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The new edition of the classic collection of key readings in bioethics, fully updated to reflect the latest developments and main issues in the field

For more than two decades, Bioethics: An Anthology has been widely regarded as the definitive single-volume compendium of seminal readings on both traditional and cutting-edge ethical issues in biology and medicine. Acclaimed for its scope and depth of coverage, this landmark work brings together compelling writings by internationally-renowned bioethicist to help readers develop a thorough understanding of the central ideas, critical issues, and current debate in the field.

Now fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains a wealth of new content on ethical questions and controversies related to the COVID-19 pandemic, advances in CRISPR gene editing technology, physician-assisted death, public health and vaccinations, transgender children, medical aid in dying, the morality of ending the lives of newborns, and much more. Throughout the new edition, carefully selected essays explore a wide range of topics and offer diverse perspectives that underscore the interdisciplinary nature of bioethical study. Edited by two of the field's most respected scholars, Bioethics: An Anthology:

Covers an unparalleled range of thematically-organized topics in a single volume
Discusses recent high-profile cases, debates, and ethical issues
Features three brand-new sections: Conscientious Objection, Academic Freedom and Research, and Disability
Contains new essays on topics such as brain death, life and death decisions for the critically ill, experiments on humans and animals, neuroethics, and the use of drugs to ease the pain of unrequited love
Includes a detailed index that allows the reader to easily find terms and topics of interest

Bioethics: An Anthology, Fourth Edition remains a must-have resource for all students, lecturers, and researchers studying the ethical implications of the health-related life sciences, and an invaluable reference for doctors, nurses, and other professionals working in health care and the biomedical sciences.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Abortion

Introduction

1. Abortion and Infanticide - Michael Tooley

2. A Defense of Abortion - Judith Jarvis Thomson

3. The Wrong of Abortion - Patrick Lee and Robert George

4. Why Abortion is Immoral - Don Marquis

Part II Issues in Reproduction

Introduction

Assisted Reproduction

5. Multiple Gestation and Damaged Babies: God's Will or Human Choice? - Greg Pence

6. The Meaning of Synthetic Gametes for Gay and Lesbian People and Bioethics too - Timothy Murphy

7. Rights, Interests and Possible People - Derek Parfit

Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection and Cloning

8. Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral? - Laura M. Purdy

9 Sex Selection and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis - The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine

10. Sex Selection and Preimplantation Diagnosis: A Response to the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine - Julian Savulescu and Edgar Dahl

11. Why We Should Not Permit Embryos to be Selected as Tissue Donors - David King

12. The Moral Status of Human Cloning: Neo-Lockean Persons versus Human Embryos - Michael Tooley

Part III Genetic Manipulation

Introduction

13. Questions About Some Uses of Genetic Engineering - Jonathan Glover

14. The Moral Significance of the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction in Human Genetics - David B. Resnik

15. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity - Nick Bostrom

16. Statement on NIH funding of research using gene-editing technologies in human embryos - Francis Collins

17. Genome editing and assisted reproduction: curing embryos, society or prospective parents - Giulia Cavaliere

18. Who's afraid of the big bad (germline editing) wolf? - R. Alta Charo

19. An ethical pathway for gene editing - Julian Savulescu & Peter Singer

Part IV Life and Death Issues

Introduction

20. The Sanctity of Life - Jonathan Glover

21. Declaration on Euthanasia - Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Killing and Letting Die

22. Active and Passive Euthanasia - James Rachels

23. The Morality of Killing: A Traditional View - Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr.

24. Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die? - Winston Nesbitt

25. Why Killing Is Not Always Worse Than Letting Die - Helga Kuhse

26. Moral Fiction and Medical Ethics - Franklin Miller, Robert Truog, and Dan Brock

Newborns

27. Can a Physician Ever Justifiably Euthanize a Severely Disabled Newborn? - Robert M. Sade

28. No to infant euthanasia - Gilbert Meilaender

29. Physicians can justifiably euthanize certain severely impaired neonates - Udo Schuklenk

30. You Should not have let your baby die - Gary Comstock

31. After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live? - Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva

32. Does a human being gain the right to live after he or she is born? - Christopher Kaczor

33. Hard Lessons: Learning from the Charlie Gard Case - Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu

Brain Death

34. A Definition of Irreversible Coma - Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death

35. The Challenge of Brain Death for the Sanctity of Life Ethic - Peter Singer

36. The Philosophical Debate - The President's Council on Bioethics

37. An Alternative to Brain Death - Jeff McMahan

Advance Directives

38. Life Past Reason - Ronald Dworkin

39. Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy - Rebecca Dresser

Voluntary Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide

40. The Note - Chris Hill

41. When Self-Determination Runs Amok - Daniel Callahan

42. When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok - John Lachs

43. Physician-assisted death and severe, treatment-resistant depression - Bonnie Steinbock

44. Are Concerns about Irremediableness, Vulnerability, or Competence Sufficient to Justify Excluding All Psychiatric Patients from Medical Aid in Dying? - William Rooney, Udo Schuklenk, and Suzanne van de Vathorst

