The Bioethics Reader: Editors' Choice

Part I: Doing Bioethics:.

1. A Report from America: When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip: James Rachels.

2. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below: Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos.

3. What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations: Erica Hajmes.

4. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity: Nick Bostrom.

Part II: Healthcare Professional–Patient Relationship:.

5. Patients’ Responsibilities in Medical Ethics: Heather Draper and Tom Sorell.

6. Clinical Ethics and Nursing: ‘Yes’ to Caring, But ‘No’ to a Female Ethics of Care: Helga Kuhse.

7. Background Briefing Psychiatric Ethics: Jennifer Radden.

8. Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification: Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson.

Part III: Just Health Care:.

9. Patents and Access to Drugs in Developing Countries: An Ethical Analysis: Sigrid Sterckx.

10. Justice and Equal Opportunities in Health Care: John Harris.

11. Constraints and Heroes: Carl Elliott.

Part IV: Public Health Ethics:.

12. The Genesis of Public Health Ethics: Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild.

13. Ethics and Infectious Disease: Michael J. Selgelid.

14. Vaccination and the Prevention Problem: Angus Dawson.

Part V: Research Ethics:.

15. Background Briefing: International Research Ethics: Udo Schüklenk and Richard Ashcroft.

16. Equipoise and International Human-Subjects Research: Alex John London.

17. Symposium: Drugs for the Developing World,.

Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma: David B. Resnik.

18. Some Questions about the Moral Responsibilities of Drug Companies in Developing Countries: Dan W. Brock.

19. Social Responsibility and Global Pharmaceutical Companies: Norman Daniels.

Part VI: Genetics:.

20. Do Human Cells Have Rights?: Mary Warnock.

21. Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy: Søren Holm.

22. Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome: Nicholas Agar.

23. The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms – the Case of Wrongful Handicaps: Dan W. Brock.

24. Coding and Consent: Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland: Vilhjálmur Árnason.

Part VII: Beginning of Life Issues:.

25. Is It Good to Make Happy People?: Stuart Rachels.

26. Genes, Embryos, and Future People: Walter Glannon.

27. Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children: Julian Savulescu.

28. The Problem of Abortion: Essentially Contested Concepts and Moral Autonomy: Susanne Gibson.

29. Law and Bioethics, The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood: Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens.

30. The Limits of Conscientious Objection to Abortion in the Developing World: Louis-Jacques van Bogaert.

31. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment?: Laura M. Purdy.

Part VIII: End of Life:.

32. The Metaphysics of Brain Death: Jeff McMahan.

33. Advance Directives, Autonomy and Unintended Death: Jim Stone.

34. End of Life Care in HIV-Infected Children Who Died in Hospital: Lesley D. Henley.

Index