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A collection celebrating some of the best essays from the Blackwell journals, Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics.

  • Contributors include Helga Kuhse, Michael Selgelid and Baroness Mary Warnock, former Chair of the British Government''s Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilization and Embryology''s.
  • Traces some of the most important concerns of the 1980s, such as the ethics of euthanasia, reproductive technologies, the allocation of scarce medical resources, surrogate motherhood, through to a range of new issues debated today, particularly in the field of genetics.
  • Includes contributions that are still as hotly debated today as they were 20 years ago and serves as a salutary reminder that free and open discussion is vital to the health of the discipline itself.
  • Includes eight sections comprising some of the journals'' best publications in methodological issues, the health care professional-patient relationship,

    Trade Review
    ‘A nice synthesis of some developments in the field that will be useful to those who dabble in bioethics, or who are interested in seeing what new areas of research have emerged alongside new technological advances and growing globalization. It is a nice supplement to some of the more traditional collections of contributions to this growing field.’
    J. Jeremy Wisnewski, PhD, Hartwick College
    From Metapsychology Online Reviews (Volume 12, Issue 7)
    For the full review please visit: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4071

    Table of Contents

    Introduction xi
    Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer

    Part I: Doing Bioethics 1

    1. A Report from America When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip 3
    James Rachels

    2. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below 9
    Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos

    3. What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations 33
    Erica Hajmes

    4. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity 58
    Nick Bostrom

    Part II: Healthcare Professional–Patient Relationship 71

    5. Patients’ Responsibilities in Medical Ethics 73
    Heather Draper and Tom Sorell

    6. Clinical Ethics and Nursing: ‘Yes’ to Caring, But ‘No’ to a Female Ethics of Care 91
    Helga Kuhse

    7. Psychiatric Ethics 104
    Jennifer Radden

    8. Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification 119
    Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson

    Part III: Just Health Care 143

    9. Patents and Access to Drugs in Developing Countries: An Ethical Analysis 145
    Sigrid Sterckx

    10. Justice and Equal Opportunities in Health Care 162
    John Harris

    11. Constraints and Heroes 175
    Carl Elliott

    Part IV: Public Health Ethics 187

    12. The Genesis of Public Health Ethics 189
    Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild

    13. Ethics and Infectious Disease 209
    Michael J. Selgelid

    14. Vaccination and the Prevention Problem 226
    Angus Dawson

    Part V: Research Ethics 241

    15. International Research Ethics 243
    Udo Schüklenk and Richard Ashcroft

    16. Equipoise and International Human-Subjects Research 258
    Alex John London

    17. Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma 279
    David B. Resnik

    18. Some Questions about the Moral Responsibilities of Drug Companies in Developing Countries 301
    Dan W. Brock

    19. Social Responsibility and Global Pharmaceutical Companies 306
    Norman Daniels

    Part VI: Genetics 311

    20. Do Human Cells Have Rights? 313
    Mary Warnock

    21. Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy 328
    Søren Holm

    22. Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome 342
    Nicholas Agar

    23. The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms – the Case of Wrongful Handicaps358
    Dan W. Brock

    24. Coding and Consent: Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland 365
    Vilhjálmur Árnason

    Part VII: Beginning of Life Issues 387

    25. Is It Good to Make Happy People? 389
    Stuart Rachels

    26. Genes, Embryos, and Future People 408
    Walter Glannon

    27. Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children 434
    Julian Savulescu

    28. The Problem of Abortion: Essentially Contested Concepts and Moral Autonomy 447
    Susanne Gibson

    29. The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood 459
    Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens

    30. The Limits of Conscientious Objection to Abortion in the Developing World 477
    Louis-Jacques van Bogaert

    31. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment? 490
    Laura M. Purdy

    Part VIII: End of Life 509

    32. The Metaphysics of Brain Death 511
    Jeff McMahan

    33. Advance Directives, Autonomy and Unintended Death 551
    Jim Stone

    34. End of Life Care in HIV-Infected Children Who Died in Hospital 576
    Lesley D. Henley

    Index 592

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      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/07/2007
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      Book Synopsis

      A collection celebrating some of the best essays from the Blackwell journals, Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics.

