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Books by Robert Wachbroit
  | | The Internet in Public Life(Updated) (Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies) by Verna V. Gehring, Contributor Peter Levine Md, Contributor-Robert Wachbroit, Lucas D. Introna, Professor Helen Nissenbaum, Contributor-Helen Nissenbaum, Professor Thomas C. Hilde, Eric M. Uslaner, William A. Galston Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2004 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4233-4, ISBN: 0-7425-4233-5 "The spread of new information and communications technologies during the past two decades has helped reshape civic associations, political communities, and global relations. In the midst of the information revolution, we find that the speed of this technology-driven change has outpaced our understanding of its social and ethical effects. The moral dimensions of this new technology and its effects on social bonds need to be questioned an ..." |
 | | Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal(Updated) by Contributor-Judith Lichtenberg, Contributor-Mark Sagoff, Contributor-Robert Wachbroit, Contributor-David Wasserman, Contributor-Xiaorong Li, Contributor-Robert Wuthnow, Robert K. Fullinwider, David A. Crocker, Jean L. Cohen, Benjamin R. Barber, Fredrick C. Harris, Kathleen D. Mccarthy, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Xiaorong Li Dr, Loren E. Lomasky, William A. Schambra, Steven Rathgeb Smith, Kathryn Kish Sklar, William M. Sullivan, Wasserman/Sagoff/Ful, Contributor-Kathl Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1999 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-9356-6, ISBN: 0-8476-9356-2 "Civil society is receiving renewed attention from academics, politicians, journalists, community leaders, and participants in the voluntary sector. Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal brings together several of AmericaOs leading scholars_of history, sociology, political science, and philosophy_to explore the meaning of civil society, its positive and negative effects, its relation to government, and its contribution to democracy ..." |
 | | Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal(Updated) by Contributor-Judith Lichtenberg, Contributor-Mark Sagoff, Contributor-Robert Wachbroit, Contributor-David Wasserman, Contributor-Robert Wuthnow, Contributor-Xiaorong Li, Robert K. Fullinwider, Jean L. Cohen, David A. Crocker, Kathleen D. Mccarthy, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Xiaorong Li Dr, Benjamin R. Barber, Fredrick C. Harris, Loren E. Lomasky, William A. Schambra, Steven Rathgeb Smith, Kathryn Kish Sklar, William M. Sullivan, Contributor-Kathl Hardcover, 442 Pages, Published 1999 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-9355-9, ISBN: 0-8476-9355-4 "Civil society is receiving renewed attention from academics, politicians, journalists, community leaders, and participants in the voluntary sector. Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal brings together several of America s leading scholars of history, sociology, political science, and philosophy to explore the meaning of civil society, its positive and negative effects, its relation to government, and its contribution to democracy ..." |
 | | Ethical Issues in Biotechnology(Updated) by Richard Sherlock, Miguel Altieri, Joyce D'silva, Ron Epstein, Mira Fong, Jean Halloran, Michael Hansen, Heta Hayry, Bette Hillman, A. Holland, Ronnie Cummings, Andrew Linzey, John D. Morrey, Martina Mcgloughlin, Miriam Mcgillis, Professor Nicholas Agar, Professor Carl Cohen, Leon R. Kass, H. T. Englehardt, R. G. Frey, Professor Paul Thompson, Julie Palmer, Steven Palumbi, J. R. Ravetz, B. E. Rollin, Peter Rosset, Harold Vanderpool, Allen Verhey, Robert Wachbroit, Madison Powers, Rosamond Rhodes, Leroy Walters, Nicholas Agar, Eds, Leon Kass, Carl Cohen, Development, Wm H. Thornton, Frey/Sherlock/Morrey, Prof Richard Sherlock, Americans For Resea, For The... Paperback, 664 Pages, Published 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-1377-8, ISBN: 0-7425-1377-7 "Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology; human genetics; gene therapy; human cl ..." |
 | | The Internet in Public Life (Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies) by Verna V. Gehring, Peter Levine, Helen Nissenbaum, Robert Wachbroit, Thomas C. Hilde, Lucas D. Introna, William A. Galston, Eric M. Uslaner Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2004 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4234-1, ISBN: 0-7425-4234-3 "The spread of new information and communications technologies during the past two decades has helped reshape civic associations, political communities, and global relations. In the midst of the information revolution, we find that the speed of this technology-driven change has outpaced our understanding of its social and ethical effects. The moral dimensions of this new technology and its effects on social bonds need to be questioned an ..." |
