Arguing about bioethics / edited by Stephen Holland.

Contributor(s):

Holland, Stephen (Stephen Michael), 1963-

Series: Arguing about philosophyPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: xvi, 602 p. ; ill. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780415476324 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415476331 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

174.2 HOL 23

LOC classification:

QH332 .A74 2011

Contents:

Contents Introduction Part 1: Is it Wrong to do Research on Human Embryos? The Metaphysical Status of the Embryo: Some Arguments Revisited D. Oderberg 2. Potentiality and Human Embryos J. Lizza 3. The Argument From Potential: A Reappraisal M. Reichlin 4. Stem Cells, Sex, and Procreation J. Harris Part 2: On What Grounds Should we Select and Enhance our Offspring? 5. The Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Testing: Reflections and Recommendations E. Parens & A. Asch 6. Procreative Beneficence: Why we Should Select the Best Children J. Savulescu 7. Preconception Gender Selection J. A. Robertson 8. The Case Against Perfection M. J. Sandel 9. Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective N. Bostrom Part 3: Is it Wrong to Clone Human Beings? 10. Cloning R. Chadwick 11. The Wisdom of Repugnance L.R. Kass 12. Uniqueness, Individuality, and Human Cloning D. Elliott 13. Cloning, Parenthood, and Genetic Relatedness R. Sparrow 14. Slippery Slopes to Slippery Slopes: Therapeutic Cloning and the Criminal Law R. Blackford Part 4: What Uses of Animals for Biomedical Purposes are Permissible? 15. Animal Liberation at 30 P. Singer 16. Do Animals Feel Pain? P. Harrison 17. The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research C. Cohen 18. Is Xenografting Morally Wrong? A. Caplan 19. Moral Sensibilities and Moral Standing: Caplan on Xenograft ‘Donors’ J. Nelson Part 5: How Should More Human Transplant Organs be Acquired? 20. Organs for Sale? Propriety, Property, and the Price of Progress L.R. Kass 21. The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales J. Radcliffe-Richards, A. S. Daar, R. D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, I. Kennedy, M. Lock, R. A. Sells, & N. Tilney 22. The Case for Presumed Consent to Transplant Human Organs After Death C. Cohen 23. The Myth of Presumed Consent: Ethical Problems in New Organ Procurement Strategies R. M. Veatch & J. B. Pitt 24. Mandated Choice for Organ Donation: Time to Give it a Try A. Spital 25. Donors and Relatives Must Place no Conditions on Organ Use L. Beecham 26. What’s Not Wrong With Conditional Organ Donation? T. M. Wilkinson 27. Point: Are Donors After Circulatory Death Really Dead, and Does it Matter? Yes and Yes J. L. Bernat 28. Counterpoint: Are Donors After Circulatory Death Really Dead, and Does it Matter? No and Not Really R. D. Truog & F. G. Miller 29. Rebuttal J.L. Bernat Part 6: What Sort of Consent Does Respect for Autonomy Imply? 