This second edition of A 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 xi Acknowledgments xiii
Part I Introduction 1
1 What Is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction 3
Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
Part II Questions About Bioethics 13
2 Ethical Theory and Bioethics 15
James Rachels
3 Culture and Bioethics 24
Segun Gbadegesin
4 Gender and Bioethics 36
Jan Crosthwaite
5 Religion and Bioethics 46
Eric Gregory
6 Law and Bioethics 56
Wibren van der Burg
Part III Ethical Approaches 65
7 A Principle-based Approach 67
James F. Childress
8 Exceptionless Rule Approaches 77
Joseph Boyle
9 A Utilitarian Approach 85
R. M. Hare
10 A Virtue Ethics Approach 91
Justin Oakley
11 A Care Approach 105
Rita C. Manning
12 A Case Approach 117
John D. Arras
Part IV Before Birth: Issues Involving Embryos and Fetuses 127
13 Personhood 129
Michael Tooley
14 Abortion 140
Mary Anne Warren
15 Mother–Fetus Conflict 149
Bonnie Steinbock
Part V Issues In Reproduction 161
16 Population 163
Margaret Pabst Battin
17 Assisted Reproduction, Prenatal Testing, and Sex Selection 178
Laura M. Purdy
18 Cloning 193
Gregory Pence
Part VI The New Genetics 205
19 Gene Therapy 207
Ruth Chadwick
20 Genetic Enhancement 216
Julian Savulescu
21 Creating and Patenting New Life Forms 235
Nils Holtug
22 Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Screening 245
Angus Clarke
Part VII Life and Death Issues 261
23 Medical Decisions at the End of Life 263
Dan W. Brock
24 Severely Disabled Newborns 274
Eike-Henner W. Kluge
25 Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State 286
Jeff McMahan
26 Advance Directives 299
Alexander Morgan Capron
27 Voluntary Euthanasia, Suicide, and Physician-assisted Suicide 312
Brian Stoffell
28 The Slippery Slope Argument 321
Govert den Hartogh
Part VIII Resource Allocation 333
29 Deciding Between Patients 335
John Harris
30 Society's Allocation of Resources for Health 351
Daniel Wikler and Sarah Marchand
31 Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does It Encompass? 362
Norman Daniels
Part IX Organ Donations 373
32 A World of Transferable Parts 375
Janet Radcliffe Richards
Part X Global Health-care Issues 391
33 Global Health Responsibilities 393
Christopher Lowry and Udo Schüklenk
34 Developing World Challenges 404
Udo Schüklenk, Michael Kottow, and Peter A. Sy
35 Global Pharmaceutical Markets 417
Kevin Outterson and Donald W. Light
36 Infectious Disease 430
Michael J. Selgelid
37 AIDS as a Global Health Emergency 441
Udo Schüklenk
Part XI Experimentation With Humans and Animals 455
38 Research Involving Human Beings 457
Florencia Luna and Ruth Macklin
39 Regulating Experimentation in Research and Medical Practice 469
Paul Ulhas Macneill
40 Research Using Preimplantation Human Embryos 487
Mary Warnock and Peter Braude
41 The Moral Status of Animals and Their Use As Experimental Subjects 495
Bernard E. Rollin
PART XII Ethical Issues in the Practice of Health Care 511
42 Confidentiality 513
Raanan Gillon and Daniel K. Sokol
43 Truth-telling 520
Roger Higgs
44 Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy 530
Robert Young
45 Patients Doubtfully Capable or Incapable of Consent 541
Carl Elliott
46 Ethics in Nursing Practice 551
Janet L. Storch
47 Global Trends in Nursing Ethics 563
Verena Tschudin
Part XIII The Teaching and Practice of Bioethics 571
48 Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants 573
Jonathan D. Moreno
49 Teaching Ethics in the Health Professions 584
Lynn Gillam
Index 594
About the Author :
Helga Kuhse is Adjunct Research Associate, School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Australia. She is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 150 professional articles and some 15 books, including Bioethics: An Anthology (co-edited with Peter Singer, second edition, Blackwell, 2006). Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books, including Animal Liberation (first published in 1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement, Practical Ethics (second edition, 1993), In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Blackwell, 2005), The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (co-edited with Renata Singer, Blackwell, 2004) and The Life You Can Save (2009). He was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and in 2005 Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Review :
"The contributors are all experts in the field, and this shows in the quality and breadth of information provided... the Companion is still the best secondary source in navigating the complex and ever-evolving field of bioethics." (Metapsychology, December 2010)
"The second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, edited by ethicists Singer (Princeton) and Kuhse (Monash Univ., Australia), should be... a standard one-volume reference work in the field of bioethics. The book's helpful summary of the field's major debates makes it especially helpful for smaller collections that do not procure many of the increasingly specialized monographs on narrow bioethical issues. The book also features a wide range of authors-- from such established scholars as James Childress and the late R. M. Hare to new voices in the field, such as Eric Gregory, who contributes an essay titled "Religion and Bioethics." The essays in the collection are accessible to many levels of readers; those unfamiliar with these debates will find the essays helpful introductions, and specialists will find new readings of classic works or new perspectives on old debates. This important, comprehensive, and superbly edited reference work will prove useful to students and scholars at all levels and a worthwhile addition to all collections." (CHOICE, July 2010) "The reader or student who is interested in bioethics and wants to get a picture about the main questions on this subject will find excellent answers in this exquisite publication edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer. The goal of the editors was to give as complete a picture as possible, choosing very carefully from the theme of bioethics; they succeeded in their goal. This success was achieved because the authors of the book are acknowledged and respected scientists and teachers of bioethics, and they used their experience to give the reader an insight into their subject material." (Nursing Ethics)
"Although the growth of bioethical discussion and practice has been huge in the last decades, the contents of the book provide a good introduction to the whole of the discipline, from discussions about the relationship between bioethics and law, culture, gender, or religion, to a survey of the different approaches available in ethical theory…. Together with an useful index and directory, and its accompanying volume of classical texts Bioethics: An Anthology, … this book provides an ideal basis for course and committee use in this field, and will be of interest to doctors, therapists, lawyers, journalists, and philosophers alike. Not to forget, of course, patients -- a group we all are likely to join at one time or another." (MentalHelp.net)
