From Reason to Practice in Bioethics: An Anthology Dedicated to the Works of John Harris(Contemporary Issues in Bioethics)

From reason to practice in bioethics brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading scholars in the field of bioethics. With a particular focus on, and critical engagement with, the influential work of Professor John Harris, the book provides a detailed exploration of some of the most interesting and challenging philosophical and practical questions raised in bioethics. The book's broad range of chapters will make it a useful resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in the field of bioethics, and the relationship between philosophical and practical ethics. The range of contributors and topics afford the book a wide international interest.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Introductions 1. Editors’ introduction – John Coggon, Sarah Chan, Søren Holm, and Thomasine Kushner 2. Thought and memory – John Harris Part II: Grounding moral arguments 3. On moral nose – Jonathan Glover 4. Hanging around with Jackson: consistency in ethical argument, and how to avoid it – Richard Ashcroft 5. The unbearable desire for explicitness and rationality in bioethics – Michael Parker and Micaela Ghisleni 6. Moral epistemology and the survival lottery –Torbjörn Tännsjö 7. Harris and the criticism of the status quo – Florencia Luna 8. The natural as a moral category – Harry Lesser 9. Making sense of human dignity – Deryck Beyleveld 10. Why we should save the anthropocentric person – Simon Woods Part III: From ethics to policy and practice 11. Why the reasonable man is not always right? – Margaret Brazier 12. Why the body matters: reflections on John Harris’s account of organ procurement – Alastair V. Campbell 13. Harris’s principle of justice in health care – Ruth Macklin 14. Equality revisited – Andrew Edgar 15. The safety of the people and the case against invasive health promotion – Andreas Hasman 16. Could we reduce racism with one easy dip? What a thought-experiment about race-colour change makes us see – Margaret P. Battin 17. Against mumps, Meursault, McDonald’s and Marlboro: On the immunization of children against smoking, alcohol and drugs – Inez de Beaufort 18. Killing and allowing to die – Raanan Gillon Part IV: John Harris responds 19. Response to and reflections on chapters 3-18 – John Harris Bibliography Index