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Third edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 782 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 40 |
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Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 40.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Abortion and health care ethics / John Finnis -- Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis -- Multiple gestation and damaged babies : God's will or human choice? / Gregory Pence -- Assisted reproduction in same sex couples / Dorothy A. Greenfeld and Emre Seli -- Rights, interests, and possible people / Derek Parfit -- The ethics of uterus transplantation / Ruby Catsanos, Wendy Rogers, and Mianna Lotz -- Genetics and reproductive risk : can having children be immoral? / Laura M. Purdy -- Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion : a challenge to practice and policy / Adrienne Asch -- Genetic technology : a threat to deafness / Ruth Chadwick and Mari Levitt -- Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis / The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine -- Conception to obtain hematopoietic stem cells / John A. Robertson, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and John E. Wagner -- Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors / David King -- The moral status of the cloning of humans / Michael Tooley -- Questions about some uses of genetic engineering / Jonathan Glover -- The Moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics / David B. Resnick -- Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence? / Ainsley Newson and Robert Williamson -- In defense of posthuman dignity / Nick Bostrom -- The sanctity of life / Jonathan Glover -- Declaration on euthanasia / Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- The morality of killing : a traditional view / Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Is killing no worse than letting die? / Winston Nesbitt -- Why killing is not always worse -- and sometimes better -- than letting die / Helga Kuhse -- Mortal fictions and medical ethics / Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog, and Dan W. Brock. |
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When care cannot cure : medical problems in seriously ill babies / Neil Campbell -- The abnormal child : moral dilemmas of doctors and parents / R.M. Hare -- Right to life of handicapped / Alison Davis -- Conjoined twins : embodied personhood, and surgical separation / Christine Overall -- A definition of irreversible coma / Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death -- Is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? / Peter Singer -- Life past reason / Ronald Dworkin -- Dworkin on dementia : elegant theory, questionable policy / Rebecca Dresser -- The note / Chris Hill -- When self-determination runs amok / Daniel Callahan -- When abstract moralizing runs amok / John Lachs -- Trends in end-of-life practices before and after the enactment of the Euthanasia Law in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2010 : a repeated cross-sectional survey / Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Arianne Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, Corine Penning, Gwen J.F. De Jong-Krul, Johannes J.M. van Delden, and Agnes van der Heide -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands : what lessons for elsewhere? / Bernard Lo -- Rescuing lives : can't we count? / Paul T. Menzel -- Should alcoholics compete equally for liver transplantation? / Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler -- The value of life / John Harris -- Organ donation and retrieval : whose body is it anyway? / Eike-Henner W. Kluge -- The case for allowing kidney sales / Janet Radcliffe-Richards, A.S. Daar, R.D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, I. Kennedy, M. Lock, R.A. Sells, N. Tilney, and for the International Forum for Transplant Ethics -- Ethical issues in the supply and demand of human kidneys / Debra Satz -- The Survival lottery / John Harris -- Ethics and clinical research / Henry K. Beecher -- Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research / Benjamin Freedman -- The patient and the public good / Samuel Hellman -- Participation in biomedical research is an imperfect moral duty : a response to John Harris / Sandra Shapshay and Kenneth D. Pimple -- Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries / Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe -- We're trying to help our sickest people, not exploit them / Danstan Bagenda and Philippa Musoke-Mudido -- Medical researchers' ancillary clinical care responsibilities / Leah Belsky and Henry S. Richardson. |
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President discusses stem cell research / George W. Bush -- Killing embryos for stem cell research / Jeff McMahan -- Duties toward animals / Immanuel Kant -- A utilitarian view / Jeremy Bentham -- All animals are equal / Peter Singer -- Vivisection, morals and medicine : an exchange / R.G. Frey and Sir William Paton -- Ethics and infectious disease / Michael J. Selgelid -- Rethinking mandatory HIV testing during pregnancy in areas with high HIV prevalence rates : ethical and policy issues / Udo Schüklenk and Anita Kleinsmidt -- Mandatory HIV testing in pregnancy : is there ever a time? / Russell Armstrong -- XDR-TB in South Africa : no time for denial or complacency / Jerome Amir Singh, Ross Upshur, and Nesri Padayatchi -- Confidentiality in medicine : a decrepit concept / Mark Siegler -- The duty to warn and clinical ethics : legal and ethical aspect of confidentiality and HIV/AIDS / Christian Säfken and Andreas Frewer -- On a supposed right to lie from altruistic motives / Immanuel Kant -- Should doctors tell the truth? / Joseph Collins -- On telling patients the truth / Roger Higgs -- On liberty / John Stuart Mills -- From Schloendorff v. New York Hospital / Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo -- Informed consent : its history, meaning, and present challenges / Tom L. Beauchamp -- The Doctor-patient relationship in different cultures / Ruth Macklin -- Amputees by choice / Carl Elliott -- Rational desires and the limitation of life-sustaining treatment / Julian Savulescu -- The nocebo effect of informed consent / Shlomo Cohen -- The relation of the nurse to the doctor and the doctor to the nurse / Sarah E. Dock -- In defense of the traditional nurse / Lisa H. Newton -- Health and human rights advocacy : perspectives from a Rwandan refugee camp / Carol Pavlish, Anita Ho, and Ann-Marie Rounkle -- Neuroethics : an agenda for neuroscience and society / Jonathan D. Moreno -- How electrical brain stimulation can change the way we think / Sally Adee -- Neuroethics : ethics and the sciences of the mind / Neil Levy -- Freedom of memory today / Adam Kolber -- Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy / Henry Greely, Barbara Sahakian, John Harris, Ronald C. Kessler, Michael Gazzaniga, Philip Campbell, and Martha J. Farah -- Engineering love / Julian Savulescu and Anders Sandberg. |
| Summary |
Bioethics: An Anthology has become established as the definitive one-volume collection of key primary readings in bioethics. Now fully revised and updated, this third edition reflects current issues and developments, covering all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in the field. Edited by three highly respected scholars, the anthology brings together writing on an unparalleled range of ethical issues relating to such matters as reproduction, genetics, life and death, and animal experimentation. |
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This latest edition contains a wealth of new material, including important historical readings and the latest contemporary material published since the release of the second edition in 2006. It includes updated coverage on topics such as the ethics of uterus transplantation, sex selection, brain death and euthanasia, stem cell research, mandatory HIV testing in pregnancy, issues facing nurses, and new sections in the areas of neuroethics and public health ethics. Discussions are clearly and compellingly presented by internationally renowned bioethicists. |
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"Now fully revised and updated, Bioethics: An Anthology, 3rd edition, contains a wealth of new material reflecting the latest developments. This definitive text brings together writings on an unparalleled range of key ethical issues, compellingly presented by internationally renowned scholars. The latest edition of this definitive one-volume collection, now updated to reflect the latest developments in the field; Includes several new additions, including important historical readings and new contemporary material published since the release of the last edition in 2006; Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, neuroethics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, public health, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, genetic screening, and issues facing nurses; Subjects are clearly and captivatingly discussed by globally distinguished bioethicists; A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves" -- Provided by publisher. |
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Medical ethics.
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Bioethics.
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Bioethics. (OCoLC)fst00832038
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Medical ethics. (OCoLC)fst01014081
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| Added Author |
Kuhse, Helga, editor.
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Schüklenk, Udo, editor.
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Singer, Peter, 1946- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781118941508 (pbk.) |
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1118941500 (pbk.) |
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