Bioethics - An Anthology

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.

List of 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 Schüklenk
 

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

About the author

UDO SCHÜKLENK is Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He has held academic appointments in Australia, the UK, and South Africa, and is a long-serving Joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bioethics, the official publication of the International Association of Bioethics.
PETER SINGER is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University, USA. He is best known as the author of Animal Liberation, widely considered to be the founding statement of the animal rights movement, and for his role in inspiring the growth of effective altruism.

Product details

• Authors: Udo Singer Schuklenk, Udo Schüklenk, Peter Singer
• Assisted by: Udo Schüklenk (Editor), Singer (Editor), Peter Singer (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2021
• EAN: 9781119635116
• ISBN: 978-1-119-63511-6
• No. of pages: 944
• Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophie, Bioethik, Medizin, Philosophy, Medical Science, Allgemeine u. Innere Medizin, General & Internal Medicine, Bioethik, Medizinethik, Bioethics & Medical Ethics