      • Contributors include Helga Kuhse, Michael Selgelid and Baroness Mary Warnock, former Chair of the British Government''s Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilization and Embryology''s.
      • Traces some of the most important concerns of the 1980s, such as the ethics of euthanasia, reproductive technologies, the allocation of scarce medical resources, surrogate motherhood, through to a range of new issues debated today, particularly in the field of genetics.
      • Includes contributions that are still as hotly debated today as they were 20 years ago and serves as a salutary reminder that free and open discussion is vital to the health of the discipline itself.
      • Includes eight sections comprising some of the journals'' best publications in methodological issues, the health care professional-patient relationship,

        Trade Review
        ‘A nice synthesis of some developments in the field that will be useful to those who dabble in bioethics, or who are interested in seeing what new areas of research have emerged alongside new technological advances and growing globalization. It is a nice supplement to some of the more traditional collections of contributions to this growing field.’
        J. Jeremy Wisnewski, PhD, Hartwick College
        From Metapsychology Online Reviews (Volume 12, Issue 7)
        For the full review please visit: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4071

        Table of Contents

        Introduction xi
        Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer

        Part I: Doing Bioethics 1

        1. A Report from America When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip 3
        James Rachels

        2. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below 9
        Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos

        3. What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations 33
        Erica Hajmes

        4. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity 58
        Nick Bostrom

        Part II: Healthcare Professional–Patient Relationship 71

        5. Patients’ Responsibilities in Medical Ethics 73
        Heather Draper and Tom Sorell

        6. Clinical Ethics and Nursing: ‘Yes’ to Caring, But ‘No’ to a Female Ethics of Care 91
        Helga Kuhse

        7. Psychiatric Ethics 104
        Jennifer Radden

        8. Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification 119
        Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson

        Part III: Just Health Care 143

        9. Patents and Access to Drugs in Developing Countries: An Ethical Analysis 145
        Sigrid Sterckx

        10. Justice and Equal Opportunities in Health Care 162
        John Harris

        11. Constraints and Heroes 175
        Carl Elliott

        Part IV: Public Health Ethics 187

        12. The Genesis of Public Health Ethics 189
        Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild

        13. Ethics and Infectious Disease 209
        Michael J. Selgelid

        14. Vaccination and the Prevention Problem 226
        Angus Dawson

        Part V: Research Ethics 241

        15. International Research Ethics 243
        Udo Schüklenk and Richard Ashcroft

        16. Equipoise and International Human-Subjects Research 258
        Alex John London

        17. Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma 279
        David B. Resnik

        18. Some Questions about the Moral Responsibilities of Drug Companies in Developing Countries 301
        Dan W. Brock

        19. Social Responsibility and Global Pharmaceutical Companies 306
        Norman Daniels

        Part VI: Genetics 311

        20. Do Human Cells Have Rights? 313
        Mary Warnock

        21. Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy 328
        Søren Holm

        22. Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome 342
        Nicholas Agar

        23. The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms – the Case of Wrongful Handicaps358
        Dan W. Brock

        24. Coding and Consent: Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland 365
        Vilhjálmur Árnason

        Part VII: Beginning of Life Issues 387

        25. Is It Good to Make Happy People? 389
        Stuart Rachels

        26. Genes, Embryos, and Future People 408
        Walter Glannon

        27. Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children 434
        Julian Savulescu

        28. The Problem of Abortion: Essentially Contested Concepts and Moral Autonomy 447
        Susanne Gibson

        29. The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood 459
        Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens

        30. The Limits of Conscientious Objection to Abortion in the Developing World 477
        Louis-Jacques van Bogaert

        31. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment? 490
        Laura M. Purdy

        Part VIII: End of Life 509

        32. The Metaphysics of Brain Death 511
        Jeff McMahan

        33. Advance Directives, Autonomy and Unintended Death 551
        Jim Stone

        34. End of Life Care in HIV-Infected Children Who Died in Hospital 576
        Lesley D. Henley

        Index 592

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