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The expanded and revised edition of Bioethics: An Anthology is a definitive one-volume collection of key primary texts for the study of bioethics. * Brings together writings on a broad range of ethical issues relating such matters as reproduction, genetics, life and death, and animal experimentation.
List of contents
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I Before Birth.
Introduction.
Abortion.
1 Abortion and Health Care Ethics.
John Finnis.
2 Abortion and Infanticide.
Michael Tooley.
3 A Defense of Abortion.
Judith Jarvis Thomson .
4 Why Abortion is Immoral.
Don Marquis .
Mother-Fetus Conflict .
5 Are Pregnant Women Fetal Containers?.
Laura M. Purdy.
Part II Issues in Reproduction.
Introduction.
Assisted Reproduction .
6 The McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice?.
Gregory E. Pence .
7 Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment?.
Laura M. Purdy.
8 A Response to Purdy.
Susan Dodds and Karen Jones .
9 The Right to Lesbian Parenthood.
Gillian Hanscombe .
10 Rights, Interests and Possible People.
Derek Parfit.
Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection and Cloning.
11 Can Having Children be Immoral?.
Laura Purdy .
12 Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy.
Adrienne Asch.
13 Genetic Technology: A Threat to Deafness.
Ruth Chadwick and Mairi Levitt.
14 Sex Selection: The Case For.
Julian Savulescu .
15 Conception to Obtain Hematopoietic Cells.
John A. Robertson, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and John E. Wagner.
16 Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors.
David King .
17 The Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans.
Michael Tooley.
Part III The New Genetics Introduction .
Gene Therapy and Eugenics.
18 Questions About Some Uses of Genetic Engineering.
Jonathan Glover .
19 Ethical Issues in Manipulating the Human Germ Line.
Mark Lappe .
20 The Moral Significance of the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction in Human Genetics.
David B. Resnik .
21 Should we Undertake Genetic Research on Intelligence?.
Ainsley Newson & Robert Williamson.
Genetic Screening and Counselling.
22 Lessons from a Dark and Distant Past.
Benno Mueller-Hill .
23 Patient Autonomy & Value Neutrality in Nondirective Counseling.
Robert Wachbroit & David Wasserman.
24 Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future.
D ena S. Davis .
Part IV Life and Death Issues Introduction .
25 The Sanctity of Life.
Jonathan Glover.
26 Declaration on Euthanasia.
Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Killing and Letting Die .
27 The Morality of Killing: A Traditional View.
Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr.
28 Active and Passive Euthanasia.
James Rachels .
29 Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die?.
Winston Nesbitt .
30 Why Killing is Not Always Worse - And Sometimes Better - than Letting Die.
Helga Kuhse .
Severely Disabled Newborns .
31 When Care Cannot Cure: Medical Problems in Seriously Ill Babies.
Neil Campbell .
32 A Modern Myth: That Letting Die is Not the Intentional Causation of Death.
Helga Kuhse .
33 The Abnormal Child: Modern Dilemmas of Doctors and Parents.
R. M. Hare.
34 Right to Life of Handicapped.
Alison Davis.
Brain Death .
35 "A Definition of Irreversible Coma." Report to Examine the Definition ofBrain Death.
Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School .
36 Is the Sanctity of Life Ethic Terminally Ill?.
Peter Singer .
Advance Directives .
37 Life Past Reason.
Ronald Dworkin.
38 Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy.
Rebecca Dresser .
Voluntary Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide.
39 The Note.
Chris Hill.
40 When Self-Determination Runs Amok.
Daniel Callahan.
41 When Abstract Morality Runs Amok.
John Lachs .
42 Listening and Helping to Die: The Dutch Way.
Pieter Admiraal.
Part V Resource Allocation.
Introduction.
Micro-Allocation: Deciding Between Patients.
43 Rescuing Lives: Can't We Count?.
Paul T. Menzel.
44 The Allocation of Exotic Medical Lifesaving Therapy.
Nicholas Rescher .
45 Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation?.
Alvin H. Moss & M
Report
"The field of bioethics continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. One could hardly ask for a more thorough guide to where it has been, and what values and principles might steer where it is going, than this comprehensive and balanced volume." Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania
"This is an outstanding, up-to-date collection which covers all the main issues in bioethics and brings together much of the best philosophical work on them." Dan W. Brock, Harvard Medical School
"A useful tool to gain an overview of important an influential texts and thinking of leading authors and commentators in bioethics." Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics
