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Book SynopsisThis book explores the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality. Bioethics, if it is to be effective, must engage with and address the actualities of modern life: policies, regulations, markets, opinions, and technological advances. In these original contributions fifteen notable scholars working in the North West of England take on this challenge. The series Values in Bioethics makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.
Trade Review”This book should be of interest to a wide readership … Its main strength lies in the clear presentation of a number of controversial issues that impinge on current health care planning and practice.” in: Nursing Ethics 12(6), 2005
Table of ContentsForeword by John Harris Preface Introduction Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, and Peter Herissone-Kelly: The Social Reality of Bioethics ONE Harry LESSER: The Case of Back-Street Abortion TWO Doris SCHROEDER: Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and the Duty to Die THREE Matti HÄYRY: Forget Autonomy and Give Me Freedom! FOUR Monique JONAS: Choosing Between Claims: Allocating Parental Responsibility in Surrogacy Disputes FIVE Tuija TAKALA: The Many Wrongs of Human Reproductive Cloning SIX Louise IRVING: The Problem of Intangibles SEVEN Eve GARRARD and Stephen WILKINSON: Mind the Gap: The Use of Empirical Evidence in Bioethics EIGHT Angus DAWSON: Informed Consent: Bioethical Ideal and Empirical Reality NINE Søren HOLM: What Empirical Bioethics Can Learn from Empirical Business Ethics TEN Jukka KILPI: On Corporate Ethical Responsibility, Stakeholder Value, and Strict Liability in Biotechnology ELEVEN Peter LUCAS: Perspectivism in Risk Management TWELVE Simon WOODS: Moral Progress THIRTEEN Mark SHEEHAN: Healthcare and (a Kind of) Virtue Ethics FOURTEEN Peter HERISSONE-KELLY: Bioethics, Rights-Based Consequentialism, and Social Reality About the Editors and Contributors Index
