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A wide-ranging, comprehensive overview of pressing issues in bioethics today, this handbook takes into account current affairs and historical precedents. Interdisciplinary authorship and global examples make the handbook applicable to a variety of scholar, student, and practitioner types.
List of contents
Introduction: Bioethics for the 22nd Century - Isaac A Wagner, Ji-Young Lee & Ezio Di Nucci
Part 1 - Concepts and Principles
Section I: Foundations & Methods in Bioethics
1. Moral Status - Ezio Di Nucci
2. Health, Disease and Wellbeing - S Engelsen, S Harnow Klausen & R Christiansen
3. Bioethical Principles - Nana Cecilie Halmsted Kongsholm
4. Neurodiversity - Kenneth Shields
Section II: Decision-making in Healthcare
5. Substituted Decision-making - Anna-Karin Margareta Andersson
6. Autonomy and Responsibility - Lisa Dive
7. Paternalism - Jason Hanna
8. Conscientious Objection in Health Care - Udo Schuklenk
Section III: Discrimination in Bioethics
9. Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare - Ji-Young Lee
10. Bias in Medicine - Mayli Mertens
11. Race and Gender in Research - Christopher ChoGlueck & Elisabeth A Lloyd
Section IV: The Politics of Healthcare
12. Priority Setting in Health Care - Eric Roark
13. Health Care Rights - Richard Lauer
14. Vulnerability - Costanza Porro
15. Nudging in Public Health - Paul Hamilton
Part 2 - Applications and Trends
Section V: Medical Case Studies
16. Organ Markets - Andreas Albertsen
17. Physician-Assisted Death - Iain Brassington
18. Interpretation and Medical Technologies - Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis
19. Disability - Melinda C Hall
Section VI: Epidemics and Pandemics
20. Responsible Pain Medicine - TN Rieder, D Manoharan & VV Altiery De Jesus
21. Pandemic Ethics - Anne Lykkeskov
22. Vaccination Ethics - Stephen John
Section VII: Reproduction
23. The Ethics of Parenthood - Teresa Baron
24. Reproductive Technologies for Queer and Trans People - Doris Leibetseder
25. Population Governance - Karin Kuhlemann
26. The Ethics of Circumcision - Brian Earp
Section VIII: Biotechnology and Society
27. Data Ethics - Aaro Tupasela
28. AI in Medical Practice - Karin Jongsma & Martin Sand
29. Performance Enhancing Drugs - Thomas Søbirk Petersen
30. Medical Instagram in Russia - Yulia Karpova & Pavel Vasilyev
Section IX: Beyond Bioethics?
31. Neuroethics - Mary Jean Walker
32. Nursing Ethics - Ann Gallagher
33. Climate Change - Trevor Hedberg
34. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation - Adam Shriver
About the author
Ezio Di Nucci is professor of bioethics and director of the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen.Ji-Young Lee is postdoctoral researcher in bioethics in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. She works on the Velux-funded Future of Family Relationships project, which explores the future of family structures and ties in light of advances in reproductive technologies.Isaac A. Wagner is teaching associate professor of bioethics in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen.
Summary
This bioethics handbook presents a range of bioethical topics in the following categories: foundational concepts, theory and method, healthcare ethics, research ethics, public health, technology, and the environment.
