Bioethics

ISBN-13: 9781032638126 / Twarda / 2024 / 220 str.

Chiara Lepora

Opis

Bioethics: Fifty Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments collects 50 cases—both real and imaginary—that have been, or should be, of special interest and importance to philosophical bioethics. Cases are collected together under topical headings in a natural order for an introductory course in bioethics.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Bioethics and Philosophical Methodology  Part II: Creating Life  Part III: Value of Life: Disability and Well-Being  Part IV: Deciding for Others  Part V: Deciding for Yourself  Part VI: Killing and Dying  Part VII: The Ethics of Clinical Research  Part VIII: Fair Distribution  Part IX: Public Health: Freedom and Justice  Part X: The Boundaries of Medicine  Part XI: Medicine across Borders: Dilemmas of Complicity and Compromise

O autorze

Sean D. Aas is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University. His primary areas of research are bioethics and social and political philosophy, with a significant focus on issues of disability: disability as social construct, disability and political egalitarianism, disability and health.　

Collin O'Neil is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Lehman College, City University of New York. He teaches and writes on applied ethics, especially medical and clinical research ethics, and topics in legal philosophy.　

Chiara Lepora has worked for Médecins Sans Frontières since 2002 and is currently Head of the Manson Unit for MSF UK. She is a medical doctor who conducts research on the ethics of humanitarian assistance and coauthored, with Robert E. Goodin, the book, On Complicity and Compromise (2013).