The Oxford handbook of bioethics

The Oxford handbook of bioethics / edited by Bonnie Steinbock.

Bonnie Steinbock presents the authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics, covering 30 topics in original essays by some of the world's leading figures in the field, as well as by some newer 'up-and-comers'.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Steinbock, Bonnie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Bioethics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Bioéthique.
Recherche scientifique.
Recherche médicale.
Santé publique.
Génétique.
Manuels.
Bioethics
Bioethik
Bio-ethiek.
Medische ethiek.
Handboeken (vorm)
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Theoretical and methodological issues
  • Methods in bioethics / James Childress
  • The way we reason now : reflective equilibrium in bioethics / John Arras
  • Autonomy / Bruce Jennings
  • Mental disorder, moral agency, and the self / Jeanette Kennett
  • 'Reinventing' the rule of double effect / Daniel Sulmasy
  • Part II. Justice and policy
  • Policy-making in pluralistic societies / Soren Holm
  • Tiers without tears : the ethics of a two-tiered health care system / Benjamin J. Krohmal and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  • Justice and the elderly / Dennis McKerlie
  • Part III. Bodies and bodily parts
  • Organ transplantation / Ronald Munson
  • Biobanking / John Harris and Louise Irving
  • For dignity or money : feminists on the commodification of women's reproductive labour / Carolyn McLeod
  • Part IV. The end of life
  • The definition of death / Stuart Youngner
  • The aging society and the expansion of senility : biotechnological and treatment goals / Stephen Post
  • Death is a punch in the jaw : life-extension and its discontents / Felicia Nimue Ackerman
  • Precedent autonomy, advance directives, and end-of-life care / John K. Davis
  • Physician-assisted death : the state of the debate / Gerald Dworkin
  • Part V. Reproduction and cloning
  • Abortion revisited / Don Marquis
  • Moral status, moral value, and human embryos : implications for stem cell research / Bonnie Steinbock
  • Therapeutic cloning : politics and policy / Andrea Bonnicksen
  • Part VI. Genetics and enhancement
  • Population genetic research and screening : conceptual and ethical issues / Eric Juengst
  • Enhancement / Thomas Murray
  • Genetic interventions and the ethics of enhancement of human beings / Julian Savulescu
  • Pharmacogenomics : ethical and regulatory issues / Matthew DeCamp and Allen Buchanan
  • Part VII. Research ethics
  • Clinical equipoise : foundational requirement or fundamental error / Alex John London
  • Research on cognitively impaired adults / Jason Karlawish
  • Research in developing countries / Florencia Luna
  • Animal experimentation / Alastair Norcross
  • Part VIII. Public and global health
  • The implications of public health for bioethics / Jeffrey Kahn and Anna Mastroianni
  • Global health / Ruth Macklin
  • Bioethics and bioterrorism / Jonathan Moreno.

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