Bioethics Reader

Ruth Chadwick has been co-editor of Bioethics since 2000. She is Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen): a Lancaster–Cardiff collaboration.Helga Kuhse is an Honorary Research Associate of the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics. She was Director of the Centre until June 1999. Kuhse is the author of Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics, The Sanctity of Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique, co-author of Should the Baby Live? with Peter Singer, editor of Willing to Listen - Wanting to Die and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals.Willem Landman was one of the founding editors and is currently co-editor of Developing World Bioethics. He is CEO of the Ethics Institute of South Africa (EthicSA), Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch, and Ethics Advisor to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva. He studied at the University of Oxford and taught bioethics at the University of North Carolina.Udo Schüklenk has been co-editor of Bioethics since 2000. He was also one of the founding editors and is currently co-editor of Developing World Bioethics. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy in the Philosophy Department of Canada's Queen's University.Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, and The Ethics of What We Eat. He was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics.

• Introduction xiRuth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter SingerPart I: Doing Bioethics 11. A Report from America When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip 3James Rachels2. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below 9Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos3. What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations 33Erica Hajmes4. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity 58Nick BostromPart II: Healthcare Professional–Patient Relationship 715. Patients’ Responsibilities in Medical Ethics 73Heather Draper and Tom Sorell6. Clinical Ethics and Nursing: ‘Yes’ to Caring, But ‘No’ to a Female Ethics of Care 91Helga Kuhse7. Psychiatric Ethics 104Jennifer Radden8. Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification 119Sally Sheldon and Stephen WilkinsonPart III: Just Health Care 1439. Patents and Access to Drugs in Developing Countries: An Ethical Analysis 145Sigrid Sterckx10. Justice and Equal Opportunities in Health Care 162John Harris11. Constraints and Heroes 175Carl ElliottPart IV: Public Health Ethics 18712. The Genesis of Public Health Ethics 189Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild13. Ethics and Infectious Disease 209Michael J. Selgelid14. Vaccination and the Prevention Problem 226Angus DawsonPart V: Research Ethics 24115. International Research Ethics 243Udo Schüklenk and Richard Ashcroft16. Equipoise and International Human-Subjects Research 258Alex John London17. Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma 279David B. Resnik18. Some Questions about the Moral Responsibilities of Drug Companies in Developing Countries 301Dan W. Brock19. Social Responsibility and Global Pharmaceutical Companies 306Norman DanielsPart VI: Genetics 31120. Do Human Cells Have Rights? 313Mary Warnock21. Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy 328Søren Holm22. Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome 342Nicholas Agar23. The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms – the Case of Wrongful Handicaps358Dan W. Brock24. Coding and Consent: Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland 365Vilhjálmur ÁrnasonPart VII: Beginning of Life Issues 38725. Is It Good to Make Happy People? 389Stuart Rachels26. Genes, Embryos, and Future People 408Walter Glannon27. Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children 434Julian Savulescu28. The Problem of Abortion: Essentially Contested Concepts and Moral Autonomy 447Susanne Gibson29. The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood 459Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens30. The Limits of Conscientious Objection to Abortion in the Developing World 477Louis-Jacques van Bogaert31. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment? 490Laura M. PurdyPart VIII: End of Life 50932. The Metaphysics of Brain Death 511Jeff McMahan33. Advance Directives, Autonomy and Unintended Death 551Jim Stone34. End of Life Care in HIV-Infected Children Who Died in Hospital 576Lesley D. HenleyIndex 592

‘A nice synthesis of some developments in the field that will be useful to those who dabble in bioethics, or who are interested in seeing what new areas of research have emerged alongside new technological advances and growing globalization. It is a nice supplement to some of the more traditional collections of contributions to this growing field.’J. Jeremy Wisnewski, PhD, Hartwick CollegeFrom Metapsychology Online Reviews (Volume 12, Issue 7)For the full review please visit: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4071