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Title:

The Oxford handbook of bioethics / edited by Bonnie Steinbock.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xviii, 747 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Bioethical Issues.
Bioethics.
Bioethics.

Other Authors:

Steinbock, Bonnie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index. "First published in paperback 2009." T.p. verso.

Contents:

Introduction / Gerald Dworkin -- Physician assisted death : the state of the debate / Methods in bioethics / James Childress -- 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 -- Justice and policy. Policy making in pluralistic societies / Søren Holm -- Tiers without tears : the ethics of a two tiered health care system / Benjamin J. Krohmal, Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- Justice and the elderly / Dennis McKerlie -- Bodies and bodily parts. Organ transplantation / Ronald Munson -- Biobanking / John Harris, Louise Irving -- For dignity or money : feminists on the commodification of women's reproductive labour / Carolyn McLeod -- End of life. Definition of death / Stuart Youngner -- 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 --
Bioethics and bioterrorism / Abortion revisited / Jonathan Moreno. Moral status, moral value, and human embryos : implications for stem cell research / Bonnie Steinbock -- Therapeutic cloning : politics and policy / Andrea Bonnicksen -- 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, Allen Buchanan -- 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 -- Public and global health. Implications of public health for bioethics / Jeffrey Kahn, Anna Mastroianni -- Global health / Ruth Macklin -- Bioethics and bioterrorism / Jonathan Moreno.

Summary:

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, as well as by some newer 'up and comers'.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

ISBN:

0199562415
9780199562411
0199273359 (alk. paper)
9780199273355 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76360789

LCCN:

2007279185

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)