Kuhse Helga - Bioethics: an anthology

President discusses stem cell research / George W. Bush -- Killing embryos for stem cell research / Jeff McMahan -- Duties toward animals / Immanuel Kant -- A utilitarian view / Jeremy Bentham -- All animals are equal / Peter Singer -- Vivisection, morals and medicine : an exchange / R.G. Frey and Sir William Paton -- Ethics and infectious disease / Michael J. Selgelid -- Rethinking mandatory HIV testing during pregnancy in areas with high HIV prevalence rates : ethical and policy issues / Udo Schklenk and Anita Kleinsmidt -- Mandatory HIV testing in pregnancy : is there ever a time? / Russell Armstrong -- XDR-TB in South Africa : no time for denial or complacency / Jerome Amir Singh, Ross Upshur, and Nesri Padayatchi -- Confidentiality in medicine : a decrepit concept / Mark Siegler -- The duty to warn and clinical ethics : legal and ethical aspect of confidentiality and HIV/AIDS / Christian Sfken and Andreas Frewer -- On a supposed right to lie from altruistic motives / Immanuel Kant -- Should doctors tell the truth? / Joseph Collins -- On telling patients the truth / Roger Higgs -- On liberty / John Stuart Mills -- From Schloendorff v. New York Hospital / Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo -- Informed consent : its history, meaning, and present challenges / Tom L. Beauchamp -- The Doctor-patient relationship in different cultures / Ruth Macklin -- Amputees by choice / Carl Elliott -- Rational desires and the limitation of life-sustaining treatment / Julian Savulescu -- The nocebo effect of informed consent / Shlomo Cohen -- The relation of the nurse to the doctor and the doctor to the nurse / Sarah E. Dock -- In defense of the traditional nurse / Lisa H. Newton -- Health and human rights advocacy : perspectives from a Rwandan refugee camp / Carol Pavlish, Anita Ho, and Ann-Marie Rounkle -- Neuroethics : an agenda for neuroscience and society / Jonathan D. Moreno -- How electrical brain stimulation can change the way we think / Sally Adee -- Neuroethics : ethics and the sciences of the mind / Neil Levy -- Freedom of memory today / Adam Kolber -- Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy / Henry Greely, Barbara Sahakian, John Harris, Ronald C. Kessler, Michael Gazzaniga, Philip Campbell, and Martha J. Farah -- Engineering love / Julian Savulescu and Anders Sandberg.;When care cannot cure : medical problems in seriously ill babies / Neil Campbell -- The abnormal child : moral dilemmas of doctors and parents / R.M. Hare -- Right to life of handicapped / Alison Davis -- Conjoined twins : embodied personhood, and surgical separation / Christine Overall -- A definition of irreversible coma / Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death -- Is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? / Peter Singer -- Life past reason / Ronald Dworkin -- Dworkin on dementia : elegant theory, questionable policy / Rebecca Dresser -- The note / Chris Hill -- When self-determination runs amok / Daniel Callahan -- When abstract moralizing runs amok / John Lachs -- Trends in end-of-life practices before and after the enactment of the Euthanasia Law in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2010 : a repeated cross-sectional survey / Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Arianne Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, Corine Penning, Gwen J.F. De Jong-Krul, Johannes J.M. van Delden, and Agnes van der Heide -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands : what lessons for elsewhere? / Bernard Lo -- Rescuing lives : cant we count? / Paul T. Menzel -- Should alcoholics compete equally for liver transplantation? / Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler -- The value of life / John Harris -- Organ donation and retrieval : whose body is it anyway? / Eike-Henner W. Kluge -- The case for allowing kidney sales / Janet Radcliffe-Richards, A.S. Daar, R.D. Guttmann, R. Hoffenberg, I. Kennedy, M. Lock, R.A. Sells, N. Tilney, and for the International Forum for Transplant Ethics -- Ethical issues in the supply and demand of human kidneys / Debra Satz -- The Survival lottery / John Harris -- Ethics and clinical research / Henry K. Beecher -- Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research / Benjamin Freedman -- The patient and the public good / Samuel Hellman -- Participation in biomedical research is an imperfect moral duty : a response to John Harris / Sandra Shapshay and Kenneth D. Pimple -- Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries / Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe -- Were trying to help our sickest people, not exploit them / Danstan Bagenda and Philippa Musoke-Mudido -- Medical researchers ancillary clinical care responsibilities / Leah Belsky and Henry S. Richardson.;Abortion and health care ethics / John Finnis -- Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis -- Multiple gestation and damaged babies : Gods will or human choice? / Gregory Pence -- Assisted reproduction in same sex couples / Dorothy A. Greenfeld and Emre Seli -- Rights, interests, and possible people / Derek Parfit -- The ethics of uterus transplantation / Ruby Catsanos, Wendy Rogers, and Mianna Lotz -- Genetics and reproductive risk : can having children be immoral? / Laura M. Purdy -- Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion : a challenge to practice and policy / Adrienne Asch -- Genetic technology : a threat to deafness / Ruth Chadwick and Mari Levitt -- Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis / The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine -- Conception to obtain hematopoietic stem cells / John A. Robertson, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and John E. Wagner -- Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors / David King -- The moral status of the cloning of humans / Michael Tooley -- Questions about some uses of genetic engineering / Jonathan Glover -- The Moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics / David B. Resnick -- Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence? / Ainsley Newson and Robert Williamson -- In defense of posthuman dignity / Nick Bostrom -- The sanctity of life / Jonathan Glover -- Declaration on euthanasia / Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- The morality of killing : a traditional view / Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Is killing no worse than letting die? / Winston Nesbitt -- Why killing is not always worse -- and sometimes better -- than letting die / Helga Kuhse -- Mortal fictions and medical ethics / Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog, and Dan W. Brock.