Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond

by Cathy Gere

How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plotted as part of such a calculation?

These are questions that have bedeviled scientists, doctors, and ethicists for decades, and in Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good, Cathy Gere presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022650185X
• ISBN13: 9780226501857
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"