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What is wrong with selecting and implanting a deaf embryo? What are 'designer babies' and why can't we choose to have them? Is there a right to know one's genetic origins? Should we allow a market in transplant organs? Are doctors justified in refusing to perform treatments on conscientious grounds? These and many other diverse questions are considered in this collection of essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics. Leading philosophers give in-depth accounts of some of the most pressing questions and challenge our most basic assumptions in this area of academic as well as public interest. Provocative and original, the contributions to this volume are bound to change the way we think about medical ethics. The volume covers essential topics that are high on the medical ethics agenda from stem cells to designer babies
List of contents
Introduction; N.Athanassoulis Belief, Disability and the Non-Identity Problem; H.Lillehammer 'Designer Babies', Instrumentalisation and the Child's Right to an Open Future; S.Wilkinson Why There is no Right to Know One's Genetic Origins; H.Draper Compromise and Moral Complicity in the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate; K.Devolder & J.Harris Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering; D.S. Oderberg Autonomy Inducements and Organ Sales; J.S.Taylor The Role of Conscience in Medical Ethics; P.Benn The Treatment that Leaves Something to Luck; N.Athanassoulis Active and Passive Euthanasia; R.Frey Index
About the author
PIERS BENN Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, Imperial College, UK
KATRIEN DEVOLDER is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and is based at the Bioethics Institute Ghent at Ghent University, Belgium
HEATHER DRAPER is Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences University of Birmingham, UK
RAY FREY Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green University, USA
JOHN HARRIS Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK
HALLVARD LILLEHAMMER Fellow of King's College, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University, UK
DAVID S. ODERBERG Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UK
JAMES STACEY TAYLOR Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey USA
STEPHEN WILKINSON Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy, Keele University, UK
Summary
This book provides a collection of original essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics research. Leading philosophers give in-depth accounts of issues as diverse as embryo pre-selection, the role of autonomy in organ transplant markets, conscientious objection in the health care professions and neonatal euthanasia.
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'...essential reading for anyone interested in the vast range of complex ethical, social and legal issues at the center of contemporary medical ethics.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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'...essential reading for anyone interested in the vast range of complex ethical, social and legal issues at the center of contemporary medical ethics.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
