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Bioethics: An Anthology / Edition 3
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- 1118941500
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118941508
- Pub. Date:
- 12/21/2015
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- Wiley
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Overview
- The latest edition of this definitive one-volume collection, now updated to reflect the latest developments in the field
- Includes several new additions, including important historical readings and new contemporary material published since the release of the last edition in 2006
- Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, neuroethics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, public health, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, genetic screening, and issues facing nurses
- Subjects are clearly and captivatingly discussed by globally distinguished bioethicists
- A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118941508 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 12/21/2015 |
Series: | Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies Series |
Edition description: | 3rd ed. |
Pages: | 800 |
Product dimensions: | 7.40(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.70(d) |
About the Author
Udo Schüklenkholds the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy at Queen's University at Kingston in Canada. He is a Joint Editor-in-Chief of Bioethics, the journal of the International Association of Bioethics. He is the author, co-author or editor of 160 contributions in journals and anthologies and 7 books including 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists 2009), The Bioethics Reader (2007) and 50 Great Myths About Atheism (2013).
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 40 books, including Animal Liberation (first published in 1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement, Practical Ethics (third edition, 2011), In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (2005), and The Life You Can Save (2009). In 2005, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country’s highest civilian honour.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiiIntroduction 1
Part I Abortion 9
Introduction 11
1 Abortion and Health Care Ethics 15John Finnis
2 Abortion and Infanticide 23Michael Tooley
3 A Defense of Abortion 38Judith Jarvis Thomson
4 Why Abortion Is Immoral 49Don Marquis
Part II Issues in Reproduction 61
Introduction 63
Assisted Reproduction 69
5 Multiple Gestation and Damaged Babies: God’s Will or Human Choice? 71Gregory Pence
6 Assisted Reproduction in Same Sex Couples 74Dorothy A. Greenfeld and Emre Seli
7 Rights, Interests, and Possible People 86Derek Parfit
8 The Ethics of Uterus Transplantation 91Ruby Catsanos, Wendy Rogers, and Mianna Lotz
Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection, and Cloning 103
9 Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral? 105Laura M. Purdy
10 Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy 112Adrienne Asch
11 Genetic Technology: A Threat to Deafness 127Ruth Chadwick and Mairi Levitt
12 Sex Selection and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine 136
13 Sex Selection and Preimplantation Diagnosis: A Response to the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine 141Julian Savulescu and Edgar Dahl
14 Conception to Obtain Hematopoietic Stem Cells 144John A. Robertson, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and John E. Wagner
15 Why We Should Not Permit Embryos to Be Selected as Tissue Donors 152David King
16 The Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans 156Michael Tooley
Part III Genetic Manipulation 173
Introduction 175
17 Questions about Some Uses of Genetic Engineering 177Jonathan Glover
18 The Moral Significance of the Therapy–Enhancement Distinction in Human Genetics 189David B. Resnik
19 Should We Undertake Genetic Research on Intelligence? 199Ainsley Newson and Robert Williamson
20 In Defense of Posthuman Dignity 208Nick Bostrom
Part IV Life and Death Issues 215
Introduction 217
21 The Sanctity of Life 225Jonathan Glover
22 Declaration on Euthanasia 235
Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Killing and Letting Die 241
23 The Morality of Killing: A Traditional View 243Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr.
24 Active and Passive Euthanasia 248James Rachels
25 Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die? 252Winston Nesbitt
26 Why Killing is Not Always Worse – and Sometimes Better – Than Letting Die 257Helga Kuhse
27 Moral Fictions and Medical Ethics 261Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog, and Dan W. Brock
Severely Disabled Newborns 271
28 When Care Cannot Cure: Medical Problems in Seriously Ill Babies 273Neil Campbell
29 The Abnormal Child: Moral Dilemmas of Doctors and Parents 285R. M. Hare
30 Right to Life of Handicapped 290Alison Davis
31 Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical Separation 292Christine Overall
Brain Death 305
32 A Definition of Irreversible Coma 307
Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death
33 Are Recent Defences of the Brain Death Concept Adequate? 312Ari Joffe
34 Is the Sanctity of Life Ethic Terminally Ill? 321Peter Singer
Advance Directives 331
35 Life Past Reason 333Ronald Dworkin
36 Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy 341Rebecca Dresser
Voluntary Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide 351
37 The Note 353Chris Hill
38 When Self-Determination Runs Amok 357Daniel Callahan
39 When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok 362John Lachs
40 Trends in End-of-Life Practices Before and After the Enactment of the Euthanasia Law in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2010: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey 366Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Arianne Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, Corine Penning, Gwen J. F. de Jong-Krul, Johannes J. M. van Delden, and Agnes van der Heide
