From Reason to Practice in Bioethics

John Coggon is Professor of Law and the Philosophy of Public Health at the University of SouthamptonSarah Chan is Deputy Director of iSEI & Research Fellow in Bioethics and Law at the University of ManchesterSøren Holm is Professor of Bioethics at University of ManchesterThomasine Kushner is the Editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Economics

• Part I: Introductions1. Editors’ introduction – John Coggon, Sarah Chan, Søren Holm, and Thomasine Kushner2. Thought and memory – John HarrisPart II: Grounding moral arguments 3. On moral nose – Jonathan Glover4. Hanging around with Jackson: consistency in ethical argument, and how to avoid it – Richard Ashcroft5. The unbearable desire for explicitness and rationality in bioethics – Michael Parker and Micaela Ghisleni6. Moral epistemology and the survival lottery –Torbjörn Tännsjö7. Harris and the criticism of the status quo – Florencia Luna8. The natural as a moral category – Harry Lesser9. Making sense of human dignity – Deryck Beyleveld10. Why we should save the anthropocentric person – Simon WoodsPart III: From ethics to policy and practice 11. Why the reasonable man is not always right? – Margaret Brazier12. Why the body matters: reflections on John Harris’s account of organ procurement – Alastair V. Campbell13. Harris’s principle of justice in health care – Ruth Macklin14. Equality revisited – Andrew Edgar15. The safety of the people and the case against invasive health promotion – Andreas Hasman16. Could we reduce racism with one easy dip? What a thought-experiment about race-colour change makes us see – Margaret P. Battin17. Against mumps, Meursault, McDonald’s and Marlboro: On the immunization of children against smoking, alcohol and drugs – Inez de Beaufort18. Killing and allowing to die – Raanan GillonPart IV: John Harris responds 19. Response to and reflections on chapters 3-18 – John HarrisBibliography Index

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