30. Barriers to Informed Consent C. W. Lidz, A. Meise, M. Osterweis, J. L. Holden, J. H. Marx, & M. R. Munetz 31. The Place of Autonomy in Bioethics J.F. Childress 32. Abandoning Informed Consent R. M. Veatch 33. Should Informed Consent be Based on Rational Beliefs? J. Savulescu & R. W. Momeyer 34. Some Limits of Informed Consent O. O’Neill 35. A New Model of Medical Decisions: Exploring the Limits of Shared Decision Making S. N. Whitney Part 7: Is it Permissible to Impose on Individuals for the Sake of the Public’s Health? 36. Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain J.F. Childress, R. R. Faden, R. D. Gaare, L. O. Gostin, J. Kahn, R. J. Bonnie, N. E. Kass, A. C. Mastroianni, J.D. Moreno, & P. Nieburg 37. Public Health Law in an Age of Terrorism: Rethinking Individual Rights and Common Goods L. O. Gostin 38. Libertarian Paternalism R. H. Thaler, C. R. Sunstein 39. Obesity Interventions and Ethics S. Holm 40. Should Routine Childhood Immunizations be Compulsory? D. Isaacs, H. A. Kilham, & H. Marshall 41. Banning Smoking Outdoors is Seldom Ethically Justifiable S. Chapman 42. Ethics and the Conduct of Public Health Surveillance A. L. Fairchild, & R. Bayer Part 8: How are Scarce Medical Resources to be Justly Allocated? 43. The Value of QALYs, A. Williams 44. QALYfying the Value of Life J. Harris 45. The Rationing Debate. Rationing Health Care by Age: The Case For, and the Case Against A. Williams & J. Grimley-Evans 46. Rationing and Life-Saving Treatments: Should Identifiable Patients Have Higher Priority? T. Hope 47. Health-Care Needs and Distributive Justice N. Daniels Part 9: Do Western Principles of Research Ethics Apply in the Developing World? 48. Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries P. Lurie & S. M. Wolfe 49. The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World M. Angell 50. Ethical Complexities of Conducting Research in Developing Countries H. Varmus & D. Satcher 51. The "Best Proven Therapeutic Method" Standard in Clinical Trials in Technologically Developing Countries R. J. Levine 52. Universality and its Limits: When Research Ethics Can Reflect Local Circumstances D. Orentlicher 53. Participants in the 2001 Conference on Ethical Aspects of Research in Developing Countries 2004: Moral Standards for Research in Developing Countries: From ‘Reasonable Availability’ to ‘Fair Benefits’ 54. Another Voice: Fair Benefits in International Medical Research J. D. Arras 55. The Declaration of Helsinki: Another Revision R. Macklin Part 10: Should Doctors be Allowed to Help Patients to Kill Themselves? 56. An Open Letter to All Members of Parliament and of the House of Lords, From Leaders of British Faith Communities of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Sikhs, Expressing Grave Concerns at Continuing and Renewed Efforts to Legalise Euthanasia 57. Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers’ Brief R. Dworkin, T. Nagel, R. Nozick, J. Rawls, T. Scanlon, & J. J. Thomson 58. Autonomy and Assisted Suicide: The Execution of Freedom J. P. Safranek 59. Physician-Assisted Suicide: a New Look at the Arguments J.M. Dieterle 60. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments J. J. Thomson. Index

