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Zusatztext ...the Oxford Handbook of Bioethics is an impressive and stimulating collection of original essays on some of the deepest and most challenging ethical issues in how we maintain, restore and enhance human health. Informationen zum Autor Bonnie Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Her specialization is biomedical ethics, particularly reproduction and genetics. Klappentext Bonnie Steinbock presents the authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics, covering 30 topics in original essays by some of the world's leading figures in the field. Anyone who wants to know how the central debates in bioethics have developed in recent years, and where the debates are going, will want to consult this book. Zusammenfassung Bonnie Steinbock presents The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics - an authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics. Thirty-four contributors reflect the interdisciplinarity that is characteristic of bioethics, and its increasingly international character. Thirty topics are covered in original essays written by some of the world's leading figures in the field, as well as by some newer 'up-and-comers'. The essays address both perennial issues, such as the methodology of bioethics, autonomy, justice, death, and moral status, and newer issues, such as biobanking, stem cell research, cloning, pharmacogenomics, and bioterrorism. Other topics concern mental illness and moral agency, the rule of double effect, justice and the elderly, the definition of death, organ transplantation, feminist approaches to commodification of the body, life extension, advance directives, physician-assisted death, abortion, genetic research, population screening, enhancement, research ethics, and the implications of public and global health for bioethics. Anyone who wants to know how the central debates in bioethics have developed in recent years, and where the debates are going, will want to consult this book. It will be an invaluable resource not only for scholars and graduate students in bioethics, but also for those in philosophy, medicine, law, theology, social science, public policy, and public health who wish to keep abreast of developments in bioethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues 1: James Childress: Methods in Bioethics 2: John Arras: The Way We Reason Now: Reflective Equilibrium in Bioethics 3: Bruce Jennings: Autonomy 4: Jeanette Kennett: Mental Disorder, Moral Agency, and the Self 5: Daniel Sulmasy: 'Reinventing' the Rule of Double Effect Part 2: Justice and Policy 6: Søren Holm: Policy-Making in Pluralistic Societies 7: Benjamin J. Krohmal and Ezekiel J. Emanuel: Tiers Without Tears: The Ethics of a Two-Tiered Health Care System 8: Dennis McKerlie: Justice and the Elderly Part 3: Bodies and Bodily Parts 9: Ronald Munson: Organ Transplantation 10: John Harris and Louise Irving: Biobanking 11: Carolyn McLeod: For Dignity or Money: Feminists on the Commodification of Women's Reproductive Labour Part 4: The End of Life 12: Stuart Youngner: The Definition of Death 13: Stephen Post: The Aging Society and the Expansion of Senility: Biotechnological and Treatment Goals 14: Felicia Nimue Ackerman: Death is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents 15: John K. Davis: Precedent Autonomy, Advance Directives, and End-of-Life Care 16: Gerald Dworkin: Physician-Assisted Death: The State of the Debate Part 5: Reproduction and Cloning 17: Don Marquis: Abortion Revisited 18: Bonnie Steinbock: Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos: Implications for Stem Cell Research 19: Andrea Bonnicksen: Therapeutic Cloning: Politics and Policy Part 6: Genetics and Enhancement 20: Eric Juengst: Population Genetic Research and Screening: Conceptual and Ethical...
