The Bioethics Reader – Editors Choice

Introduction: Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer.
<p>Part I: Doing Bioethics:.</p>
<p>1. A Report from America: When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip: James Rachels.</p>
<p>2. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below: Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos.</p>
<p>3. What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations: Erica Hajmes.</p>
<p>4. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity: Nick Bostrom.</p>
<p>Part II: Healthcare Professional Patient Relationship:.</p>
<p>5. Patients Responsibilities in Medical Ethics: Heather Draper and Tom Sorell.</p>
<p>6. Clinical Ethics and Nursing: Yes to Caring, But No to a Female Ethics of Care: Helga Kuhse.</p>
<p>7. Background Briefing Psychiatric Ethics: Jennifer Radden.</p>
<p>8. Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non–Therapeutic Body Modification: Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson.</p>
<p>Part III: Just Health Care:.</p>
<p>9. Patents and Access to Drugs in Developing Countries: An Ethical Analysis: Sigrid Sterckx.</p>
<p>10. Justice and Equal Opportunities in Health Care: John Harris.</p>
<p>11. Constraints and Heroes: Carl Elliott.</p>
<p>Part IV: Public Health Ethics:.</p>
<p>12. The Genesis of Public Health Ethics: Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild.</p>
<p>13. Ethics and Infectious Disease: Michael J. Selgelid.</p>
<p>14. Vaccination and the Prevention Problem: Angus Dawson.</p>
<p>Part V: Research Ethics:.</p>
<p>15. Background Briefing: International Research Ethics: Udo Sch&uuml;klenk and Richard Ashcroft.</p>
<p>16. Equipoise and International Human–Subjects Research: Alex John London.</p>
<p>17. Symposium: Drugs for the Developing World,.</p>
<p>Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma: David B. Resnik.</p>
<p>18. Some Questions about the Moral Responsibilities of Drug Companies in Developing Countries: Dan W. Brock.</p>
<p>19. Social Responsibility and Global Pharmaceutical Companies: Norman Daniels.</p>
<p>Part VI: Genetics:.</p>
<p>20. Do Human Cells Have Rights?: Mary Warnock.</p>
<p>21. Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy: S&oslash;ren Holm.</p>
<p>22. Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome: Nicholas Agar.</p>
<p>23. The Non–Identity Problem and Genetic Harms the Case of Wrongful Handicaps: Dan W. Brock.</p>
<p>24. Coding and Consent: Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland: Vilhj&aacute;lmur &Aacute;rnason.</p>
<p>Part VII: Beginning of Life Issues:.</p>
<p>25. Is It Good to Make Happy People?: Stuart Rachels.</p>
<p>26. Genes, Embryos, and Future People: Walter Glannon.</p>
<p>27. Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children: Julian Savulescu.</p>
<p>28. The Problem of Abortion: Essentially Contested Concepts and Moral Autonomy: Susanne Gibson.</p>
<p>29. Law and Bioethics, The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood: Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens.</p>
<p>30. The Limits of Conscientious Objection to Abortion in the Developing World: Louis–Jacques van Bogaert.</p>
<p>31. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment?: Laura M. Purdy.</p>
<p>Part VIII: End of Life:.</p>
<p>32. The Metaphysics of Brain Death: Jeff McMahan.</p>
<p>33. Advance Directives, Autonomy and Unintended Death: Jim Stone.</p>
<p>34. End of Life Care in HIV–Infected Children Who Died in Hospital: Lesley D. Henley.</p>
<p>Index</p>