Arguing About Bioethics is a highly accessible, engaging introduction to the core questions in bioethics. This fresh, bold and exciting collection offers a selection of through provoking articles that examine a broad range of issues, from the definitions of life and death, to medical experimentation and research.The editor assembles some of the most influential and controversial contributions of key philosophers in the field, including Peter Singer, James Rachels, John Harris and Onora O'Neill, and challenges the reader to reflect on debates on:embryos and foetuses euthanasia organ donation human reproductive cloning patient consent and autonomy vaccination healthcare provision.The articles chosen are clear, interesting, and free from unnecessary jargon. The editor provies luid introductions to each section in which he provides and overview of the debate and outlines the arguments of the papers. Arguing About Bioethics is an original and stimulating reader for students new to bioethics.

Stephen Holland is a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Philosophy and Health Sciences at the University of York. UK.

Acknowledgements	p. xii
General Introduction	p. 1
Is it wrong to do research on human embryos?	p. 3
Introduction to Part One	p. 5
The Metaphysical Status of the Embryo: Some Arguments Revisited	p. 7
The Argument from Potential: A Reappaisal	p. 21
Potentialy and Human Embryos	p. 34
Stem Cells, Sex, Procreation	p. 42
On what grounds should we select and enhance our offspring?	p. 53
Introduction to Part Two	p. 55
The Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing: Reflections and Recommendations	p. 59
Procreative Beneficence: Why we Should Select the Best Children	p. 74
Preconception Gender Selection	p. 83
The Case Against Perfection: What's Wrong With Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic Engineering?	p. 93
Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective	p. 105
Is it wrong to clone human beings?	p. 117
Introduction to Part Three	p. 119
Cloning	p. 123
Why we Should Ban the Cloning of Humans: The Wisdom of Repugnance	p. 130
Uniqueness, Individuality, and Human Cloning	p. 149
Cloning, Parenthood, and Genetic Relatedness	p. 163
Slippery Shopes to Slippery Shopes: Therapeutic Cloning and The Criminal Law	p. 176
What uses of animals for biomedical purposes are permissible?	p. 179
Introduction to Part Four	p. 181
Animal Liberation at 30	p. 185
Do Animals Feel Pain?	p. 195
The Case For of Animals in Biomedical Research	p. 206
Is Xenografting Morally Wrong?	p. 214
Moral Sensiblities and Moral Standing: Caplan on Xenograft 'Donors'	p. 224
How should more human transplant organs be acquired?	p. 231
Introduction to Part Five	p. 233
Organs for Sale? Propriety, Property, and The Price of Progress	p. 237
The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales	p. 252
The Case for Presumed Consent to Transplant Human Organs After Death	p. 256
The Myth of Presumed Consent: Ethical In New Organ Procurement Strategies	p. 264
lMandated Choice for Organ Donation: Time to Give it a Try	p. 271
Donors and Relatives Must Place No Conditions on Organ Use	p. 277
What's Not Wrong with Conditional Organ Donation?	p. 278
Are Donors After Circulatory Death Really Dead, and Does It Matter? Yes and Yes	p. 282
Counterpoint: Are Donors After Circulatory Death Really Dead, and Does It Matter? No and Not Really	p. 287
Rebuttal	p. 291
What Sort of Consent Does Respect for Autonomy Imply?	p. 293
Introduction To Part Six	p. 295
Barriers to Informed Consent	p. 299
The Place of Autonomy in Bioethics	p. 308
Abandoning Informed Consent	p. 317
Should Informed Consent Be Based On Rational Beliefs?	p. 329
Some Limits of Informed Consent	p. 339
A New Model of Medical Decisions: Exploring the Limits of Shared Decision Making	p. 346
Is it permissible to impose on individuals for the sake of the public's health?	p. 355
Introduction To Part Seven	p. 357
Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain	p. 361
Public Health Law in an Age of Terrorism: Rethinking Individual Rights and Common Goods	p. 374
Behavioral Economics, Public Policy, and Paternalism: Libertarian Paternalism	p. 386
Obesity Interventions and Ethics	p. 392
Should Routine Childhood Immunizations Be Compulsory?	p. 398
Banning Smoking Outdoors Is Seldom Ethically Justifiable	p. 407
Ethics and the Conduct of Public Health Surveillance	p. 412
How are scarce medical resources to be justly allocated?	p. 417
Introduction to Part Eight	p. 419
The Value of Qalys	p. 423
Qalyfying the Value of Life	p. 428
The Rationing Debate. Rationing Health Care By Age: The Case For, and The Case Against	p. 439
Rationing and Life-Saving Treatments: Should Identifiable Patients Have Higher Priority?	p. 447
Health-Care Needs and Distributive Justice	p. 457
Do Western principles of research ethics apply in the developing world?	p. 473
Introduction to Part Nine	p. 475
Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries	p. 479
The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World	p. 485
Ethical Complexities of Conducting Research in Developing Countries	p. 490
The æBest Proven Therapeutic Method' Standard in Clinical Trials in Technologically Developing Countries	p. 495
Universality and Its Limits: When Research Ethics Can Reflect Local Circumstances	p. 502
Participants in the 2001 conference on ethical aspects of research in developing countries: Moral Standards for Research in Developing Countries: From æReasonable Availability' to 'Fair Benefits'	p. 514
Another Voice: Fair Benefits In International Medical Research	p. 528
Declaration of Helsinki: Another Revision	p. 530
Should doctors be allowed to help patients to kill themselves?	p. 535
Introduction to Part Ten	p. 537
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.	p. 541
Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief	p. 544
Autonomy and Assisted Suicide: The Execution of Freedom	p. 556
Physician-Assisted Suicide: A New Look at the Arguments	p. 563
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments	p. 579
Index	p. 597
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