This book explores the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality. Bioethics, if it is to be effective, must engage with and address the actualities of modern life: policies, regulations, markets, opinions, and technological advances. In these original contributions fifteen notable scholars working in the North West of England take on this challenge.
Values in Bioethics (ViB) makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.
Table of contents:
Foreword by John Harris
Preface
Introduction Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, and Peter Herissone-Kelly: The Social Reality of Bioethics
ONE Harry LESSER: The Case of Back-Street Abortion
TWO Doris SCHROEDER: Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and the Duty to Die
THREE Matti HÄYRY: Forget Autonomy and Give Me Freedom!
FOUR Monique JONAS: Choosing Between Claims: Allocating Parental Responsibility in Surrogacy Disputes
FIVE Tuija TAKALA: The Many Wrongs of Human Reproductive Cloning
SIX Louise IRVING: The Problem of Intangibles
SEVEN Eve GARRARD and Stephen WILKINSON: Mind the Gap: The Use of Empirical Evidence in Bioethics
EIGHT Angus DAWSON: Informed Consent: Bioethical Ideal and Empirical Reality
NINE Søren HOLM: What Empirical Bioethics Can Learn from Empirical Business Ethics
TEN Jukka KILPI: On Corporate Ethical Responsibility, Stakeholder Value, and Strict Liability in Biotechnology
ELEVEN Peter LUCAS: Perspectivism in Risk Management
TWELVE Simon WOODS: Moral Progress
THIRTEEN Mark SHEEHAN: Healthcare and (a Kind of) Virtue Ethics
FOURTEEN Peter HERISSONE-KELLY: Bioethics, Rights-Based Consequentialism, and Social Reality
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Values in Bioethics (ViB) makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.
Table of contents:
Foreword by John Harris
Preface
Introduction Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, and Peter Herissone-Kelly: The Social Reality of Bioethics
ONE Harry LESSER: The Case of Back-Street Abortion
TWO Doris SCHROEDER: Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and the Duty to Die
THREE Matti HÄYRY: Forget Autonomy and Give Me Freedom!
FOUR Monique JONAS: Choosing Between Claims: Allocating Parental Responsibility in Surrogacy Disputes
FIVE Tuija TAKALA: The Many Wrongs of Human Reproductive Cloning
SIX Louise IRVING: The Problem of Intangibles
SEVEN Eve GARRARD and Stephen WILKINSON: Mind the Gap: The Use of Empirical Evidence in Bioethics
EIGHT Angus DAWSON: Informed Consent: Bioethical Ideal and Empirical Reality
NINE Søren HOLM: What Empirical Bioethics Can Learn from Empirical Business Ethics
TEN Jukka KILPI: On Corporate Ethical Responsibility, Stakeholder Value, and Strict Liability in Biotechnology
ELEVEN Peter LUCAS: Perspectivism in Risk Management
TWELVE Simon WOODS: Moral Progress
THIRTEEN Mark SHEEHAN: Healthcare and (a Kind of) Virtue Ethics
FOURTEEN Peter HERISSONE-KELLY: Bioethics, Rights-Based Consequentialism, and Social Reality
About the Editors and Contributors
Index