Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics

✍ Scribed by Nafsika Athanassoulis

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What is wrong with selecting and implanting a deaf embryo? What are 'designer babies' and why can't we choose to have them? Is there a right to know one's genetic origins? Should we allow a market in transplant organs? Are doctors justified in refusing to perform treatments on conscientious grounds? These and many other diverse questions are considered in this collection of essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics. Leading philosophers give in-depth accounts of some of the most pressing questions and challenge our most basic assumptions in this area of academic as well as public interest. Provocative and original, the contributions to this volume are bound to change the way we think about medical ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
1 Benefit, Disability and the Non-Identity Problem......Page 35
2 ‘Designer Babies’, Instrumentalisation and the Child’s Right to an Open Future......Page 55
3 Why There is no Right to Know One’s Genetic Origins......Page 81
4 Compromise and Moral Complicity in the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate......Page 99
5 Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering......Page 120
6 Autonomy, Inducements and Organ Sales......Page 146
7 The Role of Conscience in Medical Ethics......Page 171
8 The Treatment that Leaves Something to Luck......Page 191
9 Passive Death......Page 209
F......Page 219
P......Page 220
W......Page 221