Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics

PIERS BENN Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, Imperial College, UKKATRIEN DEVOLDER is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and is based at the Bioethics Institute Ghent at Ghent University, BelgiumHEATHER DRAPER is Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences University of Birmingham, UKRAY FREY Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green University, USAJOHN HARRIS Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, UKHALLVARD LILLEHAMMER Fellow of King's College, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University, UKDAVID S. ODERBERG Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UKJAMES STACEY TAYLOR Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey USASTEPHEN WILKINSON Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy, Keele University, UK

• Introduction; N.Athanassoulis Belief, Disability and the Non-Identity Problem; H.Lillehammer 'Designer Babies', Instrumentalisation and the Child's Right to an Open Future; S.Wilkinson Why There is no Right to Know One's Genetic Origins; H.Draper Compromise and Moral Complicity in the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate; K.Devolder & J.Harris Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering; D.S. Oderberg Autonomy Inducements and Organ Sales; J.S.Taylor The Role of Conscience in Medical Ethics; P.Benn The Treatment that Leaves Something to Luck; N.Athanassoulis Active and Passive Euthanasia; R.Frey Index

'...essential reading for anyone interested in the vast range of complex ethical, social and legal issues at the center of contemporary medical ethics.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews