Summary

This volume offers a compilation of articles chosen by the current and past editors of Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics, published in the journals during the last two decades. The Bioethics Reader's eight sections include some of the journals' best publications in areas comprising methodological issues, the health care professional-patient relationship, just health care, public health ethics, research ethics, genetics, as well as beginning- and end-of-life issues. The Bioethics Reader offers a good overview of discussions in the field of bioethics during the last twenty years. It will serve the academic bioethicists as well as students of bioethics as an excellent source book.The Editors of this volume donate their royalties from the sale of this book to Phedisang, a Southern African grass-roots non-governmental organisation serving the needs of AIDS orphans (www.phedisang.org).

Author Biography

Ruth Chadwick has been co-editor of Bioethics since 2000. She is Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen): a Lancaster-Cardiff collaboration.

Helga Kuhse is an Honorary Research Associate of the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics. She was Director of the Centre until June 1999. Kuhse is the author of Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics, The Sanctity of Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique, co-author of Should the Baby Live? with Peter Singer, editor of Willing to Listen - Wanting to Die and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Willem Landman was one of the founding editors and is currently co-editor of Developing World Bioethics. He is CEO of the Ethics Institute of South Africa (EthicSA), Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch, and Ethics Advisor to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva. He studied at the University of Oxford and taught bioethics at the University of North Carolina.

Udo Schuklenk has been co-editor of Bioethics since 2000. He was also one of the founding editors and is currently co-editor of Developing World Bioethics. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy in the Philosophy Department of Canada's Queen's University.

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, and The Ethics of What We Eat. He was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics.

Introduction
Doing Bioethics
A Report from America: When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip
Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below
What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations
in Defense of Posthuman Dignity
Healthcare Professional-Patient Relationship
Patients' Responsibilities in Medical Ethics
Clinical Ethics and Nursing: 'Yes' to Caring, But 'No' to a Female Ethics of Care
Background Briefing Psychiatric Ethics
Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification
Just Health Care
Patents and Access to Drugs in Developing Countries: An Ethical Analysis
Justice and Equal Opportunities in Health Care
Constraints and Heroes
Public Health Ethics
the Genesis of Public Health Ethics
Ethics and Infectious Disease
Vaccination and the Prevention Problem
Research Ethics
Background Briefing: International Research Ethics
Equipoise and International Human-Subjects Research
Symposium: Drugs for the Developing World, Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma
Some Questions about the Moral Responsibilities of Drug Companies in Developing Countries
Social Responsibility and Global Pharmaceutical Companies
Genetics
Do Human Cells Have Rights?
Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy
Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome
the Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms - the Case of Wrongful Handicaps
Coding and Consent: Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland
Beginning of Life Issues
Is It Good to Make Happy People?
Genes, Embryos, and Future People
Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children
the Problem of Abortion: Essentially Contested Concepts and Moral Autonomy
Law and Bioethics, the Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood
the Limits of Conscientious Objection to Abortion in the Developing World
Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment?
End of Life
the Metaphysics of Brain Death
Advance Directives, Autonomy and Unintended Death
End of Life Care in HIV-Infected Children Who Died in Hospital
Index
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