a running debate on such issues as genetic engineering, organ transplants, reproductive technology, research on animals, and ethical guidelines in health care.

Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

Before he can start a life with Jenna, seventeen-year-old Locke, who was brought back to life in a newly bioengineered body after an accident destroyed his body 260 years ago, must do a favor for the resistance movement opposing the nightmarish medical technology.

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Friends Jenna, Locke, and Kara suffer a terrible accident that destroys their bodies, but their minds are preserved in a digital netherworld, allowing the friends to remain connected, until the day Jenna disappears, and then, decades later, Locke and Kara are given new bodies and discover everyone they knew and loved--except Jenna--are dead and gone.

Contains approximately 150 alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of terms and phrases involved in the bioethics/health care debates.

Discusses the scientific and technological innovations of genetic engineering and explores the ethical controversy surrounding the creation of life in the laboratory.

Examines how rapid progress in biology and biotechnology have impacted the eternal conflict over life and death, exploring the implications of these advances and how political, religious, and social groups are responding to them.