A Companion to Bioethics
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
2. Edition October 2009
640 Pages, Hardcover
Professional Book
ISBN:
978-1-4051-6331-6
John Wiley & Sons
Short Description
A Companion to Bioethics presents the central issues and concepts in bioethics in an authoritative yet highly accessible manner. Now fully revised and updated to reflect the current state of the field, the 49 essays, each specially written by leading experts, span an unparalleled range of topics, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and death, organ donations, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, health care, and teaching. Subjects new to this edition include cloning, genetic enhancement, infectious disease, and bioethics in the developing world.
This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.
* Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, health care, and teaching
* Now includes new essays on currently controversial topics such as cloning and genetic enhancement
* Topics are clearly and compellingly presented by internationally renowned bioethicists
* A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves
TOC from first edition].
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Acknowledgements.
Part I: Introduction:.
1. What is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction: Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.
Part II: Questions About Bioethics:.
2. Ethical Theory and Bioethics: James Rachels.
3. Bioethics and Cultural Diversity: Segun Gbadegesin.
4. Gender and Bioethics: Jan Crosthwaite.
5. Religion and Bioethics: Baruch Brody.
6. Law and Bioethics: Wibren van der Burg.
Part III: Ethical Approaches:.
7. A Principle-based Approach: James F. Childress.
8. An Absolute Rule Approach: Joseph Boyle.
9. A Utilitarian Approach: R. M. Hare.
10. A Virtue Ethics Approach: Justin Oakley.
11. A Care Approach: Rita C. Manning.
12. A Case Approach: John D. Arras.
Part IV: Before Birth: Issues Involving Embryos and Fetuses:.
13. Personhood: Michael Tooley.
14. Abortion: Mary Ann Warren.
15. Mother-Fetus Conflict: Bonnie Steinbock.
Part V: Issues in Reproduction:.
16. Population Issues: Margaret Battin.
17. Assisted Reproduction: Laura Purdy.
18. Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection and Cloning: Paul Robinson.
Part VI: The New Genetics:.
19. Gene Therapy: Ruth Chadwick.
20. Mapping the Human Genome: Timothy Murphy.
21. Creating and Patenting New Life Forms: Nils Holtug.
22. Genetic Screening and Counselling: Angus Clarke.
Part VII: Life and Death Issues:.
23. Medical Decisions at the End of Life: Dan W. Brock.
24. Severely Disabled Newborns: Eike-Henner W. Kluge.
25. Brain Death, Cortical Death and Persistent Vegetative State: Jeff McMahan.
26. Advance Directives: Alex Capron.
27. Voluntary Euthanasia, Suicide and Physician Assisted Suicide: Brian Stoffell.
28. The Slippery Slope Argument: Govert den Hartogh.
Part VIII: Resource Allocation:.
29. Micro-allocation: Deciding Between Patients: John Harris.
30. Macro-allocation: Dividing Up the Health Care Budget: Dan Wikler and Sarah Marchand.
31. Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does it Encompass?: Norman Daniels.
Part IX: Organ Donations:.
32. Organ Transplantation: Rosamund Rhodes.
Part X: AIDS:.
33. AIDS: Individual and 'Public' Interests: Udo Schuklenk.
34. AIDS: Ethical Issues in the Developing World: Udo Schuklenk et al.
Part XI: Experimentation With Human Subjects:.
35. Experimentation on Human Beings: Paul M. McNeill.
36. Ethical Issues in Human Experimentation: Leonardo D. de Castro.
37. Experimentation on Human Embryos and Fetuses: Mary Warnock.
Part XII: Experimentation with Animals:.
38. History and Ethical Regulation of Animal Experimentation: An International Perspective: F. Barbara Orlans.
39. The Moral Status of Animals and Their Use as Experimental Subjects: Bernard E. Rollins.
Part XIII: Ethical Issues in the Practice of Health Care:.
40. Confidentiality: Raanan Gillon.
41. Truth-telling: Roger Higgs.
42. Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy: Robert Young.
43. Patients Doubtfully Capable or Incapable of Consent: Carl Elliot.
44. Special Issues Facing Nurses: Verena Tschudin.
Part XIV: The Teaching and Practice of Bioethics:.
45. Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants: Jonathan D. Moreno.
46. How Bioethics is Being Taught: A Critical Review: Cat Myser.
Index.
.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Introduction:.
1. What is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction: Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.
Part II: Questions About Bioethics:.
2. Ethical Theory and Bioethics: James Rachels.
3. Bioethics and Cultural Diversity: Segun Gbadegesin.
4. Gender and Bioethics: Jan Crosthwaite.
5. Religion and Bioethics: Baruch Brody.
6. Law and Bioethics: Wibren van der Burg.
Part III: Ethical Approaches:.
7. A Principle-based Approach: James F. Childress.
8. An Absolute Rule Approach: Joseph Boyle.
9. A Utilitarian Approach: R. M. Hare.
10. A Virtue Ethics Approach: Justin Oakley.
11. A Care Approach: Rita C. Manning.
12. A Case Approach: John D. Arras.
Part IV: Before Birth: Issues Involving Embryos and Fetuses:.
13. Personhood: Michael Tooley.
14. Abortion: Mary Ann Warren.
15. Mother-Fetus Conflict: Bonnie Steinbock.
Part V: Issues in Reproduction:.
16. Population Issues: Margaret Battin.
17. Assisted Reproduction: Laura Purdy.
18. Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection and Cloning: Paul Robinson.
Part VI: The New Genetics:.
19. Gene Therapy: Ruth Chadwick.
20. Mapping the Human Genome: Timothy Murphy.
21. Creating and Patenting New Life Forms: Nils Holtug.
22. Genetic Screening and Counselling: Angus Clarke.
Part VII: Life and Death Issues:.
23. Medical Decisions at the End of Life: Dan W. Brock.
24. Severely Disabled Newborns: Eike-Henner W. Kluge.
25. Brain Death, Cortical Death and Persistent Vegetative State: Jeff McMahan.
26. Advance Directives: Alex Capron.
27. Voluntary Euthanasia, Suicide and Physician Assisted Suicide: Brian Stoffell.
28. The Slippery Slope Argument: Govert den Hartogh.
Part VIII: Resource Allocation:.
29. Micro-allocation: Deciding Between Patients: John Harris.
30. Macro-allocation: Dividing Up the Health Care Budget: Dan Wikler and Sarah Marchand.
31. Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does it Encompass?: Norman Daniels.
Part IX: Organ Donations:.
32. Organ Transplantation: Rosamund Rhodes.
Part X: AIDS:.
33. AIDS: Individual and 'Public' Interests: Udo Schuklenk.
34. AIDS: Ethical Issues in the Developing World: Udo Schuklenk et al.
Part XI: Experimentation With Human Subjects:.
35. Experimentation on Human Beings: Paul M. McNeill.
36. Ethical Issues in Human Experimentation: Leonardo D. de Castro.
37. Experimentation on Human Embryos and Fetuses: Mary Warnock.
Part XII: Experimentation with Animals:.
38. History and Ethical Regulation of Animal Experimentation: An International Perspective: F. Barbara Orlans.
39. The Moral Status of Animals and Their Use as Experimental Subjects: Bernard E. Rollins.
Part XIII: Ethical Issues in the Practice of Health Care:.
40. Confidentiality: Raanan Gillon.
41. Truth-telling: Roger Higgs.
42. Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy: Robert Young.
43. Patients Doubtfully Capable or Incapable of Consent: Carl Elliot.
44. Special Issues Facing Nurses: Verena Tschudin.
Part XIV: The Teaching and Practice of Bioethics:.
45. Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants: Jonathan D. Moreno.
46. How Bioethics is Being Taught: A Critical Review: Cat Myser.
Index.
