Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781405163316 |
| eText ISBN | 9781444307825 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publishing Year | 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 636 |
A Companion to Bioethics is a reference work examining foundational theories and practical controversies across biomedicine and healthcare. Edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer, the volume presents philosophical analyses of moral dilemmas arising in clinical practice, scientific research, and health policy.
The collection organizes its coverage thematically across core areas of bioethics. Key topics include beginning-of-life debates over reproductive technologies and the moral status of embryos, as well as end-of-life considerations such as advance directives, brain death, and assisted suicide. Further discussions explore resource allocation, organ donation, and animal experimentation.
A detailed index allows readers to locate subjects and terms that do not appear in chapter titles. The text serves students, scholars, ethics committee members, and professionals across healthcare, philosophy, and law.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction
Chapter 2: Ethical Theory and Bioethics
Chapter 3: Culture and Bioethics
Chapter 4: Gender and Bioethics
Chapter 5: Religion and Bioethics
Chapter 6: Law and Bioethics
Chapter 7: A Principle-based Approach
Chapter 8: Exceptionless Rule Approaches
Chapter 9: A Utilitarian Approach
Chapter 10: A Virtue Ethics Approach
Chapter 11: A Care Approach
Chapter 12: A Case Approach
Chapter 13: Personhood
Chapter 14: Abortion
Chapter 15: Mother-Fetus Conflict
Chapter 16: Population
Chapter 17: Assisted Reproduction, Prenatal Testing, and Sex Selection
Chapter 18: Cloning
Chapter 19: Gene Therapy
Chapter 20: Genetic Enhancement
Chapter 21: Creating and Patenting New Life Forms
Chapter 22: Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Screening
Chapter 23: Medical Decisions at the End of Life
Chapter 24: Severely Disabled Newborns
Chapter 25: Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State
Chapter 26: Advance Directives
Chapter 27: Voluntary Euthanasia, Suicide, and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Chapter 28: The Slippery Slope Argument
Chapter 29: Deciding between Patients
Chapter 30: Society's Allocation of Resources for Health
Chapter 31: Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does It Encompass?
Chapter 32: A World of Transferable Parts
Chapter 33: Global Health Responsibilities
Chapter 34: Developing World Challenges
Chapter 35: Global Pharmaceutical Markets
Chapter 36: Infectious Disease
Chapter 37: AIDS as a Global Health Emergency
Chapter 38: Research Involving Human Beings
Chapter 39: Regulating Experimentation in Research and Medical Practice
Chapter 40: Research Using Preimplantation Human Embryos
Chapter 41: The Moral Status of Animals and Their Use as Experimental Subjects
Chapter 42: Confidentiality
Chapter 43: Truth-Telling
Chapter 44: Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy
Chapter 45: Patients Doubtfully Capable or Incapable of Consent
Chapter 46: Ethics in Nursing Practice
Chapter 47: Global Trends in Nursing Ethics
Chapter 48: Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants
Chapter 49: Teaching Ethics in the Health Professions
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