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This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorporates contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces written in response to specific ethical issues. The collection addresses issues arising in biomedical and medical ethics ranging from assisted reproductive technologies to the role of clinical ethics committees. It examines broader societal issues with particular emphasis on sustainability and the environment and also focuses on issues of human rights in current global contexts. The contributors collect responses to issues arising from high profile cases such as the legitimacy of war in Iraq to physician-related suicide. The volume will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and academics with an interest in ethics across a range of disciplines.

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'This provocative and wide ranging book will interest both readers well versed in the study of ethics and those new to the field. Some chapters give a different perspective on well discussed topics like consent to medical treatment. For example, should decisions sometimes be made by families, rather than by individuals; and how should one balance the protection of vulnerable children with their rights to be involved in making decisions that affect them? Other chapters focus on the ethics of contemporary issues like war crimes trials, research on the human genome and conservation of cultural materials. Some are particularly innovative, such as the ethics of umbilical cord cell banking, and the ethics of the toy industry. The book provides stimulating reading and a source for new ideas and scholarship.' Loane Skene, University of Melbourne, Australia 'This book is essential reading for anyone with interest in the broader area of ethics, law and society. The collection of papers covers a range of issues, likely to interest the expanding multidisciplinary readership. In providing a snapshot of current dilemmas and thinking the book embraces a more general, wide-ranging picture, which is likely to be of importance both as a knowledge-base, as point of departure for debate, and as a source of inspiration for future creative scholarship.' Linda Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Dr Jennifer Gunning is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society, Cardiff University, UK. She was the Coordinator of the EC BiomedII Project, Therapeutic Research in Assisted Conception and was a member of the Human Embryo and Fetus Working Group of the European Commission. Soren Holm is Chair of Bioethics at Cardiff University, and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society. Both have published widely on issues relating to bioethics. Contributors: Jennifer Gunning, Soren Holm, Henriette Roscam Abbing, Deirdre Madden, Matthias Kaiser, Yulia Egorova, Karen Birmingham, Michael Furmston, Andreas Hasman, Gerry Simpson, David Watkinson, Tom Macmillan, Shaila Seshia, Maire Messenger Davies, Philip Fennell, Kelechi A Kalu, Clem Henricson, Gillian Douglas, Elspeth Webb, Tony Newman, Donato Masciandro, Richard Moorhead, Elizabeth Dowler, David Archard, Steve Hogan, Dr Jiri Priban, Dr Sarah-Jane Richards, Julian Kinderlerer, Christian Lopez Silva, Joy Wingfield, Nicola Langlands, Phil Thomas, Jason Soderblom, Cathy Cobley, Dr Tom Sanders, Peter Wells.

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