Bioethics

Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Philosophy: Here and Now, Fourth Edition (2022), Bioethics, Fourth Edition (2020), The Power of Critical Thinking, Sixth Edition (2019), and Living Philosophy, Third Edition (2021), all published by Oxford University Press.

• PrefacePART 1. PRINCIPLES AND THEORIESChapter 1: Moral Reasoning in BioethicsEthics and BioethicsEthics and the Moral LifeIn Depth: Morality and the LawMoral Principles in BioethicsAutonomyNonmaleficenceBeneficenceUtilityJusticeEthical RelativismIn Depth: Anthropology and Moral DiversityEthics and ReligionMoral ArgumentsArgument FundamentalsPatterns of Moral ArgumentsReview: Valid and Invalid Argument FormsIn Depth: Fallacies in Moral ReasoningEvaluating PremisesAssessing Whole ArgumentsObstacles to Critical ReasoningKey TermsSummaryArgument ExercisesFurther ReadingNotesChapter 2: Bioethics and Moral TheoriesThe Nature of Moral TheoriesInfluential Moral TheoriesUtilitarianismIn Depth: Utilitarianism and the Golden RuleKantian EthicsPrinciplismNatural Law TheoryRawls' Contract TheoryVirtue EthicsIn Depth: Can Virtue Be Taught?The Ethics of CareFeminist EthicsCasuistryCriteria for Judging Moral TheoriesReview: Evaluating Moral Theories: Criteria of AdequacyApplying the CriteriaUtilitarianismKant's TheoryKey TermsSummaryFurther ReadingNotesReadings:" Dena S. Davis" Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson

Extremely well done for both undergraduate and graduate introduction to medical ethics courses. This text is comprehensive in its treatment of the issues I cover in my semester-length course on medical ethics." - John Thomas Meadors, Mississippi College