| Description |
xviii, 920 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 9
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Abortion -- 1. Abortion and infanticide -- 2. A defence of abortion -- 3. The wrong of abortion -- 4. Why abortion is immoral -- pt. 2. Issues in reproduction -- Assisted reproduction -- 5. The McCaughey septuplets: God's will or human choice? -- 6. The meaning of synthetic gametes for gay and lesbian people and bioethics too -- 7. Rights, interests, and possible people -- Prenatal screening, sex selection, and cloning -- 8. Genetics and reproductive risk: can having children be immoral? -- 9. Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis -- 10. Sex selection and preimplantation diagnosis: a response to the ethics committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine -- 11. Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors -- 12. The moral status of human cloning: Neo-Lockean persons versus human embryo -- Pt. 3. Genetic manipulation -- 13. Questions about some uses of genetic engineering -- 14. The moral significance of the therapy- enhancement distinction in human genetics -- 15. In defense of posthuman dignity -- 16. Statement of NIH funding of research using gene-editing technologies in human embryos -- 17. genome editing and assisted reproduction : curing embryos, society or prospective parents? -- 18. Who's afraid of the big bad ( gremline editing) wolf? -- 19. An ethical pathway for gene editing -- Pt. 5. Life and death issues -- 20. The sanctity of life -- 21. Declaration on euthanasia -- Killing and letting die -- 22. Active and passive euthanasia -- 23. The morality of killing: a traditional view -- 24. Is killing no worse than letting die? -- 25. Why killing is not always worse - and sometimes better- than letting die -- 26. Moral fictions and medical ethics -- Newborns -- 27. Can a physician ever justifiably euthanize a severely disabled newborn? -- 28. No to infant euthanasia -- 29. Physicians can justifiably euthanize certain severely impaired neonates -- 30. you should not have let your baby die -- 31. After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? -- 32. Does a human being gain the right to live after he or she is born? -- 33. Hard lessons: learning from the Charlie Gard case -- Brain death -- 34. A definition of irreversible coma -- 35. The challenge of brain death for the sanctity of life ethic -- 36. The philosophical debate -- 37. An alternative to brain death -- Advanced directives -- 38. Life past reason -- 39. Dworkin on dementia: elegant theory, questionable policy -- Voluntary euthanasia and medically assisted suicide -- 40. The note -- 41. When self-determination runs amok -- 42. when abstract moralizing runs amok -- 43. Physician-assisted death and severe, treatment-resistant depression -- 44. Are concerns about irremediableness, vulnerability, or competence sufficient to justify excluding all psychiatric patients from medical aid in dying? -- Pt. 5. Resource allocation -- 45. In a pandemic, should we save younger lives? -- 46. The value of life -- 47. Bubbles under the wallpaper: healthcare rationing and discrimination -- 48. Rescuing lives : can't we count? -- 49. Should alcoholics compete equally for liver transplantation ? -- Pt. 6. Obtaining Organs -- 50. Organ donation and retrieval: whose body is it anyway? -- 51. The case for allowing Kidney sales -- 52. Ethical issues in the supply and demand of kidneys -- 53. The survival lottery -- Pt 7. Ethical issues in research -- 54. Belmont report: ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research -- 55. Scientific research is a moral duty -- 56. Participation in biomedical research is an imperfect moral duty: a response to John Harris -- 57. Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries. -- 58. We're trying to help our sickest people, not exploit them -- 59. Pandemic ethics: the case for risky research -- Experimentation with Animals -- 60. Duties towards animals -- 61. A Utilitarian view -- 62. The harmful nontherapeutic use of animals in research is morally wrong -- 63. The use of nonhuman animals in biomedical research -- 64. Ethical issues when modeling brain disorders in non-human primates -- Academic freedom and research -- 65. On liberty -- 66. Should some knowledge be forbidden?: the case of cognitive differences research -- 67. Academic freedom and race: you out not to believe what you think may be true -- Pt. 8. Public health issues -- 68. Ethics and infectious disease -- 69. XDR-TB in South Africa: no time for denial or complacency -- 70. Clinical ethics during the Covid-19 Pandemic: missing the trees for the forest -- 71. The moral obligation to be vaccinated: utilitarianism, contractualism and collective easy rescue -- 72. Taking responsibility for responsibility -- Pt. 9. Ethical issues in practice of healthcare -- When do doctors have a duty to treat? -- 73. What healthcare professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE) -- 74. Conscientious object in health care -- 75. Conscientious objection in medicine: accommodation versus professionalism and the public good -- Confidentiality -- 76. Confidentiality in medicine: a decrepit concept -- 77. A defense of unqualified medical confidentiality -- Truth-Telling -- 78. On a supposed right to lie from altruistic motives -- 79. Should doctors tell the truth? -- 80. On telling patients the truth -- Informed consent and patient autonomy -- 81. On liberty -- 82. From Scholdendorff v. New York Hospital -- 83. Informed consent: its history, meaning, and present challenges -- 84. The doctor-patient relationshop in different cultures -- 85. Transgender children and the right to transition: medical ethics when parents mean well but cause harm -- 86. Amputees by choice -- 87. Rational desires and the limitation of life-sustaining treatment -- Pt. 10. disability -- 88. Valuing disability, causing disability -- 89. Is disability a mere difference? -- 90. Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion: a challenge to practice and policy -- 91. Down syndrome screening isn't about public health: it's about eliminating a group of people -- 92.I would've aborted a fetus with down syndrome: women need that right -- Pt. 11 Neuroethics -- 93. Neuroethics: ethics and the sciences of the mind -- 94. Engineering love -- 9 5. Unrequited love hurts: should doctors treat broken hearts? -- 96. Stimulating brains, altering minds -- 97. Authenticity or autonomy? when deep brain stimulation causes a dilemma -- 98. On the necessity of ethical guidelines for novel neurotechnologies |
| Summary |
"The second edition sold a total of 19k copies since release in 2006, with strong sales (at least 1300 ) every year since release. The third edition has sold 6k copies since coming to market in December 2015. Solid 5-star reviews on Amazon, and #1 result when searching for 'Bioethics'. Will includes several new additions, including important historical readings and new contemporary material published since release of last edition in 2015"-- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Bioethics
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Bioethics
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Ethics, Medical
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Bioethical Issues
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Collected Work
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Bioethics.
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| Reading List |
HME911 recommended text 2024
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| Author |
Schüklenk, Udo, editor
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Singer, Peter, 1946-, editor
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| LC no. |
2020032198 |
| ISBN |
9781119635116 |
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111963511X |
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