The ethics of bioethics : mapping the moral landscape / edited by Lisa A. Eckenwiler and Felicia G. Cohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eckenwiler, Lisa A., 1967-

Cohn, Felicia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Professional ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through twenty-five lively essays examining the field's history and trends, shortcomings and strengths, and the political and policy interplay within the bioethical realm, this comprehensive book begins a much-needed critical and constructive discussion of the moral landscape of bioethics.

Contents:

Analyzing pandora's box : the history of bioethics / Carol Levine

A history of codes of ethics for bioethicists / Robert Baker

The tyranny of expertise / Carl Elliott

Trusting bioethicists / James Lindemann Nelson

Intellectual capital and voting booth bioethics : a contemporary historical critique / M.L. Tina Stevens

Bioethics and society : from the ivory tower to the state house / David Orentlicher

Democratic ideals and bioethics commissions : the problem of expertise in an egalitarian society / Mark G. Kuczewski

The endarkenment / R. Alta Charo

Left bias in academic bioethics : three dogmas / Griffin Trotter

Bioethics as politics : a critical reassessment / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr

ASBH and moral tolerance / Mary Faith Marshall

Bioethics as activism / Lisa S. Parker

Ethics on the inside? / Debra A. Debruin

Strategic disclosure requirements and the ethics of bioethics / Virginia A. Sharpe

Ties without tethers : bioethics corporate relations in the AbioCor artificial heart trial / E. Haavi Morreim

Of courage, honor, and integrity / Francoise Baylis

I want you : notes toward a theory of hospitality / Laurie Zoloth

Learning to listen : second-order moral perception and the work of bioethics / Judith Andre

Global health inequalities and bioethics / Leigh Turner

White normativity in U.S. bioethics : a call and method for more pluralist and democratic standards and policies / Catherine Myser

Mentoring in bioethics : possibilities and problems / James F. Childress

Obligations to fellow and future bioethicists : publication / Hilde Lindemann

The virtue of attacking the bioethicist / Tod Chambers

Social moral epistemology and the role of bioethicists / Allen Buchanan

The glass house : assessing bioethics / Nancy M. P. King.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9226-0

1-4356-9268-3

OCLC:

923192794