A companion to bioethics

✍ Scribed by Kuhse, Helga(Editor);Singer, Peter

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009;2015
• Tongue: English
• Series: Blackwell companions to philosophy
• Edition: Enhanced Credo edition.,2nd edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This second edition ofA 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

✦ Table of Contents

List of contributors --
Acknowledgments --
Part I. Introduction: 1. What is bioethics? a historical introduction --
Part II. Questions about bioethics: 2. Ethical theory and bioethics
3. Culture and bioethics
4. Gender and bioethics
5. Religion and bioethics
6. Law and bioethics --
Part III. Ethical approaches: 7. A principle-based approach
8. Exceptionless rule approaches
9. A utilitarian approach
10. A virtue ethics approach
11. A care approach
12. A case approach --
Part IV. Before birth: issues involving embryos and fetuses: 13. Personhood
14. Abortion
15. Mother & fetus conflict
Part V Issues in reproduction
16. Population
17. Assisted reproduction, prenatal testing, and sex selection
18. Cloning --
Part VI. The new genetics: 19. Gene therapy
20. Genetic enhancement
21. Creating and patenting new life forms
22. Genetic counseling, testing, and screening --
Part VII. Life and death issues: 23. Medical decisions at the end of life
24. Severely disabled newborns
25. Death, brain death, and persistent vegetative state
26. Advance directives
27. Voluntary euthanasia, suicide, and physician-assisted suicide
28. The slippery slope argument. Part VIII. Resource allocation: 29. Deciding between patients
30. Society's allocation of resources for health
31. Is There a right to health care and, if so, what does it encompass? --
Part IX. Organ donations: 32. A world of transferable parts --
Part X. Global health-care issues: 33. Global health responsibilities
34. Developing world challenges
35. Global pharmaceutical markets
36. Infectious disease
37. AIDS as a global health emergency --
Part XI. Experimentation with humans and animals: 38. Research involving human beings
39. Regulating experimentation in research and medical practice
40. Research using preimplantation human embryos
41. The moral status of animals and their use as experimental subjects --
Part XII. Ethical issues in the practice of health care: 42. Confidentiality
43. Truth-telling
44. Informed consent and patient autonomy
45. Patients doubtfully capable or incapable of consent
46. Ethics in nursing practice
47. Global trends in nursing ethics --
Part XIII. The teaching and practice of bioethics: 48. Ethics committees and ethics consultants
49. Teaching ethics in the health professions.

✦ Subjects

Philosophy;Nonfiction