 | | Genetic Prospects(Updated) Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics, and Public Policy (Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies) by Mark Sagoff, Deborah Hellman, Sara Goering, Robert Wachbroit, Verna V. Gehring, Harold W. Baillie, William A. Galston, David T. Wasserman, Richard M. Zaner, Paul B. Thompson, Sagoff/Thompson/Gals Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-3335-6, ISBN: 0-7425-3335-2 "While the collapse of the Soviet Union has diminished the force of George Orwell's 1984, the other great dystopian tract of the twentieth century, Alduous Huxley's Brave New World, is timelier than ever. The ongoing process of genetic science may well revolutionize medicine and human reproduction, and it may end by giving us the ability to transform the human species itself. This new power has raised hopes that we will solve a range of ..." |
 | | Genetics and Criminal Behavior by David Wasserman, Robert Wachbroit Printed Access Code, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-139-17316-2, ISBN: 1-139-17316-2 "In this 2001 volume a group of leading philosophers address some of the basic conceptual, methodological and ethical issues raised by genetic research into criminal behavior. The essays explore the complexities of tracing any genetic influence on criminal, violent or antisocial behavior; the varieties of interpretations to which evidence of such influences is subject; and the relevance of such influences to the moral and legal appraisal ..." |
 | | Quality of Life and Human Difference Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability by David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach, Robert Wachbroit Published 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1-280-41557-9, ISBN: 1-280-41557-6 |
 | | Genetic Prospects(Updated) Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics, and Public Policy (Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies) by Verna V. Gehring, Harold W. Baillie, William A. Galston, Sara Goering, Deborah Hellman, Mark Sagoff, Robert Wachbroit, David T. Wasserman, Richard M. Zaner, Paul B. Thompson Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-3334-9, ISBN: 0-7425-3334-4 "While the collapse of the Soviet Union has diminished the force of George Orwell's 1984, the other great dystopian tract of the twentieth century, Alduous Huxley's Brave New World, is timelier than ever. The ongoing process of genetic science may well revolutionize medicine and human reproduction, and it may end by giving us the ability to transform the human species itself. This new power has raised hopes that we will solve a range of ..." |
 | | Genetics and Criminal Behavior(1st Edition) (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by David Wasserman, Robert Wachbroit, Douglas Maclean Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2001 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-62728-3, ISBN: 0-521-62728-1 "This volume brings together a group of essays by leading philosophers of science, ethicists, and legal scholars, commissioned for an important and controversial conference on genetics and crime. The essays address basic conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues raised by genetic research on criminal behavior but largely ignored in the public debate. They explore the complexities in tracing any genetic influence on criminal, viole ..." |
 | | Edited by Wasserman & Wachbroit. . CUP. 2002.(1st Edition) by David Wasserman, Robert Wachbroit, Robert Samuel Wachbroit Hardcover, 348 Pages, Published 2002 by Cambridge Univ. Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-62214-1, ISBN: 0-521-62214-X "This volume brings together a group of essays by leading philosophers of science, ethicists, and legal scholars, commissioned for an important and controversial conference on genetics and crime. The essays address basic conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues raised by genetic research on criminal behavior but largely ignored in the public debate. They explore the complexities in tracing any genetic influence on criminal, violent ..." |
 | | Quality of Life and Human Difference(1st Edition) Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach, Robert Wachbroit, Robert Samuel Wachbroit, Jerome Edmund Bickenbach Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-83201-4, ISBN: 0-521-83201-2 "The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, ..." |
 | | Quality of Life and Human Difference(1st Edition) Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach, Robert Samuel Wachbroit Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-53971-5, ISBN: 0-521-53971-4 "The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, ..." |