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This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.;List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Introduction: 1. What is bioethics? a historical introduction -- Part II. Questions about bioethics: 2. Ethical theory and bioethics; 3. Culture and bioethics; 4. Gender and bioethics; 5. Religion and bioethics; 6. Law and bioethics -- Part III. Ethical approaches: 7. A principle-based approach; 8. Exceptionless rule approaches; 9. A utilitarian approach; 10. A virtue ethics approach; 11. A care approach; 12. A case approach -- Part IV. Before birth: issues involving embryos and fetuses: 13. Personhood; 14. Abortion; 15. Mother & fetus conflict; Part V Issues in reproduction; 16. Population; 17. Assisted reproduction, prenatal testing, and sex selection; 18. Cloning -- Part VI. The new genetics: 19. Gene therapy; 20. Genetic enhancement; 21. Creating and patenting new life forms; 22. Genetic counseling, testing, and screening -- Part VII. Life and death issues: 23. Medical decisions at the end of life; 24. Severely disabled newborns; 25. Death, brain death, and persistent vegetative state; 26. Advance directives; 27. Voluntary euthanasia, suicide, and physician-assisted suicide; 28. The slippery slope argument.;Part VIII. Resource allocation: 29. Deciding between patients; 30. Societys allocation of resources for health; 31. Is There a right to health care and, if so, what does it encompass? -- Part IX. Organ donations: 32. A world of transferable parts -- Part X. Global health-care issues: 33. Global health responsibilities; 34. Developing world challenges; 35. Global pharmaceutical markets; 36. Infectious disease; 37. AIDS as a global health emergency -- Part XI. Experimentation with humans and animals: 38. Research involving human beings; 39. Regulating experimentation in research and medical practice; 40. Research using preimplantation human embryos; 41. The moral status of animals and their use as experimental subjects -- Part XII. Ethical issues in the practice of health care: 42. Confidentiality; 43. Truth-telling; 44. Informed consent and patient autonomy; 45. Patients doubtfully capable or incapable of consent; 46. Ethics in nursing practice; 47. Global trends in nursing ethics -- Part XIII. The teaching and practice of bioethics: 48. Ethics committees and ethics consultants; 49. Teaching ethics in the health professions.

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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

This outstanding student reference series offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of philosophy as a whole. Written by todays leading philosophers, each volume provides lucid and engaging coverage of the key figures, terms, topics, and problems of the field. Taken together, the volumes provide the ideal basis for course use, representing an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialists alike.

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1 The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, Second Edition
Edited by Nicholas Bunnin and Eric Tsui-James
2 A Companion to Ethics
Edited by Peter Singer
3 A Companion to Aesthetics, Second Edition
Edited by Stephen Davies, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker, and David E. Cooper
4 A Companion to Epistemology
Edited by Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa
5 A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (two-volume set), Second Edition
Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit
6 A Companion to Philosophy of Mind
Edited by Samuel Guttenplan
7 A Companion to Metaphysics, Second Edition
Edited by Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, and Gary S. Rosenkrantz
8 A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
Edited by Dennis Patterson
9 A Companion to Philosophy of Religion
Edited by Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro
10 A Companion to the Philosophy of Language
Edited by Bob Hale and Crispin Wright
11 A Companion to World Philosophies
Edited by Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bontekoe
12 A Companion to Continental Philosophy
Edited by Simon Critchley and William Schroeder
13 A Companion to Feminist Philosophy
Edited by Alison M. Jaggar and Iris Marion Young
14 A Companion to Cognitive Science
Edited by William Bechtel and George Graham
15 A Companion to Bioethics, Second Edition
Edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
16 A Companion to the Philosophers
Edited by Robert L. Arrington
17 A Companion to Business Ethics
Edited by Robert E. Frederick
18 A Companion to the Philosophy of Science
Edited by W. H. Newton-Smith
19 A Companion to Environmental Philosophy
Edited by Dale Jamieson
20 A Companion to Analytic Philosophy
Edited by A. P. Martinich and David Sosa
21 A Companion to Genethics
Edited by Justine Burley and John Harris
22 A Companion to Philosophical Logic
Edited by Dale Jacquette
23 A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
Edited by Steven Nadler
24 A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Edited by Jorge J. E. Gracia and Timothy B. Noone
25 A Companion to African-American Philosophy
Edited by Tommy L. Lott and John P. Pittman
26 A Companion to Applied Ethics
Edited by R. G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman
27 A Companion to the Philosophy of Education
Edited by Randall Curren
28 A Companion to African Philosophy
Edited by Kwasi Wiredu
29 A Companion to Heidegger
Edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall
30 A Companion to Rationalism
Edited by Alan Nelson
31 A Companion to Ancient Philosophy
Edited by Mary Louise Gill and Pierre Pellegrin
32 A Companion to Pragmatism
Edited by John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis
33 A Companion to Nietzsche
Edited by Keith Ansell Pearson
34 A Companion to Socrates
Edited by Sara Ahbel-Rappe and Rachana Kamtekar
35 A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism
Edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall
36 A Companion to Kant
Edited by Graham Bird
37 A Companion to Plato
Edited by Hugh H. Benson
38 A Companion to Descartes
Edited by Janet Broughton and John Carriero
39 A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
Edited by Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski
40 A Companion to Hume
Edited by Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
41 A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography
Edited by Aviezer Tucker
42 A Companion to Aristotle
Edited by Georgios Anagnostopoulos
43 A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
Edited by Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen, Stig Andur Pedersen, and Vincent F. Hendricks
Also under contract:
A Companion to Philosophy of Literature, Edited by Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost
A Companion to Schopenhauer, Edited by Bart Vandenabeele
A Companion to Relativism, Edited by Steven D. Hales

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This second edition first published 2009
2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Except chapter 18 Gregory E. Pence
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