Bioethics Liberal Society

Max Charlesworth offers an original discussion of contemporary issues in bioethics. He begins from the view that a shared public consensus on core values is out of reach, because liberal societies contain religious, nonreligious, political and moral positions side by side.

From that position he concludes that ethical stances ought to be plural too. On this basis the book takes up questions about how life may end, about new reproductive technologies, and about the moral dilemmas they bring.

Readers of bioethics, philosophy and public policy, and anyone interested in how ethics works in a pluralist society, will find the book a clear and balanced read.

Edition note: published by Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13: 9780521449526.