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Current Controversies in Bioethics book cover

1st Edition

Current Controversies in Bioethics

Edited By S Matthew Liao, Collin O'Neil Copyright 2017
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge
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Bioethics is the study of ethical issues arising out of advances in the life sciences and medicine. 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... Read more

Acknowledgements



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




    2. Henry S. Richardson







  2. The Grounds of Ancillary Care Duties




    3. 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




    4. Dana Kay Nelkin







  4. Holding Psychopaths Responsible and the Guise of the Good




    5. 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




    6. Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman







  6. The Nonidentity Problem: United and Unconquered




    7. Saul Smilansky





    Part III Suggested Readings





    　



    Part IV



    Neuroethics: What Is Addiction and Does It Excuse?







  7. Addiction, Habits, and Blame




    8. Timothy Schroeder and Nomy Arpaly







  8. How Addicts Lose Control




    9. 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




    10. Zofia Stemplowska







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

Biography

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.

"This book is admirably distinctive in the literature on bioethics. It is selective in addressing only five issues, each drawn from a different area of bioethics and discussed in a pair of contrasting essays. The issues are not only of great practical importance but also intellectually difficult. They demand engagement with matters of moral theory and require the most advanced understanding of relevant empirical material. The authors – all philosophers of distinction – abundantly satisfy these requirements, while also presenting their carefully-developed arguments in writing that is both lucid and accessible. The editors have done their work extremely well."

--Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford

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