Bioethics An Anthology

Abortion and health care ethics / John Finnis --
Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley --
A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson --
Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis --
Multiple gestation and damaged babies : God\'s will or human choice? / Gregory Pence --
Assisted reproduction in same sex couples / Dorothy A. Greenfeld and Emre Seli --
Rights, interests, and possible people / Derek Parfit --
The ethics of uterus transplantation / Ruby Catsanos, Wendy Rogers, and Mianna Lotz --
Genetics and reproductive risk : can having children be immoral? / Laura M. Purdy --
Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion : a challenge to practice and policy / Adrienne Asch --
Genetic technology : a threat to deafness / Ruth Chadwick and Mari Levitt --
Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis / The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine --
Conception to obtain hematopoietic stem cells / John A. Robertson, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and John E. Wagner --
Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors / David King --
The moral status of the cloning of humans / Michael Tooley --
Questions about some uses of genetic engineering / Jonathan Glover --
The Moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics / David B. Resnick --
Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence? / Ainsley Newson and Robert Williamson --
In defense of posthuman dignity / Nick Bostrom --
The sanctity of life / Jonathan Glover --
Declaration on euthanasia / Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith --
The morality of killing : a traditional view / Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. --
Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels --
Is killing no worse than letting die? / Winston Nesbitt --
Why killing is not always worse --
and sometimes better --
than letting die / Helga Kuhse --
Mortal fictions and medical ethics / Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog, and Dan W. Brock. When care cannot cure : medical problems in seriously ill babies / Neil Campbell --
The abnormal child : moral dilemmas of doctors and parents / R.M. Hare --
Right to life of handicapped / Alison Davis --
Conjoined twins : embodied personhood, and surgical separation / Christine Overall --
A definition of irreversible coma / Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death --
Is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? / Peter Singer --
Life past reason / Ronald Dworkin --
Dworkin on dementia : elegant theory, questionable policy / Rebecca Dresser --
The note / Chris Hill --
When self-determination runs amok / Daniel Callahan --
When abstract moralizing runs amok / John Lachs --
Trends in end-of-life practices before and after the enactment of the Euthanasia Law in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2010 : a repeated cross-sectional survey / Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Arianne Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, Corine Penning, Gwen J.F. De Jong-Krul, Johannes J.M. van Delden, and Agnes van der Heide --
Euthanasia in the Netherlands : what lessons for elsewhere? / Bernard Lo --
Rescuing lives : can\'t we count? / Paul T. Menzel --
Should alcoholics compete equally for liver transplantation? / Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler --
The value of life / John Harris --
Organ donation and retrieval : whose body is it anyway? / Eike-Henner W. Kluge --
The case for allowing kidney sales / Janet Radcliffe-Richards, A.S. Daar, R.D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, I. Kennedy, M. Lock, R.A. Sells, N. Tilney, and for the International Forum for Transplant Ethics --
Ethical issues in the supply and demand of human kidneys / Debra Satz --
The Survival lottery / John Harris --
Ethics and clinical research / Henry K. Beecher --
Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research / Benjamin Freedman --
The patient and the public good / Samuel Hellman --
Participation in biomedical research is an imperfect moral duty : a response to John Harris / Sandra Shapshay and Kenneth D. Pimple --
Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries / Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe --
We\'re trying to help our sickest people, not exploit them / Danstan Bagenda and Philippa Musoke-Mudido --
Medical researchers\' ancillary clinical care responsibilities / Leah Belsky and Henry S. Richardson. President discusses stem cell research / George W. Bush --
Killing embryos for stem cell research / Jeff McMahan --
Duties toward animals / Immanuel Kant --
A utilitarian view / Jeremy Bentham --
All animals are equal / Peter Singer --
Vivisection, morals and medicine : an exchange / R.G. Frey and Sir William Paton --
Ethics and infectious disease / Michael J. Selgelid --
Rethinking mandatory HIV testing during pregnancy in areas with high HIV prevalence rates : ethical and policy issues / Udo Schüklenk and Anita Kleinsmidt --
Mandatory HIV testing in pregnancy : is there ever a time? / Russell Armstrong --
XDR-TB in South Africa : no time for denial or complacency / Jerome Amir Singh, Ross Upshur, and Nesri Padayatchi --
Confidentiality in medicine : a decrepit concept / Mark Siegler --
The duty to warn and clinical ethics : legal and ethical aspect of confidentiality and HIV/AIDS / Christian Säfken and Andreas Frewer --
On a supposed right to lie from altruistic motives / Immanuel Kant --
Should doctors tell the truth? / Joseph Collins --
On telling patients the truth / Roger Higgs --
On liberty / John Stuart Mills --
From Schloendorff v. New York Hospital / Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo --
Informed consent : its history, meaning, and present challenges / Tom L. Beauchamp --
The Doctor-patient relationship in different cultures / Ruth Macklin --
Amputees by choice / Carl Elliott --
Rational desires and the limitation of life-sustaining treatment / Julian Savulescu --
The nocebo effect of informed consent / Shlomo Cohen --
The relation of the nurse to the doctor and the doctor to the nurse / Sarah E. Dock --
In defense of the traditional nurse / Lisa H. Newton --
Health and human rights advocacy : perspectives from a Rwandan refugee camp / Carol Pavlish, Anita Ho, and Ann-Marie Rounkle --
Neuroethics : an agenda for neuroscience and society / Jonathan D. Moreno --
How electrical brain stimulation can change the way we think / Sally Adee --
Neuroethics : ethics and the sciences of the mind / Neil Levy --
Freedom of memory today / Adam Kolber --
Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy / Henry Greely, Barbara Sahakian, John Harris, Ronald C. Kessler, Michael Gazzaniga, Philip Campbell, and Martha J. Farah --
Engineering love / Julian Savulescu and Anders Sandberg.