Standing on Principles

Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Author of PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS, OUP, now in a sixth edition.

• Preface and Acknowledgments The Belmont Report and the Rise of Principles1. The Origins and Evolution of the Belmont Report2. Codes, Declarations, and Other Ethical Guidance for Human Subjects Research: The Belmont Report Principlism and Practice3. The Four Principles Approach to Health Care Ethics 4. Informed Consent: Its History and Nature5. Who Deserves Autonomy and Whose Autonomy Deserves Respect?6. The Concept of Paternalism in Biomedical Ethics7. When Hastened Death is Neither Killing Nor Letting-Die8. The Exploitation of the Economically Disadvantaged in Pharmaceutical Research Theory and Method9. Principles and Other Emerging Paradigms for Bioethics10. A Defense of the Common Morality11. From Morality to Common Morality12. On Eliminating the Distinction between Applied Ethics and Ethical Theory13. Does Ethical Theory Have a Future in Bioethics? 14. The Failure of Theories of Personhood15. Looking Back and Judging Our Predecessors Index

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