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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Compliance Resources > Contemporary Issues in Bioethics

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
edited by Tom Beauchamp, LeRoy Walters    

6th Edition
Softcover; 832 pages
ISBN 0534584411  
Wadsworth Publishing
Copyright 2003
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7th Edition
Softcover; 850 pages
ISBN 0495006734
978-0495006732  
Wadsworth Publishing
September 2007
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This anthology represents all of the most important points of view on the most pressing topics in bioethics. Each of these issues covers different topics and includes unique contributions.

About the 6th Edition: Containing current essays and actual medical and legal cases written by outstanding scholars from around the globe, this book provides readers with diverse range of standpoints, including those of medical researchers and practitioners, legal exerts, and philosophers. New to this sixth edition:

  • New topics include human embryonic stem cell research and bioterrorism.
  • New essays provide the most current coverage of the Human Genome Project, Genetic Testing and Screening, Genetic Enhancement, and Human Gene Transfer Research.
  • Chapter 1, "Ethical Theory and Bioethics" has been revised to be more current with respect to contemporary ethical theory and debates about method in bioethics.
  • Considerable expansion and upgrading of materials on managed care and rationing.
  • Updated articles on the end of life and physician involvement in it.
  • Significant enhancement of the discussion of maternal-fetal relations.
  • Updated treatment of codes of ethics.
  • Additional coverage of animal research and animal welfare.
  • Chapters 2-5 have been reordered, with a keen sensitivity to the transitions between and within the chapters.
  • Biographical information about the authors of selections has been added.
  • The bibliographies have been carefully and comprehensively updated.
  • Most introductions have been substantially revised.
  • InfoTrac College Edition is automatically bundled FREE with every new copy of this text! InfoTrac College Edition is a world-class, online university library that offers the full text of articles from almost 4000 scholarly and popular publications-updated daily and going back as much as 22 years. Both adopters and their students receive unlimited access for four months.

About the 7th Edition: Contemporary Issues in Bioethics presents a breadth of issues and balanced coverage of the most important topics in bioethics, including human reproduction, euthanasia and assisted suicide, genetics, the right to health care, organ transplantation, human and animal research, and planning for threats to public health. With a diverse range of classic and contemporary essays written by scholars in bioethics and judges in landmark legal cases, this anthology will help you understand issues from a variety of perspectives.