Part V: Resource Allocation

Introduction

45. In a Pandemic, Should We Save Younger Lives? - Peter Singer, Lucy Winkett

46. The Value of Life - John Harris

47. Bubbles under the Wallpaper: Healthcare Rationing and Discrimination - Nick Beckstead and Toby Ord

48. Rescuing Lives: Can't We Count? - Paul T. Menzel

49. Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation? - Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler

Part VI: Obtaining Organs

Introduction

50. Organ Donation and Retrieval: Whose Body is it Anyway? - Eike-Henner Kluge

51. The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales - Janet Radcliffe-Richards, A. S. Daar, R. D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, I. Kennedy, M. Lock, R. A. Sells and N. Tilney and for the International Forum Transplant Ethics

52. Ethical Issues in the Supply And Demand of Kidneys - Debra Satz

53. The Survival Lottery - John Harris

Part VII: Ethical Issues in Research

Introduction

Experimentation with Humans

54. Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research - National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research

55. Scientific Research is a Moral Duty - John Harris

56. Participation in Biomedical Research is an Imperfect Moral Duty: A Response to John Harris - Sandra Shapshay and Kenneth D. Pimple

57. Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries - Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe

58. We're Trying to Help Our Sickest People, Not Exploit Them - Danstan Bagenda and Philippa Musoke-Mudido

59. Pandemic Ethics: The Case for Risky Research - Peter Singer and Richard Yetter Chappell

Experimentation with Animals

60. Duties Towards Animals - Immanuel Kant

61. A Utilitarian View - Jeremy Bentham

62. Harmful, Nontherapeutic Use of Animals in Research is Morally Wrong - Nathan Nobis

63. Use of Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Research - Dario L. Ringach

64. Ethical Issues when Modelling Brain Disorders in Non-Human Primates - Carolyn P. Neuhaus

Academic Freedom and Research

65. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill

66. Should Some Knowledge Be Forbidden?: The Case of Cognitive Differences Research - Janet A. Kourany

67. Academic Freedom and Race: You Ought Not to Believe What You Think May Be True - James R. Flynn

Part VIII: Public Health Issues

Introduction

68. Ethics and Infectious Diseases - Michael J. Selgelid

69. XDR-TB in South Africa: No Time for Denial or Complacency - Jerome Amir Singh, Ross Upshur, Nesri Padayatchi

70. Clinical Ethics during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Missing the Trees for the Forest - Vijayaprasad Gopichandran

71. The Moral Obligation to be Vaccinated: Utilitarianism, Contractualism and Collective Easy Rescue - Alberto Giubilini, Thomas Douglas, and Julian Savulescu

72. Taking Responsibility for Responsibility - Neil Levy

Part IX: Ethical Issues in the Practice of Healthcare

Introduction

When do doctors have a duty to treat?

73. What Healthcare Professionals Owe Us: Why Their Duty to Treat During a Pandemic is Contingent on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - Udo Schuklenk

74. Conscientious Objection in Health Care - Mark R. Wicclair

75. Conscientious Objection in Medicine: Accommodation versus Professionalism and the Public Good - Udo Schuklenk

Confidentiality

76. Confidentiality in Medicine: A Decrepit Concept - Mark Siegler

77. A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality - Kenneth Kipnis

Truth-Telling

78. On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives - Immanuel Kant

79. Should Doctors Tell the Truth? - Joseph Collins

80. On Telling Patients the Truth - Roger Higgs

Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy

81. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill

82. From 'Schloendorff v. New York Hospital' - Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo

83. Informed Consent: Its History, Meaning, and Present Challenges - Tom L.Beauchamp

84. The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Different Cultures - Ruth Macklin

85. Transgender Children and the Right to Transition: Medical Ethics when Parents Mean Well but Cause Harm - Maria Priest

86. Amputees by Choice - Carl Elliott

87. Rational Desires and the Limitations of Life-Sustaining Treatment - Julian Savulescu

Part X Disability

88. Valuing Disability, Causing Disability - Elizabeth Barnes

89. Is Disability Mere Difference? - Greg Bognar

90. Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy - Adrienne Asch

91. Down Syndrome Screening Isn't about Public Health: It's about Eliminating a Group of People - Renate Lindeman

92. I Would've Aborted a Fetus with Down Syndrome: Women Need that Right - Ruth Marcus

Part XI: Neuroethics

Introduction

93. Neuroethics: Ethics and the Sciences of the Mind - Neil Levy

94. Engineering Love - Julian Savulescu and Anders Sandberg

95. Unrequited Love Hurts: Should Doctors Treat Broken Hearts? - Francesca Minerva

96. Stimulating Brains, Altering Minds - Walter Glannon

97. Authenticity or Autonomy? When Deep Brain Stimulation Causes a Dilemma - Felicitas Kraemer

98 . On the Necessity of Ethical Guidelines for Novel Neurotechnologies - Sara Goering and Rafael Yuste

Index