Bioethics: An Anthology

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Helga Kuhse, Udo Sch¿klenk, Peter Singer
John Wiley & Sons, 21 dic 2015 - 800 páginas

Now fully revised and updated, Bioethics: An Anthology, 3rd edition, contains a wealth of new material reflecting the latest developments. This definitive text brings together writings on an unparalleled range of key ethical issues, compellingly presented by internationally renowned scholars.

  • The latest edition of this definitive one-volume collection, now updated to reflect the latest developments in the field
  • Includes several new additions, including important historical readings and new contemporary material published since the release of the last edition in 2006
  • Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, neuroethics, life and death, resource allocation, organ donations, public health, AIDS, human and animal experimentation, genetic screening, and issues facing nurses
  • Subjects are clearly and captivatingly discussed by globally distinguished bioethicists
  • A detailed index allows the reader to find terms and topics not listed in the titles of the essays themselves
 

Índice

Abortion and Health Care Ethics
15
A Defense of Abortion
38
Introduction
63
Rights Interests and Possible People
86
Can Having Children Be Immoral?
105
A Challenge to Practice and Policy
112
A Threat to Deafness
127
A Response to the Ethics Committee
141
Introduction
383
The Value of Life
397
Obtaining Organs
413
The Survival Lottery
437
Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research
459
A Response to John Harris
483
Were Trying to Help Our Sickest People Not Exploit Them
495
Killing Embryos for Stem Cell Research
508

The Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans
156
Introduction
175
The Moral Significance of the TherapyEnhancement Distinction in Human Genetics
189
In Defense of Posthuman Dignity
208
Declaration on Euthanasia
235
Active and Passive Euthanasia
248
Why Killing is Not Always Worse and Sometimes Better Than Letting Die
257
Medical Problems in Seriously Ill Babies
273
Moral Dilemmas of Doctors and Parents
285
Conjoined Twins Embodied Personhood and Surgical Separation
292
A Definition of Irreversible Coma
307
Is the Sanctity of Life Ethic Terminally Ill?
321
Life Past Reason
333
Elegant Theory Questionable Policy
341
The Note
353
When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok
362
What Lessons for Elsewhere?
377
Experimentation with Animals
523
An Exchange
540
Introduction
553
Rethinking Mandatory HIV Testing during Pregnancy in Areas with High
565
No Time for Denial or Complacency
582
Introduction
593
On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives
613
On Liberty
631
Amputees by Choice
654
The Nocebo Effect of Informed Consent
683
The Relation of the Nurse to the Doctor and the Doctor to the Nurse
699
Can Nurses Help Doctors to Listen to Patients?
708
Introduction
731
Ethics and the Sciences of the Mind
744
Engineering Love
760
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Sobre el autor (2015)

Helga Kuhse is Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University. She is the author, co-author or editor of more than 150 professional articles and some 15 books, including The Sanctity-of-Life-Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique  (1987), Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics (1997), Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics (2006), and A Companion to Bioethics, 2nd Edition, (2012).

Udo Schüklenkholds the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy at Queen's University at Kingston in Canada. He is a Joint Editor-in-Chief of Bioethics, the journal of the International Association of Bioethics. He is the author, co-author or editor of 160 contributions in journals and anthologies and 7 books including 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists 2009), The Bioethics Reader (2007) and 50 Great Myths About Atheism (2013).

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 40 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 (2005), and The Life You Can Save (2009). In 2005, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country’s highest civilian honour.

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