Table of Contents

  Preface  
Pt. I Introduction to Ethics 1
Ch. 1 Ethical Theory and Bioethics 1
  Fundamental Problems 1
  Types of Ethical Theory 12
  Ethical Principles 21
  Law and Policy 28
Pt. II Justice and Autonomy in Health Care 39
Ch. 2 Justice in Access to Health Care 39
  "Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does It Encompass?" 46
  "Justice, the Basic Social Contract, and Health Care" 53
  "The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care" 59
  "Rights to Health Care, Social Justice, and Fairness in Health Care Allocations" 64
  "Securing Health or Just Health Care? The Effect of the Health Care System on the Health of America" 72
  "Managed Care: How Economic Incentive Reforms Went Wrong" 79
  "Managed Care: Rationing without Justice, But Not Unjustly" 83
  "'Rationing' Health Care: Not All Definitions Are Created Equal" 90
  "Rationing Fairly: Programmatic Considerations" 95
  "Just Caring: Oregon, Health Care Rationing, and Informed Democratic Deliberation" 100
Ch. 3 Autonomy Rights and Medical Information 109
  "Confidentiality in Medicine - A Decrepit Concept" 116
  Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California 119
  "AIDS, Confidentiality, and The Right to Know" 124
  "Telling the Truth to Patients: A Clinical Ethics Exploration" 128
  "Disclosure of a Diagnosis to Children and Adolescents When Parents Object" 133
  Canterbury v. Spence 139
  "Physicians and Patients: A History of Silence" 141
  "The Concept of Informed Consent" 145
  "Informed Consent: Some Challenges to the Universal Validity of the Western Model" 150
  Bouvia v. Superior Court 156
  Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health 159
  "Advance Care Planning as a Process: Structuring the Discussions in Practice" 164
  "Advance Directives: The Next Generation" 171
Pt. III Life and Death 179
Ch. 4 End-of-Life Decisionmaking 179
  "A Right to Choose Death?" 186
  "Is There a Right to Die?" 191
  The Oregon Death with Dignity Act 201
  Vacco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksberg 207
  Wendland v. Wendland 212
  "Voluntary Active Euthanasia" 216
  "Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Tragic View" 225
  "Voluntary Euthanasia under Control? Further Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands" 235
  "Slippery Slopes in Flat Countries - A Response" 241
  "An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide" 244
  "A Comparison of Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, Terminal Sedation, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and Voluntary Active Euthanasia" 252
Ch. 5 Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Relations 263
  "Why Abortion is Immoral" 270
  "A Defense of Abortion" 278
  "The Morality of Abortion" 288
  "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" 298
  Roe v. Wade 308
  Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey, et al., etc 312
  Carhart v. Stenberg 318
  Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc 322
  In Re A.C. 324
  "Punishing Mothers" 330
  "Moral and Social Issues Regarding Pregnant Women Who Use and Abuse Drugs" 334
Pt. IV Biomedical Research and Technology 345
Ch. 6 Research Involving Human and Animal Subjects 345
  "The Nuremberg Code" 354
  "Declaration of Helsinki" and "Note of Clarification" 355
  "International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects" 358
  "International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals" 363
  "Research Ethics: International Perspectives" 365
  "Protecting Research Participants - A Time for Change" 371
  "The Ethics of Placebo-Controlled Trials - A Middle Ground" 379
  "Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials in Developing Countries" 385
  "Justice and Medical Research: A Global Perspective" 390
  "The Tuskegee Study" 394
  "In Apology for the Study Done in Tuskegee" 402
  "Factories of Death" 404
  "Final Report" 413
  "The Ethics of Animal Research: What Are the Prospects for Agreement?" 418
  "Defending Animal Research: An International Perspective" 426
  "Formulation of Ethical Standards for the Use of Animals in Medical Research" 437
  "Animal Research: The Need for a Middle Ground" 442
Ch. 7 Eugenics and Human Genetics 451
  "Eugenics and Human Rights" 457
  Buck v. Bell 460
  "Carrie Buck's Daughter" 462
  "Eugenics: Some Lessons from the Nazi Experience" 467
  "Implications of the Human Genome Project for Medical Science" 473
  "Genes and Politics" 479
  "From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice" 485
  "The Human Genome and Our View of Ourselves" 496
  "Protecting Genetic Privacy" 500
  "Beyond Consent: Ethical and Social Issues in Genetic Testing" 507
  "Ethical Issues in Genetic Testing of Children" 513
  "Principles for Human Gene Therapy Studies" 522
  "Gene Therapy: Trials and Tribulations" 526
  "Harm, Ethics Committees and the Gene Therapy Death" 531
  "Questions about Some Uses of Genetic Engineering" 534
  "Genetic Enhancement in Humans" 544
  "The Goodness of Fragility: On the Prospect of Genetic Technologies Aimed at the Enhancement of Human Capabilities" 548
Ch. 8 Reproductive Technologies and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research 563
  "IVF, Infertility, and the Status of Embryos" 569
  "Feminist Ethics and In Vitro Fertilization" 580
  "ART into Science: Regulation of Fertility Techniques" 589
  "Cloning Human Beings: An Assessment of the Ethical Issues Pro and Con" 593
  "The Wisdom of Repugnance" 603
  National Bioethics Advisory Commission 618
  "Human Reproductive Cloning: A Look at the Arguments Against It and a Rejection of Most of Them" 621
  "Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning" 633
  "Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research" 636
  "The Ethics and Politics of Small Sacrifices in Stem Cell Research" 646
  "The Point of a Ban: Or, How to Think about Stem Cell Research" 649
  "Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine" 656
  "Using Nuclear Transplantation to Produce Embryonic Stem Cells" 658
Pt. V Public Health 665
Ch. 9 The Global AIDS Epidemic and the Threat of Bioterrorism 665
  "The AIDS Epidemic: Considerations for the 21st Century" 671
  "AIDS Epidemic Update" 677
  "Reducing Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in Poor Countries" 685
  "HIV Infection and AIDS in the Public Health and Health Care Systems" 691
  "AIDS and Global Justice" 700
  "We All Have AIDS" 702
  "Africa in the 21st Century: Can Despair Be Turned to Hope?" 704
  "Is There an Ethics of Heterosexual AIDS?" 708
  "Ignorance Is Bliss? HIV and Moral Duties and Legal Duties to Forewarn" 716
  "Women Living with HIV: Disclosure, Violence, and Social Support" 724
  "Reducing the Odds: Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV in the United States" 731
  "Ethical Issues in Early Detection of HIV Infection to Reduce Vertical Transmission" 734
  "Early Detection of HIV: Assessing the Legislative Context" 742
  "Ethical Issues in International HIV Vaccine Trials" 750
  "The Search for an HIV Vaccine" 757
  "The Looming Threat of Bioterrorism" 761
  "Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism" 768
  "Large-Scale Quarantine Following Biological Terrorism in the United States: Scientific Examination, Logistic and Legal Limits, and Possible Consequences" 775
  "Law and Ethics in a Public Health Emergency" 784
  "Bioterrorism, Public Health, and Civil Liberties" 788

Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He was born in Austin, Texas. He received graduate degrees from Yale University and The Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and in the mid-70s accepted a joint appointment at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 1976, he joined the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he wrote the bulk of The Belmont Report (1978). Dr. Beauchamp's research interests are in Hume and the history of modern philosophy and practical ethics, especially biomedical ethics and business ethics.

LeRoy Walters was born in Illinois and spent his elementary and secondary school years in Pennsylvania. He attended a small Pennsylvania liberal-arts college, Messiah College, receiving his B.A. in 1962. After finishing a B.D. degree at the Associated Mennonite Seminaries in 1965, Dr. Walters studied for two years in Germany, one year at the University of Heidelberg and one year at the Free University of Berlin. In 1967 Walters returned to the United States and began a Ph.D. program in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He finished his Ph.D. in Christian ethics in the spring of 1971. During the summer of 1971, Walters joined the newly-established Kennedy Institute of Ethics as the first faculty member appointed to a multi-year term. He has remained a member of the Kennedy Institute since 1971. In 1975, Dr. Walters received an appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1980 and the rank of Professor in 1993. In the latter year he was also named the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute. During the summer of 1996 Dr. Walters accepted a three-year term as Director of the Kennedy Institute.

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