A Companion to Bioethics 2nd Edition by Helga Kuhse, ISBN-13: 978-1405163316
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- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd edition (October 19, 2009)
- Language: English
- 636 pages
- ISBN-10: 1405163313
- ISBN-13: 978-1405163316
This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.
A Companion to Bioethics presents the central issues and concepts in bioethics in an authoritative yet highly accessible manner. Now fully revised and updated to reflect the current state of the field, the 49 essays, all specially written by leading experts, span an unparalleled range of topics, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, health care, and teaching. Subjects new to this edition include cloning, genetic enhancement, infectious disease, global pharmaceutical markets, and bioethics in the developing world.
A Companion to Bioethics is an essential work of reference for doctors, nurses, biomedical scientists, lawyers, journalists, philosophers, moral theologians, sociologists, and the general lay reader interested in the ethical issues that are transforming our lives.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors xi Acknowledgments xiii
Part I Introduction 1
1 What Is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction 3 Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
Part II Questions About Bioethics 13
2 Ethical Theory and Bioethics 15 James Rachels
3 Culture and Bioethics 24 Segun Gbadegesin
4 Gender and Bioethics 36 Jan Crosthwaite
5 Religion and Bioethics 46 Eric Gregory
6 Law and Bioethics 56 Wibren van der Burg
Part III Ethical Approaches 65
7 A Principle-based Approach 67 James F. Childress
8 Exceptionless Rule Approaches 77 Joseph Boyle
9 A Utilitarian Approach 85 R. M. Hare
10 A Virtue Ethics Approach 91 Justin Oakley
11 A Care Approach 105 Rita C. Manning
12 A Case Approach 117 John D. Arras
Part IV Before Birth: Issues Involving Embryos and Fetuses 127
13 Personhood 129 Michael Tooley
14 Abortion 140 Mary Anne Warren
15 Mother–Fetus Conflict 149 Bonnie Steinbock
Part V Issues In Reproduction 161
16 Population 163 Margaret Pabst Battin
17 Assisted Reproduction, Prenatal Testing, and Sex Selection 178 Laura M. Purdy
18 Cloning 193 Gregory Pence
Part VI The New Genetics 205
19 Gene Therapy 207 Ruth Chadwick
20 Genetic Enhancement 216 Julian Savulescu
21 Creating and Patenting New Life Forms 235 Nils Holtug
22 Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Screening 245 Angus Clarke
Part VII Life and Death Issues 261
23 Medical Decisions at the End of Life 263 Dan W. Brock
24 Severely Disabled Newborns 274 Eike-Henner W. Kluge
25 Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State 286 Jeff McMahan
26 Advance Directives 299 Alexander Morgan Capron
27 Voluntary Euthanasia, Suicide, and Physician-assisted Suicide 312 Brian Stoffell
28 The Slippery Slope Argument 321 Govert den Hartogh
Part VIII Resource Allocation 333
29 Deciding Between Patients 335 John Harris
30 Society’s Allocation of Resources for Health 351 Daniel Wikler and Sarah Marchand
31 Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does It Encompass? 362 Norman Daniels
Part IX Organ Donations 373
32 A World of Transferable Parts 375 Janet Radcliffe Richards
Part X Global Health-care Issues 391
33 Global Health Responsibilities 393 Christopher Lowry and Udo Schüklenk
34 Developing World Challenges 404 Udo Schüklenk, Michael Kottow, and Peter A. Sy
35 Global Pharmaceutical Markets 417 Kevin Outterson and Donald W. Light
36 Infectious Disease 430 Michael J. Selgelid
37 AIDS as a Global Health Emergency 441 Udo Schüklenk
Part XI Experimentation With Humans and Animals 455
38 Research Involving Human Beings 457 Florencia Luna and Ruth Macklin
39 Regulating Experimentation in Research and Medical Practice 469 Paul Ulhas Macneill
40 Research Using Preimplantation Human Embryos 487 Mary Warnock and Peter Braude
41 The Moral Status of Animals and Their Use As Experimental Subjects 495 Bernard E. Rollin
PART XII Ethical Issues in the Practice of Health Care 511
42 Confidentiality 513 Raanan Gillon and Daniel K. Sokol
43 Truth-telling 520 Roger Higgs
44 Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy 530 Robert Young
45 Patients Doubtfully Capable or Incapable of Consent 541 Carl Elliott
46 Ethics in Nursing Practice 551 Janet L. Storch
47 Global Trends in Nursing Ethics 563 Verena Tschudin
Part XIII The Teaching and Practice of Bioethics 571
48 Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants 573 Jonathan D. Moreno
49 Teaching Ethics in the Health Professions 584 Lynn Gillam
Index 594
Helga Kuhse is Adjunct Research Associate, School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Australia. She is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 150 professional articles and some 15 books, including Bioethics: An Anthology (co-edited with Peter Singer, second edition, Blackwell, 2006).
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books, including Animal Liberation (first published in 1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement, Practical Ethics (second edition, 1993), In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Blackwell, 2005), The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (co-edited with Renata Singer, Blackwell, 2004) and The Life You Can Save (2009). He was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and in 2005 Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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