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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The ethical issues we face in healthcare, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries-they are global and cross-cultural in scope. Editors Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of an interdisciplinary, international team of experts in bioethics into a comprehensive, innovative and accessible book. It opens with theoretical frameworks that inform a Global Bioethics, followed by three units...
6) Double helix
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Zero K
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jeff's father, Ross, a billionaire in his sixties with a younger wife, Artis, with failing health, is the primary investor in a secret, remote compound where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until biomedical and technological advances can return them to a life of promise causing all three to examine their views on life and death"--
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease, [this book] traces Alzheimer's disease from its discovery and tells the story of the biomedical breakthroughs that may allow it to finally be prevented and treated by medicine. While it is a scathing indictment of our health care system, it is also an argument for how we can live with dementia; the ways patients can reclaim their autonomy and redefine their sense of...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
"Bioengineering has the potential to solve a range of urgent, global problems. Why Are We Making Glowing Bunnies!? introduces teen readers to the possibilities, dangers, and ethical issues involved in bioengineering"--
