The Oxford handbook of bioethics / edited by Bonnie Steinbock.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford handbooks in philosophy | Oxford handbooks in philosophyPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 768 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780199562411 (pbk.) :
- 9780199562411
- 0199562415 (pbk.)
- 0199273359
- 9780199273355
- Handbook of bioethics
- 174.957 STE
- QH332
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Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Bonnie Steinbock -- Part I.Theoretical and methodological issues -- 1.Methods in biotethcis. James F. Childress -- 2.The way we reason now: reflective equilibrium in biotechics. John D. Arras -- 3.Autonomy. Bruce Jennings -- 4.Mental disorder, moral agency, and the self. Jeanette Kennett -- 5.\'Reinventing\' the rule of double effect. Daniel P. Sulmasy -- Part II.Justice and policy -- 6.Policy-making in pluralistic societies. Soren Holm -- 7.Tiers without tears: the ethics of two-tier health care system. Benjamin J. Krohmal and Ezekiel J. Emanuel - 8.Justices and the elderly. Dennis McKerlie -- Part III.Bodies and bodily parts -- 9.Organ transplantation. Ronald Munson -- 10.Biobanking. Louise Irving and John Harris -- 11.For dignity or money: feminists onthe commodification of women\'s reproductive labour. Carolyn McLeod -- Part IV: The end of live -- 12.The definiton of death. Stuart J. Youngner -- 13.The aging society and the expansion of senility: biotechnological and treatment goals. Stephen G. Post -- 14.Death is a punch in the jaw: life-extension and its discontents. Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- 15.Precedent autonomy, advance directives, and end-of-life care. John K. Davis -- 16.Physician-assisted death: the state of the debate. Gerald Dworkin -- Part V: Reproduction and cloning -- 17.Abortion revisited. Don Marquis -- 18.Moral status, moral value, and human embryos: implications for stem cell research. Bonnie Steinbock -- 19.Therapeutic cloning: politics and policy. Andrea Bonnicksen -- Part VI: Genetics and enhancement -- 20.Population genetic research and screenign: conceptual and ethical issues. Eric T. Juengst -- 21.Enhancement. Thomas H. Murray -- 22.Genetic interventions and the ethics of enhancement of human beings. Julian Savulescu -- 23.Pharamcogenomics: ethical and regulatory issues. Matthew DeCamp and Allen Buchanan -- Part VII: Research ethics -- 24.Clinical equipoise: foundational requirements or fundamental error? Alex John London -- 25.Research on cognitively impaired adults. Jason Karlawish -- 26.Research in developing countries. Florencia Luna -- 27.Animal experimentation. Alastair Norcross -- Part VIII: Public and global health. 28.The implications of public health for bioethics. Jeffrey Kahn and Anna Mastroianni -- 29.Global health. Ruth Macklin -- 30.Biotechics and bioterrorism. Jonathan D. Moreno.
Bonnie Steinbock presents the authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics, covering 30 topics in original essays by some of the world's leading figures in the field, as well as by some newer 'up-and-comers'.