Machine generated contents note: Stimulating Brains, Altering Minds / 96. Abortion and Infanticide -- 2. A Defense of Abortion / Francesca Minerva 3. The Wrong of Abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- 4. Why Abortion is Immoral / Patrick Lee / Robert P. George -- Introduction / Don Marquis -- Assisted Reproduction / Don Marquis -- 5. The McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice? / Don Marquis -- 6. The Meaning of Synthetic Gametes for Gay and Lesbian People and Bioethics Too / Gregory Pence -- 7. Rights, Interests, and Possible People / Timothy F. Murphy -- Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection, and Cloning / Derek Parfit -- 8. Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral? / Derek Parfit -- 9. Sex Selection and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis / The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine / Laura M. Purdy -- 10. Sex Selection and Preimplantation Diagnosis: A Response to the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine / Laura M. Purdy -- 11. Why We Should Not Permit Embryos to Be Selected as Tissue Donors / Julian Savulescu / Edgar Dahl -- 12. The Moral Status of Human Cloning: Neo-Lockean Persons versus Human Embryos / David King -- Introduction / Michael Tooley -- 13. Questions about Some Uses of Genetic Engineering / Michael Tooley -- 14. The Moral Significance of the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction in Human Genetics / Jonathan Glover -- 15. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity / David B. Resnik -- 16. Statement on NIH Funding of Research Using Gene-Editing Technologies in Human Embryos / Nick Bostrom -- 17. Genome Editing and Assisted Reproduction: Curing Embryos, Society or Prospective Parents? / Francis S. Collins -- 18. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad (Germline Editing) Wolf? / Giulia Cavaliere -- 19. An Ethical Pathway for Gene Editing / R. Alta Charo -- Introduction / Julian Savulescu / Peter Singer -- 20. The Sanctity of Life / Julian Savulescu / Peter Singer -- 21. Declaration on Euthanasia / Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith / Jonathan Glover -- Killing and Letting Die / Jonathan Glover -- 22. Active and Passive Euthanasia / Jonathan Glover -- 23. The Morality of Killing: A Traditional View / James Rachels -- 24. Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die? / Germain Grisez / Joseph M. Boyle Jr -- 25. Why Killing is Not Always Worse -- and Sometimes Better -- Than Letting Die / Winston Nesbitt -- 26. Moral Fictions and Medical Ethics / Helga Kuhse -- Newborns / Franklin G. Miller / Robert D. Truog / Dan W. Brock -- 27. Can a Physician Ever Justifiably Euthanize a Severely Disabled Newborn? / Franklin G. Miller / Robert D. Truog / Dan W. Brock -- 28. No to Infant Euthanasia / Robert M. Sade -- 29. Physicians Can Justifiably Euthanize Certain Severely Impaired Neonates / Gilbert Meilaender -- 30. You Should Not Have Let Your Baby Die / Udo Schuklenk -- 31. After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live? / Gary Comstock -- 32. Does a Human Being Gain the Right to Live after He or She is Born? / Alberto Giubilini / Francesca Minerva -- 33. Hard Lessons: Learning from the Charlie Gard Case / Christopher Kaczor -- Brain Death / Dominic Wilkinson / Julian Savulescu -- 34. A Definition of Irreversible Coma / Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death / Dominic Wilkinson / Julian Savulescu -- 35. The Challenge of Brain Death for the Sanctity of Life Ethic / Dominic Wilkinson / Julian Savulescu -- 36. The Philosophical Debate / The President's Council on Bioethics / Peter Singer -- 37. An Alternative to Brain Death / Peter Singer -- Advance Directives / Jeff McMahan -- 38. Life Past Reason / Jeff McMahan -- 39. Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy / Ronald Dworkin -- Voluntary Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide / Rebecca Dresser -- 40. The Note / Rebecca Dresser -- 41. When Self-Determination Runs Amok / Chris Hill -- 42. When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok / Daniel Callahan -- 43. Physician-Assisted Death and Severe, Treatment-Resistant Depression / John Lachs -- 44. Are Concerns about Irremediableness, Vulnerability, or Competence Sufficient to Justify Excluding All Psychiatric Patients from Medical Aid in Dying? / Bonnie Steinbock -- Introduction / William Rooney / Udo Schuklenk / Suzanne van de Vathorst -- 45. In a Pandemic, Should We Save Younger Lives? / William Rooney / Udo Schuklenk / Suzanne van de Vathorst -- 46. The Value of Life / Peter Singer / Lucy Winkett -- 47. Bubbles under the Wallpaper: Healthcare Rationing and Discrimination / John Harris -- 48. Rescuing Lives: Can't We Count? / Nick Beckstead / Toby Ord -- 49. Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation? / Paul T. Menzel -- Introduction / Alvin H. Moss / Mark Siegler -- 50. Organ Donation and Retrieval: Whose Body is it Anyway? / Alvin H. Moss / Mark Siegler -- 51. The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales / Eike-Henner W. Kluge -- 52. Ethical Issues in the Supply and Demand of Kidneys / R. Hoffenberg / N. Tilney / R.A. Sells / M. Lock / Janet Radcliffe-Richards / A.S. Daar / R.D. Guttmann / I. Kennedy -- 53. The Survival Lottery / Debra Satz -- Introduction / John Harris -- Experimentation with Humans / John Harris -- 54. Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research / John Harris / National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- 55. Scientific Research is a Moral Duty / John Harris -- 56. Participation in Biomedical Research is an Imperfect Moral Duty: A Response to John Harris / John Harris -- 57. Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries / Kenneth D. Pimple / Sandra Shapshay -- 58. We're Trying to Help Our Sickest People, Not Exploit Them / Peter Lurie / Sidney M. Wolfe -- 59. Pandemic Ethics: The Case for Risky Research / Philippa Musoke-Mudido / Danstan Bagenda -- Experimentation with Animals / Peter Singer / Richard Yetter Chappell -- 60. Duties towards Animals / Richard Yetter Chappell / Peter Singer -- 61. A Utilitarian View / Immanuel Kant -- 62. The Harmful, Nontherapeutic Use of Animals in Research is Morally Wrong / Jeremy Bentham -- 63. The Use of Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Research / Nathan Nobis -- 64. Ethical Issues When Modelling Brain Disorders in Non-Human Primates / Dario L. Ringach -- Academic Freedom and Research / Carolyn P. Neuhaus -- 65. On Liberty / Carolyn P. Neuhaus -- 66. Should Some Knowledge Be Forbidden?:The Case of Cognitive Differences Research / John Stuart Mill -- 67. Academic Freedom and Race: You Ought Not to Believe What You Think May Be True / Janet A. Kourany -- Introduction / James R. Flynn -- 68. Ethics and Infectious Disease / James R. Flynn -- 69. XDR-TB in South Africa: No Time for Denial or Complacency / Michael J. Selgelid -- 70. Clinical Ethics During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Missing the Trees for the Forest / Jerome Amir Singh / Ross Upshur / Nesri Padayatchi -- 71. The Moral Obligation to be Vaccinated: Utilitarianism, Contractualism, and Collective Easy Rescue / Vijayaprasad Gopichandran -- 72. Taking Responsibility for Responsibility / Alberto Giubilini / Julian Savulescu / Thomas Douglas -- Introduction / Neil Levy -- When do Doctors have a Duty to Treat? / Neil Levy -- 73. What Healthcare Professionals Owe Us: Why Their Duty to Treat During a Pandemic is Contingent on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) / Neil Levy -- 74. Conscientious Objection in Health Care / Udo Schuklenk -- 75. Conscientious Objection in Medicine: Accommodation versus Professionalism and the Public Good / Mark R. Wicclair -- Confidentiality / Udo Schuklenk -- 76. Confidentiality in Medicine: A Decrepit Concept / Udo Schuklenk -- 77. A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality / Mark Siegler -- Truth-Telling / Kenneth Kipnis -- 78. On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives / Kenneth Kipnis -- 79. Should Doctors Tell the Truth? / Immanuel Kant -- 80. On Telling Patients the Truth / Joseph Collins -- Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy / Roger Higgs -- 81. On Liberty / Roger Higgs -- 82. From Schloendo v. New York Hospital / John Stuart Mill -- 83. Informed Consent: Its History, Meaning, and Present Challenges / Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo -- 84. The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Different Cultures / Tom L. Beauchamp -- 85. Transgender Children and the Right to Transition: Medical Ethics When Parents Mean Well But Cause Harm / Ruth Macklin -- 86. Amputees by Choice / Maura Priest -- 87. Rational Desires and the Limitation of Life-Sustaining Treatment / Carl Elliott -- Introduction / Julian Savulescu -- 88. Valuing Disability, Causing Disability / Julian Savulescu -- 89. Is Disability Mere Difference? / Elizabeth Barnes -- 90. Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy / Greg Bognar -- 91. Down Syndrome Screening Isn't about Public Health: It's about Eliminating a Group of People / Adrienne Asch -- 92. I Would've Aborted a Fetus with Down Syndrome: Women Need that Right / Renate Lindeman -- Introduction / Ruth Marcus -- 93. Neuroethics: Ethics and the Sciences of the Mind / Ruth Marcus -- 94. Engineering Love / Neil Levy -- 95. Unrequited Love Hurts: Should Doctors Treat Broken Hearts? / Julian Savulescu / Anders Sandberg -- 96. Stimulating Brains, Altering Minds / Francesca Minerva Note continued: 98. On the Necessity of Ethical Guidelines for Novel Neurotechnologies / Felicitas Kraemer. 98. On the Necessity of Ethical Guidelines for Novel Neurotechnologies / Felicitas Kraemer.
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