Rodrigo Fernós

Biology and Ethics

Virtualbookworm 2018, 355 pp.

ISBN 978-1-949756-09-8

Introduction

Part I: Early Theories of Human Nature

Darwin and the Moral Sense

Is Human Nature Good or Evil? 

History of the Blank Slate

Herbert Spencer and social Darwinism

Eugenics 

Comparative and Legal Aspects of Bioethics 

Experimentation and Animals in Science 

Part II: The Moral Animal 

Introduction to Sociobiology 

Tit-for-tat and the origins of ethics 

Aristotle and Religion 

Galen and Violence in the Post Classical World

Naturalists and Colonial Violence 

Part III: On the Abuses of Biology 

Prisoners and the information game 

Minorities and the tragedy of invisibility

Fraud in Biotechnological Research 

Science and Democracy

Euthanasia 

Computers in Biology 

Conclusion