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Introduction
Part 1:
Is it Wrong to do Research on Human Embryos?
The Metaphysical Status of the Embryo: Some Arguments Revisited D. Oderberg
2. Potentiality and Human Embryos J. Lizza
3. The Argument From Potential: A Reappraisal M. Reichlin
4. Stem Cells, Sex, and Procreation J. Harris
Part 2: On What Grounds Should we Select and Enhance our Offspring?
5. The Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Testing: Reflections and Recommendations E. Parens & A. Asch
6. Procreative Beneficence: Why we Should Select the Best Children J. Savulescu
7. Preconception Gender Selection J. A. Robertson
8. The Case Against Perfection M. J. Sandel
9. Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective N. Bostrom
Part 3: Is it Wrong to Clone Human Beings?
10. Cloning R. Chadwick
11. The Wisdom of Repugnance L.R. Kass
12. Uniqueness, Individuality, and Human Cloning D. Elliott
13. Cloning, Parenthood, and Genetic Relatedness R. Sparrow
14. Slippery Slopes to Slippery Slopes: Therapeutic Cloning and the Criminal Law R. Blackford
Part 4: What Uses of Animals for Biomedical Purposes are Permissible?
15. Animal Liberation at 30 P. Singer
16. Do Animals Feel Pain? P. Harrison
17. The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research C. Cohen
18. Is Xenografting Morally Wrong? A. Caplan
19. Moral Sensibilities and Moral Standing: Caplan on Xenograft ‘Donors’ J. Nelson
Part 5: How Should More Human Transplant Organs be Acquired?
20. Organs for Sale? Propriety, Property, and the Price of Progress L.R. Kass
21. The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales J. Radcliffe-Richards, A. S. Daar, R. D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, I. Kennedy, M. Lock, R. A. Sells, & N. Tilney
22. The Case for Presumed Consent to Transplant Human Organs After Death C. Cohen
23. The Myth of Presumed Consent: Ethical Problems in New Organ Procurement Strategies R. M. Veatch & J. B. Pitt
24. Mandated Choice for Organ Donation: Time to Give it a Try A. Spital
25. Donors and Relatives Must Place no Conditions on Organ Use L. Beecham
26. What’s Not Wrong With Conditional Organ Donation? T. M. Wilkinson
27. Point: Are Donors After Circulatory Death Really Dead, and Does it Matter? Yes and Yes J. L. Bernat
28. Counterpoint: Are Donors After Circulatory Death Really Dead, and Does it Matter? No and Not Really R. D. Truog & F. G. Miller
29. Rebuttal J.L. Bernat
Part 6: What Sort of Consent Does Respect for Autonomy Imply?
30. Barriers to Informed Consent C. W. Lidz, A. Meise, M. Osterweis, J. L. Holden, J. H. Marx, & M. R. Munetz
31. The Place of Autonomy in Bioethics J.F. Childress
32. Abandoning Informed Consent R. M. Veatch
33. Should Informed Consent be Based on Rational Beliefs? J. Savulescu & R. W. Momeyer
34. Some Limits of Informed Consent O. O’Neill
35. A New Model of Medical Decisions: Exploring the Limits of Shared Decision Making S. N. Whitney
Part 7: Is it Permissible to Impose on Individuals for the Sake of the Public’s Health?
36. Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain J.F. Childress, R. R. Faden, R. D. Gaare, L. O. Gostin, J. Kahn, R. J. Bonnie, N. E. Kass, A. C. Mastroianni, J.D. Moreno, & P. Nieburg
37. Public Health Law in an Age of Terrorism: Rethinking Individual Rights and Common Goods L. O. Gostin
38. Libertarian Paternalism R. H. Thaler, C. R. Sunstein
39. Obesity Interventions and Ethics S. Holm
40. Should Routine Childhood Immunizations be Compulsory? D. Isaacs, H. A. Kilham, & H. Marshall
41. Banning Smoking Outdoors is Seldom Ethically Justifiable S. Chapman
42. Ethics and the Conduct of Public Health Surveillance A. L. Fairchild, & R. Bayer
Part 8: How are Scarce Medical Resources to be Justly Allocated?
43. The Value of QALYs, A. Williams
44. QALYfying the Value of Life J. Harris
45. The Rationing Debate. Rationing Health Care by Age: The Case For, and the Case Against A. Williams & J. Grimley-Evans
46. Rationing and Life-Saving Treatments: Should Identifiable Patients Have Higher Priority? T. Hope
47. Health-Care Needs and Distributive Justice N. Daniels
Part 9: Do Western Principles of Research Ethics Apply in the Developing World?
48. Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries P. Lurie & S. M. Wolfe
49. The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World M. Angell
50. Ethical Complexities of Conducting Research in Developing Countries H. Varmus & D. Satcher
51. The "Best Proven Therapeutic Method" Standard in Clinical Trials in Technologically Developing Countries R. J. Levine
52. Universality and its Limits: When Research Ethics Can Reflect Local Circumstances D. Orentlicher
53. Participants in the 2001 Conference on Ethical Aspects of Research in Developing Countries 2004: Moral Standards for Research in Developing Countries: From ‘Reasonable Availability’ to ‘Fair Benefits’
54. Another Voice: Fair Benefits in International Medical Research J. D. Arras
55. The Declaration of Helsinki: Another Revision R. Macklin
Part 10: Should Doctors be Allowed to Help Patients to Kill Themselves?
56. An Open Letter to All Members of Parliament and of the House of Lords, From Leaders of British Faith Communities of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Sikhs, Expressing Grave Concerns at Continuing and Renewed Efforts to Legalise Euthanasia
57. Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers’ Brief R. Dworkin, T. Nagel, R. Nozick, J. Rawls, T. Scanlon, & J. J. Thomson
58. Autonomy and Assisted Suicide: The Execution of Freedom J. P. Safranek
59. Physician-Assisted Suicide: a New Look at the Arguments J.M. Dieterle
60. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments J. J. Thomson.
Index

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