Kuhse, Helga ; Singer, Peter. A companion to bioethics. Massachusetts, USA : Blackwell Publisheres, 2001. 512p. ISBN 0-631-23019-X (paperback)   QH332 K96c 2001

CONTENTS

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS - XI

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - XV

PART I - INTRODUCTION

1 - What is bioethics? A historicaI introduction - Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer - 3

PART II - QUESTIONS ABOUT BIOETHICS

2 - Ethical theory and bioethics - James Rachels - 15
3 - Bioethics and cultural diversity - Segun Gbadegesin - 24
4 - Gender and bioethics - Jan Crosthwaite - 32
5 - Religion and bioethics - Baruch Brody - 41
6 - Law and bioethics - Wibren Van Der Burg - 49

PART III - ETHICAL APPROACHES

7 - A principle-based approach - James F. Childress - 61
8 - An absolute rule approach - Joseph Boyle - 72
9 - A Utilitarian approach - R. M. Hare - 80
10 - A virtue ethics approach - Justin Oakley - 86
11 - A care approach - Rita C. Manning - 98
12 - A case approach - John D. Arras - 106

PART IV - BEFORE BIRTH: ISSUES INVOLVING EMBRYOS AND FETUSES

13 - Personhood - Michael Tooley - 117
14 - Abortion - Mary Anne Warren - 127
15 - Mother-fetus conflict - Bonnie Steinbock - 135

PART V - ISSUES IN REPRODUCTION

16 - Population issues - Margaret Pabst Battin - 149
17 - Assisted reproduction - Laura M. Purdy - 163
18 - Prenatal screening, sex selection and cloning - Paul Robinson - 173

PART VI - THE NEW GENETICS

19 - Gene therapy - Ruth Chadwick - 189
20 - Mapping the human genome - Timothy Murphy - 198
21 - Creating and patenting new life forms - Nils Holtug - 206
22 - Genetic screening and counselling - Angus Clarke - 215

PART VII - LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES

23 - Medical decisions at the end of life - Dan W. Brock - 231
24 - SevereIy disabled newborns - Eike-Henner W. Kluge - 242
25 - Brain death, cortical death and persistent vegetative state - Jeff Mcmahan - 250
26 - Advance directives - Alexander Morgan Capron - 261
27 - Voluntary euthanasia, suicide and physician-assisted suicide - Brian Stoffell - 272
28 - The slippery sIope argument - Govert  Den Hartogh - 280

PART VIII - RESOURCE ALLOCATION

29 - Micro-allocation: deciding between patients - John Harris - 293
30 - Macro-allocation: dividing up the health care budget - Daniel Wikler and Sarah Marchand - 306
31 - Is there a right to health care and, if so, what does it encompass? - Norman Daniels - 316

PART IX - ORGAN DONATIONS

32 - Organ transplantation - Rosamond Rhodes - 329

PART X - AIDS

33 - AIDS: individual and 'public' interests - Udo Schüklenk - 343
34 - AIDS: ethical issues in the developing world - Udo Schüklenk, Vichai Chokevivat, Carlos del Rio, Segun Gbadegesin and Carlos Magis - 355

PART XI - EXPERIMENTATION WITH HUMAN SUBJECTS

35 - Experimentation on human beings - Paul M. Mcneill - 369
36 - Ethical issues in human experimentation - Leonardo D. de Castro - 379
37 - Experimentation on human embryos and fetuses - Mary Warnock - 390

PART XII - EXPERIMENTATION WITH ANIMALS

38 - History and ethical regulation of animal experimentation: an international perspective - F. Barbara Orlans - 399
39 - The moral status of animals and their use as experimental subjects - Bernard E. Rollin - 411

PART XIII - ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE PRACTICE OF HEALTH CARE
40 - Confidentiality - Raanan Gillon - 425
41 - Truth-telling  - Roger Higgs - 432
42 - Informed consent and patient autonomy - Robert Young - 441
43 - Patients doubtfully capable or incapable of consent - Carl Elliott - 452
44 - Special issues facing nurses - Verena Tschudin - 463

PART XIV - THE TEACHING AND PRACTICE OF BIOETHICS
45 - Ethics committees and ethics consultants - Jonathan D. Moreno - 475
46 - How bioethics is being taught: a critical review - Catherine Myser - 485