A Companion to Bioethics (eBook)

Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0782-5 (ISBN)

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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

Autor

Helga Kuhse is Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Human 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 at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than forty books, including Animal Liberation (first published in 1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement, Practical Ethics (Third Edition, 2011), 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.

Inhalt

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Part I Introduction.

1 What Is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction (Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer).

Part II Questions About Bioethics.

2 Ethical Theory and Bioethics (James Rachels).

3 Culture and Bioethics (Segun Gbadegesin).

4 Gender and Bioethics (Jan Crosthwaite).

5 Religion and Bioethics (Eric Gregory).

6 Law and Bioethics (Wibren van der Burg).

Part III Ethical Approaches.

7 A Principle-based Approach (James F. Childress).

8 Exceptionless Rule Approaches (Joseph Boyle).

9 A Utilitarian Approach (R. M. Hare).

10 A Virtue Ethics Approach (Justin Oakley).

11 A Care Approach (Rita C. Manning).

12 A Case Approach (John D. Arras).

Part IV Before Birth: Issues Involving Embryos and Fetuses.

13 Personhood (Michael Tooley).

14 Abortion (Mary Anne Warren).

15 Mother-Fetus Conflict (Bonnie Steinbock).

Part V Issues In Reproduction.

16 Population (Margaret Pabst Battin).

17 Assisted Reproduction, Prenatal Testing, and Sex Selection (Laura M. Purdy).

18 Cloning (Gregory Pence).

Part VI The New Genetics.

19 Gene Therapy (Ruth Chadwick).

20 Genetic Enhancement (Julian Savulescu).

21 Creating and Patenting New Life Forms (Nils Holtug).

22 Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Screening (Angus Clarke).

Part VII Life and Death Issues.

23 Medical Decisions at the End of Life (Dan W. Brock).

24 Severely Disabled Newborns (Eike-Henner W. Kluge).

25 Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State (Jeff McMahan).

26 Advance Directives (Alexander Morgan Capron).

27 Voluntary Euthanasia, Suicide, and Physician-assisted Suicide (Brian Stoffell).

28 The Slippery Slope Argument (Govert den Hartogh).

Part VIII Resource Allocation.

29 Deciding Between Patients (John Harris).

30 Society's Allocation of Resources for Health (Daniel Wikler and Sarah Marchand).

31 Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does It Encompass? (Norman Daniels).

Part IX Organ Donations.

32 A World of Transferable Parts (Janet Radcliffe Richards).

Part X Global Health-care Issues.

33 Global Health Responsibilities (Christopher Lowry and Udo Schüklenk).

34 Developing World Challenges (Udo Schüklenk, Michael Kottow, and Peter A. Sy).

35 Global Pharmaceutical Markets (Kevin Outterson and Donald W. Light).

36 Infectious Disease (Michael J. Selgelid).

37 AIDS as a Global Health Emergency (Udo Schüklenk).

Part XI Experimentation With Humans and Animals.

38 Research Involving Human Beings (Florencia Luna and Ruth Macklin).

39 Regulating Experimentation in Research and Medical Practice (Paul Ulhas Macneill).

40 Research Using Preimplantation Human Embryos (Mary Warnock and Peter Braude).

41 The Moral Status of Animals and Their Use As Experimental Subjects (Bernard E. Rollin).

PART XII Ethical Issues in the Practice of Health Care.

42 Confidentiality (Raanan Gillon and Daniel K. Sokol).

43 Truth-telling (Roger Higgs).

44 Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy (Robert Young).

45 Patients Doubtfully Capable or Incapable of Consent (Carl Elliott).

46 Ethics in Nursing Practice (Janet L. Storch).

47 Global Trends in Nursing Ethics (Verena Tschudin).

Part XIII The Teaching and Practice of Bioethics.

48 Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants (Jonathan D. Moreno).

49 Teaching Ethics in the Health Professions (Lynn Gillam).

Index.

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"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)

"A splendid work, covering the entire field of bioethics in a very
readable way."

-Hyakudai Sakamoto, Professor of Philosophy and
Ethics, Nihon University, Tokyo and President, Asian Bioethics
Association

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Schlagworte: Bioethics & Medical Ethics • Bioethik • Bioethik, Medizinethik • Ethik • genetics, cloning, ethical theory, healthcare, medical ethics, stem cell, abortion, euthanasia • Genetik • Philosophie • Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0782-7 / 1444307827
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0782-5 / 9781444307825