"The contributors are all experts in the field, and this shows in the quality and breadth of information provided... the Companion is still the best secondary source in navigating the complex and ever-evolving field of bioethics." (Metapsychology, December 2010)
"The second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, edited by ethicists Singer (Princeton) and Kuhse (Monash Univ., Australia), should be... a standard one-volume reference work in the field of bioethics. The book's helpful summary of the field's major debates makes it especially helpful for smaller collections that do not procure many of the increasingly specialized monographs on narrow bioethical issues. The book also features a wide range of authors-- from such established scholars as James Childress and the late R. M. Hare to new voices in the field, such as Eric Gregory, who contributes an essay titled "Religion and Bioethics." The essays in the collection are accessible to many levels of readers; those unfamiliar with these debates will find the essays helpful introductions, and specialists will find new readings of classic works or new perspectives on old debates. This important, comprehensive, and superbly edited reference work will prove useful to students and scholars at all levels and a worthwhile addition to all collections." (CHOICE, July 2010)
"The reader or student who is interested in bioethics and wants to get a picture about the main questions on this subject will find excellent answers in this exquisite publication edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer. The goal of the editors was to give as complete a picture as possible, choosing very carefully from the theme of bioethics; they succeeded in their goal. This success was achieved because the authors of the book are acknowledged and respected scientists and teachers of bioethics, and they used their experience to give the reader an insight into their subject material." (Nursing Ethics)
"Although the growth of bioethical discussion and practice has been huge in the last decades, the contents of the book provide a good introduction to the whole of the discipline, from discussions about the relationship between bioethics and law, culture, gender, or religion, to a survey of the different approaches available in ethical theory.... Together with an useful index and directory, and its accompanying volume of classical texts Bioethics: An Anthology, ... this book provides an ideal basis for course and committee use in this field, and will be of interest to doctors, therapists, lawyers, journalists, and philosophers alike. Not to forget, of course, patients -- a group we all are likely to join at one time or another." (MentalHelp.net)
"The second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, edited by ethicists Singer (Princeton) and Kuhse (Monash Univ., Australia), should be... a standard one-volume reference work in the field of bioethics. The book's helpful summary of the field's major debates makes it especially helpful for smaller collections that do not procure many of the increasingly specialized monographs on narrow bioethical issues. The book also features a wide range of authors-- from such established scholars as James Childress and the late R. M. Hare to new voices in the field, such as Eric Gregory, who contributes an essay titled "Religion and Bioethics." The essays in the collection are accessible to many levels of readers; those unfamiliar with these debates will find the essays helpful introductions, and specialists will find new readings of classic works or new perspectives on old debates. This important, comprehensive, and superbly edited reference work will prove useful to students and scholars at all levels and a worthwhile addition to all collections." (CHOICE, July 2010)
"The reader or student who is interested in bioethics and wants to get a picture about the main questions on this subject will find excellent answers in this exquisite publication edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer. The goal of the editors was to give as complete a picture as possible, choosing very carefully from the theme of bioethics; they succeeded in their goal. This success was achieved because the authors of the book are acknowledged and respected scientists and teachers of bioethics, and they used their experience to give the reader an insight into their subject material." (Nursing Ethics)
"Although the growth of bioethical discussion and practice has been huge in the last decades, the contents of the book provide a good introduction to the whole of the discipline, from discussions about the relationship between bioethics and law, culture, gender, or religion, to a survey of the different approaches available in ethical theory.... Together with an useful index and directory, and its accompanying volume of classical texts Bioethics: An Anthology, ... this book provides an ideal basis for course and committee use in this field, and will be of interest to doctors, therapists, lawyers, journalists, and philosophers alike. Not to forget, of course, patients -- a group we all are likely to join at one time or another." (MentalHelp.net)
Helga Kuhse is Adjunct Research Associate, School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Australia. She is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 150 professional articles and some 15 books, including Bioethics: An Anthology (co-edited with Peter Singer, second edition, Blackwell, 2006).
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books, including Animal Liberation (first published in 1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement, Practical Ethics (second edition, 1993), In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Blackwell, 2005), The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (co-edited with Renata Singer, Blackwell, 2004) and The Life You Can Save (2009). He was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and in 2005 Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books, including Animal Liberation (first published in 1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement, Practical Ethics (second edition, 1993), In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Blackwell, 2005), The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (co-edited with Renata Singer, Blackwell, 2004) and The Life You Can Save (2009). He was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and in 2005 Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
