Ethics of Bioethics

Lisa A. Eckenwiler is an associate professor of philosophy and director of health care ethics at the George Mason University Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics. Felicia G. Cohn is an associate professor and the director of medical ethics at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Medical Center.

• List of ContributorsForeword, by Jonathan D. MorenoAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Situating Bioethics: Where Have We Benn? Where Should We Be Going?1. Analyzing Pandora's Box: The History of Bioethics2. A History of Codes of Ethics for BioethicistsPart II: Bioethics and the Problems of Expertise3. The Tyranny of Expertise4. Trusting BioethicistsPart III: Contributions and Conflicts: Policy and Politics5. Intellectual Capital and Voting Booth Bioethics: A Contemporary Historical Critique6. Bioethics and Society: From the Ivory Tower to the State House7. Democratic Ideals and Bioethics Commissions: The Problem of Expertise in a Egalitarian Society8. The Endarkenment9. Left Bias in Academic Bioethics: Three Dogmas10. Bioethics as Politics: A Critical Reassessment11. ASBH and Moral Tolerance12. Bioethics as ActivismPart IV: Contributions and Conflicts: Consultation in the Clinic and the Corporate World13. Ethics on the Inside?14. Strategic Disclosure Requirements and the Ethics of Bioethics15. Ties without Tethers: Bioethics Corporate Relations in the AbioCor Artificial Heart TrialPart V: Defining Values and Obligations16. Of Courage, Honor, and Integrity17. I Want You: Notes toward a Theory of Hospitality18. Learning to Listen: Second-Order Moral Perception and the Work of Bioethics19. Global Health Inequalities and Bioethics20. White Normativity in U.S. Bioethics: A Call and Method for More Pluralist and Democratic Standards and Policies21. Mentoring in Bioethics: Possibilities and Problems22. Obligations to Fellow and Future Bioethicists: PublicationPart VI: Assessing Bioethics and Bioethicists23. The Virtue of Attacking the Bioethicist24. Social Moral Epistemology and the Role of Bioethicists25. The Glass House: Assessing BioethicsIndex

Without question, The Ethics of Bioethics is a must-read for all persons involved with bioethics. This well-written, well-organized paperback seeks to analyze the many facets of ethics in the field of bioethics. JAMA 2008 The editors have compiled a cogent collection that signifies an important contribution to bioethics that is reflective of the complexity and importance of the field. -- Mark Dietrich Tschaepe Metapsychology 2008 Anyone who takes bioethics seriously will find much to applaud. -- William E. Stempsey Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2008 The strength of the volume is not that it answers questions of the ethics of bioethics, but rather that it offers an accurate portrait of the diverse views of the field. -- Lisa Rasmussen American Journal of Bioethics 2008 The Ethics of Bioethics is a sterling contribution to the ongoing debate in bioethics regarding who we are, what we do, and what we are becoming. I would strongly encourage its use for educators in bioethics who want their students to engage in these ongoing dialogues. -- Kayhan Parsi Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2009 Eckenwiler and Cohn have done the evolving field of bioethics a great service by assembling 25 thoughtful and erudite essays into this excellent book... It is provocative and stimulating and may help change your views about what is most important for medicine in the 21st century. -- Barry Morenz, MD Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2010