- ISBN: 9780195313826 | 0195313828
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/9/2009
Incorporating introductions, readings, and cases that span the breadth of the discipline, Contemporary Bioethics: A Reader with Cases captures the spirit of bioethics as a rich, exciting, and continually evolving field. It covers all the essential topics - including abortion, reproductiveethics, end-of-life care, research ethics, and allocation of resources - and also extends into cutting-edge areas like environmental sustainability, terrorism, neuroethics, immigration, genetic manipulations, and links between first- and third-world health. The book opens with a substantialintroduction that explores key differences between secular and religious modes of argumentation. Each of the following chapters contains an in-depth introduction, a selection of concise readings, discussion questions, and a collection of 7-10 case studies.
| Chapters 2-8 open with an Introduction and include References and Further Reading, an Article List, and Discussion Questions for the Readings. | |
| Bioethics: An Introduction to the Discipline | |
| What Is Bioethics? | |
| Bioethics: Theory and Method | |
| Religion and Bioethics | |
| Bioethics Comes of Age: An Expanding Moral Framework and Vocabulary | |
| References and Further Reading | |
| Doctors and Patients | |
| The Profession of Medicine | |
| ""I Swear by Apollo"": On Taking the Hippocratic Oath,"" | |
| ""Hippocratic Oath, Modern Version,"" | |
| ""Principles of Medical Ethics,"" American Medical Association | |
| ""Medical Professionalism in Society,"" | |
| The Obligations of Doctors to Their Patients | |
| ""Fundamental Elements of the Patient-Physician Relationship,"" American Medical Association | |
| ""Respect for Autonomy,"" | |
| ""The Meaning and Justification of Informed Consent,"" | |
| ""A Framework of Standards for Surrogate Decision Making,"" | |
| ""Truth Telling in Medicine: The Confucian View,"" | |
| ""Patient Confidentiality,"" American Medical Association | |
| ""A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality,"" | |
| Responsibilities of Patients | |
| ""Patient Responsibilities,"" American Medical Association | |
| ""The Patient's Work,"" Leonard C. Groopman | |
| ""Limits on Patient Responsibility,"" | |
| Doctors and Society | |
| ""Cosmetic Surgery and the Internal Morality of Medicine,"" | |
| ""When Doctors Go to War,"" | |
| ""Shifting Sands,"" | |
| Cases | |
| The White Coat | |
| Can a Killer Be a Doctor? | |
| Vaccine Skeptics Refuse to Inoculate Children | |
| Should Medical Students Believe in Evolution? The Case of Professor Dini | |
| Pillow Angel | |
| College Student Requests Modafinil | |
| At the End of Life | |
| Defining Death | |
| ""The Whole-Brain Concept of Death Remains Optimum Public Policy,"" | |
| ""The Conscience Clause"": How Much Individual Choice in Defining Death Can Our Society Tolerate? | |
| How Much Treatment? | |
| ""The Case for Mortality,"" | |
| ""Does Professional Autonomy Protect Medical Futility Judgments?"" | |
| Rejecting Treatment | |
| ""Autonomy, Wellbeing, and the Case of the Refusing Patient,"" | |
| ""The Severely Demented, Minimally Functional Patient: An Ethical Analysis,"" | |
| ""Extreme Prematurity and Parental Rights After Baby Doe,"" | |
| ""Has the Emphasis on Autonomy Gone Too Far?"" Insights from Dostoevsky on Parental Decisionmaking in the NICU | |
| ""Appropriate Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration"": Fundamental Principles and Recommendations | |
| ""Assisted Nutrition and Hydration and the Catholic Tradition,"" | |
| Hastening Death | |
| ""The Devil's Choice: Re-Thinking Law, Ethics, and Symptom Relief in Palliative Care,"" | |
| ""Voluntary Euthanasia"": A Utilitarian Perspective | |
| ""End of Life: The Buddhist View,"" | |
