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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Oxford handbook of bioethics. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)76360789 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bonnie Steinbock |
ISBN: | 9781429470780 142947078X 0199562415 9780199562411 |
OCLC Number: | 139986705 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 747 pages) |
Contents: | Part I. Theoretical and methodological issues -- Methods in bioethics / James Childress -- The way we reason now : reflective equilibrium in bioethics / John Arras -- Autonomy / Bruce Jennings -- Mental disorder, moral agency, and the self / Jeanette Kennett -- 'Reinventing' the rule of double effect / Daniel Sulmasy -- Part II. Justice and policy -- Policy-making in pluralistic societies / Soren Holm -- Tiers without tears : the ethics of a two-tiered health care system / Benjamin J. Krohmal and Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- Justice and the elderly / Dennis McKerlie -- Part III. Bodies and bodily parts -- Organ transplantation / Ronald Munson -- Biobanking / John Harris and Louise Irving -- For dignity or money : feminists on the commodification of women's reproductive labour / Carolyn McLeod -- Part IV. The end of life -- The definition of death / Stuart Youngner -- The aging society and the expansion of senility : biotechnological and treatment goals / Stephen Post -- Death is a punch in the jaw : life-extension and its discontents / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- Precedent autonomy, advance directives, and end-of-life care / John K. Davis -- Physician-assisted death : the state of the debate / Gerald Dworkin -- Part V. Reproduction and cloning -- Abortion revisited / Don Marquis -- Moral status, moral value, and human embryos : implications for stem cell research / Bonnie Steinbock -- Therapeutic cloning : politics and policy / Andrea Bonnicksen -- Part VI. Genetics and enhancement -- Population genetic research and screening : conceptual and ethical issues / Eric Juengst -- Enhancement / Thomas Murray -- Genetic interventions and the ethics of enhancement of human beings / Julian Savulescu -- Pharmacogenomics : ethical and regulatory issues / Matthew DeCamp and Allen Buchanan -- Part VII. Research ethics -- Clinical equipoise : foundational requirement or fundamental error / Alex John London -- Research on cognitively impaired adults / Jason Karlawish -- Research in developing countries / Florencia Luna -- Animal experimentation / Alastair Norcross -- Part VIII. Public and global health -- The implications of public health for bioethics / Jeffrey Kahn and Anna Mastroianni -- Global health / Ruth Macklin -- Bioethics and bioterrorism / Jonathan Moreno. |
Series Title: | Oxford handbooks. |
Other Titles: | Handbook of bioethics |
Responsibility: | edited by Bonnie Steinbock. |
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Abstract:
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.
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This volume from Oxford University Press, edited by philosopher Bonnie Steinbock, is an excellent resource for those who want to delve deeper into philosophical issues raised by the concerns of bioethics. * David B. Fletcher, Themelios * ...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. * Annette Rid Medicine Health Care and Philosophy * Read more...
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