Today, advances in medicine and biotechnology occur at a rapid pace and have a profound impact on our lives. Mechanical devices can sustain an injured person's life indefinitely. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the body and brain can reveal disorders before symptoms appear. Genetic testing of embryos can predict whether people will have diseases earlier or later in life. It may even become possible to clone human beings. These and other developments raise difficult ethical questions. Biomedical Ethics is an engaging philosophical introduction to the most...

An accessible and engaging introduction to the philosophy of religion.

• Written with verve and clarity by a leading philosopher and contributor to the field
  
• Places key issues and debates in the philosophy of religion in their historical contexts, highlighting the conditions that led to the development of the field
  
• Addresses the core topics, among them the the existence of God, the problem of evil, death and the afterlife, and the problem of religious diversity
  
• Rich with argument, yet never obtrusive
  
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The fifth volume in the Fundamentals of Philosophy Series, Debating Sex and Gender by Georgia Warnke is a concise yet in-depth introduction to contemporary feminist thought on sex and gender. Featuring a lucid and accessible writing style, the book focuses on four historical debates: the relation and possible distinction between sex (biologically based) and gender (culturally based); questioning the binary (male-female) character of sex and gender; the idea of gender as a performance and as a performative; and the intersection of gender with race, class, and other features of...