Bioethics: 50 Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Bioethics and Philosophical Methodology
	1 Bioethics as Moral Theory: The Transplant and the Trolley
	2 Bioethics as Metaphysics: The Brain Transplant
	3 Bioethics across Cultures: The Farewell
Part II: Creating Life
	4 Should I Have Children? The Islanders and the Cube
	5 Which Children Should I Have, I? The Non-Identity Problem
	6 Which Children Should I Have, II? Gattaca
	7 Making People Happy, or Making Happy People? The Repugnant Conclusion
	8 Is Abortion Permissible? Thomson’s Violinist
	9 What We Owe to Our Unborn Children: Rescues Easy and Hard
Part III: The Value of Life: Disability and Well-Being
	10 Is It Bad to Be Disabled, I? The Case of Cara and Daisy
	11 Is It Bad to Be Disabled, II? Adaptive Preference
	12 Morbidity versus Mortality: The QALY Trap
	13 What Makes a Disability? The Counterfactual Test
	14 When Is a Life Worth Living? The Challenge of Covert Consciousness
Part IV: Deciding for Others
	15 Deciding for Disability: The Ashley Treatment
	16 Dilemmas of Decision-Making: Kill Mary to Save Jodie?
	17 Deciding for the Future: Margo’s Advance Directive
	18 My Decision Alone? Family, Community, and Consent in Global Context
Part V: Deciding for Yourself
	19 Wrongs without Harms? Two Cases on the Basis of Informed Consent
	20 Who is Competent to Consent? Anorexia Nervosa
	21 The Ethics of Influence, I: A Clinical Nudge
	22 The Ethics of Influence, II: The Nocebo Effect
Part VI: Killing and Dying
	23 Better to Die? The “Mercy” Killing at Memorial
	24 To Kill, or Let Die? Rachels on Active and Passive Euthanasia
	25 What Does It Mean to Kill? Stopping Hearts, Artificial and Otherwise
	26 Counting Deaths: Statistical and Identified Lives
	27 What Does It Mean to Die, I? Jahi McMath and the Definition of Death
	28 What Does It Mean to Die, II? Death and the Sanctity of the Body in Islam
Part VII: The Ethics of Clinical Research
	29 When is Clinical Research Ethical? The Tuskegee Study
	30 Using or Misusing? The Short-Course AZT Trials
	31 What Can Consent Justify? Challenge Trials for COVID-19
	32 A Right to Try? Access to Experimental Medicine
Part VIII: Fair Distribution
	33 Do the Numbers Count? Taurek’s Tradeoffs
	34 Ours or Us? Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cell Line
	35 Allocation in an Emergency: Ventilator Triage
	36 Data and Distribution: Algorithmic Fairness
	37 Fairness in the Clinic: The Racial Empathy Gap
Part IX: Public Health: Freedom and Justice
	38 Fair Access to Care, or Freedom of Conscience? Physician Refusals
	39 Stay at Home? The Ethics of Lockdowns
	40 Freedom and Viruses: The Case of Medical Misinformation
	41 My Body, My Choice? Vaccine Mandates
Part X: The Boundaries of Medicine
	42 What Should We Change? The Yeshiva Student and His Orientations
	43 Can Medicine Make Us Better? The God Machine
Part XI: Medicine across Borders: Dilemmas of Complicity and Compromise
	44 Does It Harm to Help? Rescuing Migrants
	45 Who Owns the Image? Photographing Survivors
	46 Harm Minimization, I: Female Genital Cutting
	47 Harm Minimization, II: Physicians and Caning
	48 Doing the Best with What We Have? Foreign Medicine and the Haiti Earthquake
	49 How to Keep Helping, I: Taking Sides in the Arab Spring?
	50 How to Keep Helping, II: Compromise with the Taliban
Index