Bioethics Reader

Ruth Chadwick has been co-editor of Bioethics since 2000. She is Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen): a Lancaster-Cardiff collaboration.

This volume offers a compilation of articles chosen by the current and past editors of Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics, published in the journals during the last two decades. The Bioethics Reader's eight sections include some of the journals' best publications in areas comprising methodological issues, the health care professional-patient relationship, just health care, public health ethics, research ethics, genetics, as well as beginning- and end-of-life issues. The Bioethics Reader offers a good overview of discussions in the field of bioethics during the last twenty years. It will serve the academic bioethicists as well as students of bioethics as an excellent source book.

Introduction: Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman, Udo Schuklenk, and Peter Singer. Part I: Doing Bioethics:. 1. A Report from America: When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip: James Rachels. 2. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below: Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos. 3. What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations: Erica Hajmes. 4. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity: Nick Bostrom. Part II: Healthcare Professional-Patient Relationship:. 5. Patients' Responsibilities in Medical Ethics: Heather Draper and Tom Sorell. 6. Clinical Ethics and Nursing: 'Yes' to Caring, But 'No' to a Female Ethics of Care: Helga Kuhse. 7. Background Briefing Psychiatric Ethics: Jennifer Radden. 8. Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification: Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson. Part III: Just Health Care:. 9. Patents and Access to Drugs in Developing Countries: An Ethical Analysis: Sigrid Sterckx. 10. Justice and Equal Opportunities in Health Care: John Harris. 11. Constraints and Heroes: Carl Elliott. Part IV: Public Health Ethics:. 12. The Genesis of Public Health Ethics: Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild. 13. Ethics and Infectious Disease: Michael J. Selgelid. 14. Vaccination and the Prevention Problem: Angus Dawson. Part V: Research Ethics:. 15. Background Briefing: International Research Ethics: Udo Schuklenk and Richard Ashcroft. 16. Equipoise and International Human-Subjects Research: Alex John London. 17. Symposium: Drugs for the Developing World,. Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma: David B. Resnik. 18. Some Questions about the Moral Responsibilities of Drug Companies in Developing Countries: Dan W. Brock. 19. Social Responsibility and Global Pharmaceutical Companies: Norman Daniels. Part VI: Genetics:. 20. Do Human Cells Have Rights?: Mary Warnock. 21. Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy: Soren Holm. 22. Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome: Nicholas Agar. 23. The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms - the Case of Wrongful Handicaps: Dan W. Brock. 24. Coding and Consent: Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland: Vilhjalmur Arnason. Part VII: Beginning of Life Issues:. 25. Is It Good to Make Happy People?: Stuart Rachels. 26. Genes, Embryos, and Future People: Walter Glannon. 27. Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children: Julian Savulescu. 28. The Problem of Abortion: Essentially Contested Concepts and Moral Autonomy: Susanne Gibson. 29. Law and Bioethics, The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood: Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens. 30. The Limits of Conscientious Objection to Abortion in the Developing World: Louis-Jacques van Bogaert. 31. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment?: Laura M. Purdy. Part VIII: End of Life:. 32. The Metaphysics of Brain Death: Jeff McMahan. 33. Advance Directives, Autonomy and Unintended Death: Jim Stone. 34. End of Life Care in HIV-Infected Children Who Died in Hospital: Lesley D. Henley. Index