| ""Gender, Feminism, and Death"": Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia | |
| ""A Moral Defense of Oregon's Physician-Assisted Suicide Law,"" | |
| Cases | |
| Not Dead Yet--Part I | |
| Not Dead Yet--Part II (or There Is Cryonics in Baseball) | |
| Slow Medicine | |
| Is There Anybody in There? | |
| A Patient's Rights Act? The Limits of Patient Autonomy in Israel | |
| The Texas Advance Directives Act | |
| Don't Mess with Texas: Cancer, Custody, and Katie | |
| Not Dead Yet--Part III | |
| The Groningen Protocol--Euthanasia for Newborns | |
| A Friend in Need | |
| At the Beginnings of Life | |
| Abortion | |
| ""A Defense of Abortion,"" | |
| ""Abortion and the Beginning and End of Human Life,"" | |
| ""Feminist Discourse on Sex Screening and Selective Abortion of Female Foetuses,"" | |
| ""Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?"" | |
| ""The Limits of Conscientious Objection--May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception?"" | |
| Maternal-Fetal Relations | |
| ""Distinguishing Features of Women's Health Care,"" | |
| ""A Realistic Approach to Maternal-Fetal Conflict,"" | |
| Reproductive Technology | |
| ""What Are Families For? Getting to an Ethics of Reproductive Technology,"" | |
| ""Whose Bodies? Which Selves?"" Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments of Reproductive Technology | |
| ""Reproductive Gifts and Gift Giving: The Altruistic Woman,"" | |
| ""Two Questions About Surrogacy and Exploitation,"" | |
| Human Cloning | |
| ""Preventing A Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Cloning Now,"" | |
| ""Human Reproductive Cloning"": A Look at the Arguments Against It and a Rejection of Most of Them | |
| Cases | |
| Measure for Measure | |
| Where the Boys Are | |
| What's Plan C? Pharmacist Refusal to Distribute Plan B | |
| Safe in the Womb? | |
| McKnight v. South Carolina | |
| Amber Alert | |
| A Person, No Matter How Small? | |
| Veto Power | |
| Surrogacy Specialists of America (SSA) | |
| Free to Be Me (Again?) | |
| Distributing and Procuring Health Care Resources | |
| Access to Health Care | |
| ""Justice, Health, and Healthcare,"" | |
| ""Rights to Health Care, Social Justice, and Fairness in Health Care Allocations: Frustrations in the Face of Finitude,"" | |
| ""A Conservative Case for Universal Access to Health Care,"" | |
| ""Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, and Social Responsibility,"" | |
| Rationing | |
| ""Should Physicians Be Gatekeepers of Medical Resources?"" | |
| ""Rationing in the Intensive Care Unit,"" | |
| Organizational Ethics | |
| ""Justice and Managed Care"": Four Principles for the Just Allocation of Health Care Resources,"" | |
| ""Fulfilling Institutional Responsibilities in Health Care: Organizational Ethics and the Role of Mission Discernment,"" | |
| Organ Transplantation | |
| ""Responsibility, Alcoholism, and Liver Transplantation,"" | |
| ""Recovery of Transplantable Organs After Cardiac or Circulatory Death: Transforming the Paradigm for the Ethics of Organ Donation,"" | |
| ""Why We Are Not Allowed to Sell That Which We Are Encouraged to Donate,"" | |
| ""Presumed Consent, Autonomy, and Organ Donation,"" | |
| ""An 'Opting in' Paradigm for Kidney Transplantation,"" | |
| Cases | |
| The Health of Nations | |
| The ""Commonhealth"" of Massachusetts | |
| Should Illegal Immigrants Have Access to Health Care? | |
| Blue Cross Seeks Physician Informants | |
| Age-Based Rationing | |
| Living the Mission | |
| Early Harvest--Removing Organs After Cardiac Death | |
| Presumed Consent and Organ Donation | |
| Pat Summerall's New Liver | |
| Matchmakers | |
| Biomedical Research | |
| Research on Human Subjects | |
| ""The Nuremburg Code"" | |
| ""The Belmont Report"": Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research | |
