商品簡介
Many food issues are represented in the 20 essays in this reader, including production, food-related illnesses, the impact of factory farming, biotechnology, and global hunger. Multiple viewpoints are presented in the excerpts and articles, ranging from an excerpt of Animal liberation by Peter Singer, to an FDA document on food safety downloaded from the Internet. Pence teaches philosophy at the U. of Alabama, Birmingham. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Gregory E. Pence is a medical ethicist with twenty years of experience reviewing significant cases in bioethics, and is professor in the School of Medicine and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama. Pence has contributed to theNew York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He is the author of Classical Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped Medical Ethics, 3rd edition (2000) and Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (1998).
