Bioethics / edited by Justin Oakley.
"Bioethics examines and challenges existing and future practices in health care, reproduction, genetics, biotechnology, and biomedical research. This volume includes many of the most important and influential articles that have set the agenda for key debates in bioethics or have changed the fac...
Saved in:
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2009]
|
| Series: | International library of essays in public and professional ethics.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Ethics in Clinical Practice
- 1. Bruce L. Miller / Autonomy and the Refusal of Lifesaving Treatment
- 2. David Degrazia / Value Theory and the Best Interests Standard
- 3. Onora O{Neill / Paternalism and Partial Autonomy
- 4. Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley / Informed Consent and Surgeons' Performance
- 6. John Hardwig / What about the Family?
- 7. Rebecca Dresser / Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy
- 8. Norman Daniels / Why Saying No to Patients in the United States is So Hard: Cost Containment, Justice, and Provider Autonomy
- Part II. Issues At the Outset of Life
- 9. Joseph Fletcher / Indicators of Humanhood: A Tentative Profile of Man
- 10. Stephen Buckle / Arguing from Potential
- 11. Jim Stone / Why Potentiality Matters
- 12. Rosalind Hursthouse / Virtue Theory and Abortion
- 13. Soren Holm / Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy
- 14. John Harris / “Goodbye Dolly?” The Ethics of Human Cloning
- Part III. Reproductive Ethics
- 15. Dena S. Davis / Genetic Dilemmas and the Child{s Right to an Open Future
- 16. Julian Savulescu / Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children
- 17. Michael J. Sandel / The Case Against Perfection
- 18. Stephen Wilkinson / The Exploitation Argument Against Commercial Surrogacy
- Part IV. End-of-Life Issues
- 19. Peter Singer / Presidential Address: Is the Sanctity of Life Ethic Terminally Ill?
- 20. Helga Kuhse / A Modern Myth. That Letting Die is not the Intentional Causation of Death: Some Reflections on the Trial and Acquittal of Dr Leonard Arthur
- 21. Margaret Pabst Battin / Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It
- 22. George J. Annas / “Culture of Life” Politics at the Bedside - the Case of Terri Schiavo
- 23. Jeff McMahan / Death and the Value of Life
- Part V. Professional Integrity and the Goals of Medicine
- 24. Larry R. Churchill / Reviving a Distinctive Medical Ethic
- 25. Leon R. Kass / Neither for Love nor Money: Why Doctors must not Kill
- 26. Franklin G. Miller and Howard Brody / Professional Integrity and Physician-Assisted Death
- 27. Jeffrey Blustein / Doing What the Patient Orders: Maintaining Integrity in the Doctor - Patient Relationship
- Part VI. Research Ethics
- 28. Benjamin Freedman / Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research
- 29. Philip Pettit / Instituting a Research Ethic: Chilling and Cautionary Tales
- 30. Martin Wilkinson and Andrew Moore / Inducement in Research
- 31. P. Lurie and S.M. Wolfe / Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries
- 32. Participants in the 2001 Conference on Ethical Aspects of Research in Developing Countries / Moral Standards for Research in Developing Countries: From “Reasonable Availability” to “Fair Benefits”
- Part VII. Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry
- 33. Thomas W. Pogge / Human Rights and Global Health: A Research Program
- 34. A. Schafer / Biomedical Conflicts of Interest: A Defence of the Sequestration Thesis - Learning from the Cases of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy
- 35. Carl Elliott / Pharma Buys a Conscience
- Part VIII. Bioethics and Public Policy
- 36. Daniel Wikler / Can We Learn from Eugenics?
- 37. Judith Jarvis Thomson / Abortion
- 38. Mary Warnock / Morality and the Law: Some Problems
- 39. Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson / Deliberating about Bioethics.