41 Euthanasia in the Netherlands: What Lessons for Elsewhere? 377Bernard Lo
Part V Resource Allocation 381
Introduction 383
42 Rescuing Lives: Can’t We Count? 387Paul T. Menzel
43 Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation? 390Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler
44 The Value of Life 397John Harris
45 Bubbles under the Wallpaper: Healthcare Rationing and Discrimination 406Nick Beckstead and Toby Ord
Part VI Obtaining Organs 413
Introduction 415
46 Organ Donation and Retrieval: Whose Body Is It Anyway? 417Eike-Henner W. Kluge
47 The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales 421Janet Radcliffe-Richards, A. S. Daar, R. D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, I. Kennedy, M. Lock, R. A. Sells, N. Tilney, and for the International Forum for Transplant Ethics
48 Ethical Issues in the Supply and Demand of Human Kidneys 425Debra Satz
49 The Survival Lottery 437John Harris
Part VII Experimentation with Human Participants 443
Introduction 445
Human Participants 449
50 Ethics and Clinical Research 451Henry K. Beecher
51 Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research 459Benjamin Freedman
52 The Patient and the Public Good 466Samuel Hellman
53 Scientific Research Is a Moral Duty 471John Harris
54 Participation in Biomedical Research Is an Imperfect Moral Duty: A Response to John Harris 483Sandra Shapshay and Kenneth D. Pimple
55 Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries 489Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe
56 We’re Trying to Help Our Sickest People, Not Exploit Them 495Danstan Bagenda and Philippa Musoke-Mudido
57 Medical Researchers’ Ancillary Clinical Care Responsibilities 497Leah Belsky and Henry S. Richardson
Human Embryos – Stem Cells 503
58 President Discusses Stem Cell Research 505George W. Bush
59 Killing Embryos for Stem Cell Research 508Jeff McMahan
Part VIII Experimentation with Animals 521
Introduction 523
60 Duties towards Animals 527Immanuel Kant
61 A Utilitarian View 529Jeremy Bentham
62 All Animals Are Equal 530Peter Singer
63 Vivisection, Morals and Medicine: An Exchange 540R. G. Frey and Sir William Paton
Part IX Public Health Issues 551
Introduction 553
64 Ethics and Infectious Disease 555Michael J. Selgelid
65 Rethinking Mandatory HIV Testing during Pregnancy in Areas with High HIV Prevalence Rates: Ethical and Policy Issues 565Udo Schüklenk and Anita Kleinsmidt
66 Mandatory HIV Testing in Pregnancy: Is There Ever a Time? 572Russell Armstrong
67 XDR-TB in South Africa: No Time for Denial or Complacency 582Jerome Amir Singh, Ross Upshur, and Nesri Padayatchi
Part X Ethical Issues in the Practice of Healthcare 591
Introduction 593
Confidentiality 597
68 Confidentiality in Medicine: A Decrepit Concept 599Mark Siegler
69 The Duty to Warn and Clinical Ethics: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Confidentiality and HIV/AIDS 603Christian Säf ken and Andreas Frewer
Truth-Telling 611
70 On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives 613Immanuel Kant
71 Should Doctors Tell the Truth? 615Joseph Collins
72 On Telling Patients the Truth 621Roger Higgs
Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy 629
73 On Liberty 631John Stuart Mill
74 From Schloendorff v. NewYork Hospital 634Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo
75 Informed Consent: Its History, Meaning, and Present Challenges 635Tom L. Beauchamp
76 The Doctor–Patient Relationship in Different Cultures 642Ruth Macklin
77 Amputees by Choice 654Carl Elliott
78 Rational Desires and the Limitation of Life-Sustaining Treatment 665Julian Savulescu
79 The Nocebo Effect of Informed Consent 683Shlomo Cohen
Part XI Special Issues Facing Nurses 693
Introduction 695
80 The Relation of the Nurse to the Doctor and the Doctor to the Nurse 699Sarah E. Dock
81 In Defense of the Traditional Nurse 700Lisa H. Newton
82 Patient Autonomy and Medical Paternity: Can Nurses Help Doctors to Listen to Patients? 708Sarah Breier
83 Health and Human Rights Advocacy: Perspectives from a Rwandan Refugee Camp 718Carol Pavlish, Anita Ho, and Ann-Marie Rounkle
Part XII Neuroethics 729
Introduction 731
84 Neuroethics: An Agenda for Neuroscience and Society 733Jonathan D. Moreno
85 How Electrical Brain Stimulation Can Change the Way We Think 741Sally Adee
86 Neuroethics: Ethics and the Sciences of the Mind 744Neil Levy
87 Freedom of Memory Today 749Adam Kolber
88 Towards Responsible Use of Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs by the Healthy 753Henry Greely, Barbara Sahakian, John Harris, Ronald C. Kessler, Michael Gazzaniga, Philip Campbell, and Martha J. Farah
89 Engineering Love 760Julian Savulescu and Anders Sandberg
Index 762
What People are Saying About This
Praise for the Previous Edition
“The field of bioethics continues to evolve at a breakneck pace.
One could hardly ask for a more thorough guide to where it has been, and what values and principles might steer where it is going, than this comprehensive and balanced volume.” Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania
“This is an outstanding collection which covers all the main issues in bioethics and brings together much of the best philosophical work on them.” Dan W.
Brock, Harvard Medical School
"A useful tool to gain an overview of important and influential texts and thinking of leading authors and commentators in bioethics." Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics
"This remains the definitive collection in bioethicschock full of interesting, worthwhile articlesboth old and new. The anthology has a nice mix of classic and more recent topics of interest." J. Jeremy
Wisnewski, Editor, Review Journal of Political Philosophy