Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I. Ethical reasoning. Ethics / Gary L. Comstock -- Religion / Gary L. Comstock -- Reasoning / Lilly-Marlene Russow -- Method / Gary L. Comstock -- Part II. Life science ethics. Environment / Lilly-Marlene Russow -- Land / Paul B. Thompson -- Farms / Charles Taliaferro and Stephen Carpenter -- Food / Hugh LaFollette and Larry May -- Biotechnology / Fred Gifford -- Genetically modified foods / Gary L. Comstock -- Animals in agriculture / Gary Varner -- Animals in research / Richard Haynes -- Climate change / Stephen M. Gardiner -- nanotechnology / Christopher M. Kelty -- Part III. Case studies. Environment : marine mammal protection / Donald J. Orth -- Land : hybrid corn / Jochum Wiersma ... [et al.] -- Farms : lost in the maize / Isabel Lopez-Calderon ... [et al.] -- Food : edible antibiotics in food crops / Mike Zeller ... [et al.] -- Biotechnology : trait protection system / Thomas Peterson and Bryony Bonning -- Genetically modified foods : golden rice / Kristen Hessler ... [et a.] -- Animals in agriculture : beef, milk, and eggs / Gary Varner -- Animals in research : enviropigs / Robert Streiffer and Sara Gavrell Ortiz -- Climate change : coastal dead zones / Donald F. Boesch ... [et al.] -- Nanotechnology : nanotechnology and human enhancement / Deb Benett-Woods.