The Oxford handbook of bioethics / edited by Bonnie Steinbock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steinbock, Bonnie.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Bioethical Issues.

Medical Subjects:

Bioethical Issues.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

xviii, 747 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Part I Theoretical and Methodological Issues

1 Methods in Bioethics / James F. Childress 15

2 The Way We Reason Now: Reflective Equilibrium in Bioethics / John D. Arras 46

3 Autonomy / Bruce Jennings 72

4 Mental Disorder, Moral Agency, and the Self / Jeanette Kennett 90

5 'Reinventing' the Rule of Double Effect / Daniel P. Sulmasy 114

Part II Justice and Policy

6 Policy-Making in Pluralistic Societies / Soren Holm 153

7 Tiers Without Tears: The Ethics of a Two-Tier Health Care System / Benjamin J. Krohmal, Ezekiel J. Emanuel 175

8 Justice and the Elderly / Dennis McKerlie 190

Part III Bodies and Bodily Parts

9 Organ Transplantation / Ronald Munson 211

10 Biobanking / Louise Irving, John Harris 240

11 For Dignity or Money: Feminists on the Commodification of Women's Reproductive Labour / Carolyn McLeod 258

Part IV The end-of Life

12 The Definition of Death / Stuart J. Youngner 285

13 The Aging Society and the Expansion of Senility: Biotechnological and Treatment Goals / Stephen G. Post 304

14 Death Is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents / Felicia Nimue Ackerman 324

15 Precedent Autonomy, Advance Directives, and End-of-Life Care / John K. Davis 349

16 Physician-Assisted Death: The State of the Debate / Gerald Dworkin 375

Part V Reproduction and Cloning

17 Abortion Revisited / Don Marquis 395

18 Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos: Implications for Stem Cell Research / Bonnie Steinbock 416

19 Therapeutic Cloning: Politics and Policy / Andrea Bonnicksen 441

Part VI Genetics and Enhancement

20 Population Genetic Research and Screening: Conceptual and Ethical Issues / Eric T. Juengst 471

21 Enhancement / Thomas H. Murray 491

22 Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings / Julian Savulescu 516

23 Pharmacogenomics: Ethical and Regulatory Issues / Matthew DeCamp, Allen Buchanan 536

Part VII Research Ethics

24 Clinical Equipoise: Foundational Requirement or Fundamental Error? / Alex John London 571

25 Research on Cognitively Impaired Adults / Jason Karlawish 597

26 Research in Developing Countries / Florencia Luna 621

27 Animal Experimentation / Alastair Norcross 648

Part VIII Public and Global Health

28 The Implications of Public Health for Bioethics / Jeffrey Kahn, Anna Mastroianni 671

29 Global Health / Ruth Macklin 696

30 Bioethics and Bioterrorism / Jonathan D. Moreno 721.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199273355

0199273359

9780199562411

OCLC:

76360789