Current Controversies in Bioethics

ISBN-13: 9780367872755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 182 str.

S. Matthew Liao; Collin O'Neil

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Historically, bioethics has been associated with issues in research ethics and clinical ethics as a result of research scandals such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and public debates about the definition of death, medical paternalism, health care rationing, and abortion. As biomedical technologies have advanced, challenging new questions have ar

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Contributors

Bioethics: Current Controversies

S. Matthew Liao and Collin O’Neil

 

Part I

Research Ethics: How Should We Justify Ancillary Care Duties?

1. Locating Medical Researchers’ Ancillary-Care Obligations within the Division of Moral Labor







Henry S. Richardson












2. The Grounds of Ancillary Care Duties







S. Matthew Liao and Collin O’Neil








Part I Suggested Readings








Part II





Clinical Ethics: Are Psychopaths Morally Accountable?












3. Fine Cuts of Moral Agency: Dissociable Deficits in Psychopathy and Autism







Dana Kay Nelkin












4. Holding Psychopaths Responsible and the Guise of the Good







Agnieszka Jaworska








Part II Suggested Readings








　





Part III





Reproductive Ethics: Is There a Solution to the Non-Identity Problem?












5. Dividing and Conquering the Nonidentity Problem







Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman












6. The Nonidentity Problem: United and Unconquered







Saul Smilansky








Part III Suggested Readings








　





Part IV





Neuroethics: What Is Addiction and Does It Excuse?












7. Addiction, Habits, and Blame







Timothy Schroeder and Nomy Arpaly












8. How Addicts Lose Control







Neil Levy








Part IV Suggested Readings








　





Part V





Public Health Ethics: Is Luck Egalitarianism Implausibly Harsh?








　









9. Rarely Harsh and Always Fair: Luck Egalitarianism and Unhealthy Choices







Zofia Stemplowska












10. Luck Egalitarianism, Harshness, and the Rule of Res

O autorze

S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, New York University. He is the author or editor of The Right to Be Loved (2015) and Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2016), and co-edited Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (2015). He has been featured in the New York Times and other media outlets and is the Editor in Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Collin O’Neil is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, City University of New York. His recent publications have appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs, American Journal of Bioethics, and Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.