| ""Declaration of Helsinki"": Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects, World Medical Association | |
| ""Making Research a Requirement of Treatment"": Why We Should Sometimes Let Doctors Pressure Patients to Participate in Research | |
| ""Guinea-Pigging,"" | |
| ""Justice and the Human Development Approach to International Research,"" Alex John London | |
| Stem Cell and Cloning Research | |
| ""Monitoring Stem Cell Research"": Introduction, President's Council on Bioethics | |
| ""Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research"": Vol. 3, Religious Perspectives, National Bioethics Advisory Commission | |
| ""Research with Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Ethical Considerations,"" Geron Ethics Advisory Board: Karen Lebacoz (CHAIR) | |
| Animals as Research Subjects (or Objects) | |
| ""The Ethics of Animal Research: What Are the Prospects for Agreement?"" | |
| ""International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals (1985),"" Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences | |
| ""Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research,"" National Research Council | |
| Cases | |
| Medicare Requires Heart Patients to Enlist in Research | |
| Empathic Mice | |
| Orphan Diseases | |
| In Defense of Animals (IDA) Urges NIH to Halt Animal Nicotine Experiments | |
| Pharmacological Research on Pregnant Women | |
| Stem Cell Research--""Dead"" Embryos? | |
| Dying Patients and the Right to Try Experimental Drugs | |
| Surgeon as Animal Rights Warrior | |
| Great Ape Protection Act | |
| Genetics, Biotechnology, and Posthuman Possibilities | |
| Technological Manipulations and Posthuman Futures | |
| ""Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness: An Introduction,"" President's Council on Bioethics | |
| ""The Case Against Perfection,"" | |
| ""Gene Therapies and the Pursuit of a Better Human,"" | |
| ""Jewish Reflections on Genetic Enhancement,"" | |
| ""Transhumanist Values,"" | |
| Enhancing the Mind | |
| ""Treatment, Enhancement, and the Ethics of Neurotherapeutics,"" | |
| ""Memory and Happiness,"" President's Council on Bioethics | |
| Genetics and Future Children | |
| ""Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future,"" | |
| ""Extending Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Medical and Non-Medical Uses,"" | |
| Cases | |
| DNAdirect.com: Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Genetic Tests | |
| Playing God in the West, but Not in the East | |
| Myriad Genetics and the BRCA-2 Gene | |
| Mo Money | |
| Consumer Eugenics | |
| Williams Syndrome and PGD | |
| Better Brains Through ""Chemistry"" | |
| Therapeutic Forgetting | |
| Soul Catcher 2025 | |
| Be More Than You Can Be | |
| The Environmental Turn in Bioethics | |
| Redefining Bioethics, Redefining Health | |
| ""Health is Membership,"" | |
| ""Toward an Ecological View of Health: An Imperative for the Twenty-First Century,"" | |
| ""New Ways of Thinking About Bioethics,"" | |
| Health and the Environment | |
| ""Global Environmental Change and Health:"" Impacts, Inequalities, and the Health Sector | |
| ""Embedded in Nature"": Human Health and Biodiversity"" | |
| Sustainable Health Care | |
| ""Sustainable Health Care and Emerging Ethical Responsibilities,"" | |
| ""Medicine After Oil"": It Could Be Distributed a Lot More Democratically | |
| ""Deep Ecology and End-of-Life Care,"" | |
| ""Declaration of Professional Responsibility"": Medicine's Social Contract with Humanity, American Medical Association | |
| ""Stewardship of the Environment: Policy H-135.973,"" American Medical Association | |
| Cases | |
| Malaria and DDT | |
| Physicians and the Environmental Imperative | |
| Population Connection | |
| Sustainable Trials | |
| Asthma Inhalers and Ozone | |
| Mussels on Prozac | |
| Index | |
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