Empirical Bioethics

Jonathan Ives is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics and Law at the University of Bristol's Centre for Ethics in Medicine. He has published extensively on the theory and methodology of empirical bioethics, with his methodological work developing primarily through his research on the ethics of fathers, fatherhood and the family. Michael Dunn is a Lecturer in Health and Social Care Ethics at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, where he is also Director of Undergraduate Medical Ethics and Law Education, and Director of the Centre's graduate training programmes. Dunn has published extensively on empirical bioethics methodology, and more broadly in clinical ethics and research ethics. Alan Cribb is Co-Director of the Centre for Public Policy Research at King's College London. He has a particular interest in developing interdisciplinary scholarship that links philosophical, social science and professional concerns, and in addition to work on empirical bioethics, he has written about health and education policy, health services research and professional education.

• Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: 1. Theoretical perspectives: an introduction Jonathan Ives, Michael Dunn and Alan Cribb; 2. Empirical bioethics and the fact/value distinction John McMillan; 3. Metaethics, relativism and empirical bioethics Mark Sheehan; 4. Empirical bioethics and the role of the professional ethicist in policy making: politics, authority and expertise Kyle T. Edwards and Zuzana Deans; 5. Evidence, epistemology and empirical bioethics Ilina Singh; 6. Friends, foes, flatmates: on the relationship between law and (empirical) bioethics Richard Huxtable; 7. Embracing diversity in empirical bioethics Alan Cribb and John Owens; Part II. Practical Perspectives: 8. Practical perspectives: an introduction Michael Dunn, Jonathan Ives and Alan Cribb; 9. Moral improvement through interactive research: a practice example of dialogical empirical bioethics Elleke Landeweer, Bert Molewijk and Guy Widdershoven; 10. Reflective equilibrium as a normative empirical model: the case of Ashley X Ghislaine J. M. W. van Thiel and Johannes J. M. van Delden; 11. Theory and practice of democratic deliberation in bioethics research Scott Kim; 12. Feminist empirical bioethics Jackie Leach Scully; 13. Lessons from experience: establishing and running interdisciplinary mixed method bioethics research Bobbie Farsides and Clare Williams; 14. Publishing research in empirical bioethics: quality, disciplines and expertise Lucy Frith and Heather Draper.

'… this collection demonstrates both comprehensiveness and usefulness to those wishing to further their knowledge of this exciting methodological territory.' Giles Birchley, Prometheus