Bioethics

Acknowledgments.
Introduction.

Part I Before Birth.

Introduction.

Abortion.

1 Abortion and Health Care Ethics.

John Finnis.

2 Abortion and Infanticide.

Michael Tooley.

3 A Defense of Abortion.

Judith Jarvis Thomson .

4 Why Abortion is Immoral.

Don Marquis .

Mother-Fetus Conflict .

5 Are Pregnant Women Fetal Containers?.

Laura M. Purdy.

Part II Issues in Reproduction.

Introduction.

Assisted Reproduction .

6 The McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice?.

Gregory E. Pence .

7 Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment?.

Laura M. Purdy.

8 A Response to Purdy.

Susan Dodds and Karen Jones .

9 The Right to Lesbian Parenthood.

Gillian Hanscombe .

10 Rights, Interests and Possible People.

Derek Parfit.

Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection and Cloning.

11 Can Having Children be Immoral?.

Laura Purdy .

12 Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy.

Adrienne Asch.

13 Genetic Technology: A Threat to Deafness.

Ruth Chadwick and Mairi Levitt.

14 Sex Selection: The Case For.

Julian Savulescu .

15 Conception to Obtain Hematopoietic Cells.

John A. Robertson, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and John E. Wagner.

16 Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors.

David King .

17 The Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans.

Michael Tooley.

Part III The New Genetics Introduction .

Gene Therapy and Eugenics.

18 Questions About Some Uses of Genetic Engineering.

Jonathan Glover .

19 Ethical Issues in Manipulating the Human Germ Line.

Mark Lappe .

20 The Moral Significance of the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction in Human Genetics.

David B. Resnik .

21 Should we Undertake Genetic Research on Intelligence?.

Ainsley Newson & Robert Williamson.

Genetic Screening and Counselling.

22 Lessons from a Dark and Distant Past.

Benno Mueller-Hill .

23 Patient Autonomy & Value Neutrality

Helga Kuhse , former Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne, is now Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre. She is author and co-author of several books including Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics (Blackwell 1996), Willing to Listen - Wanting to Die (1995), Individuals, Humans and Persons: Questions of Life and Death (with Peter Singer, 1994). She is the co-founder of the Blackwell journal Bioethics and is co-editor of the accompanying volume A Companion to Bioethics (Blackwell 1999).

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author of Animal Liberation , first published in 1975, and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement. His Practical Ethics is one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death received the 1995 Australian National Book Council's Banjo Award for nonfiction. He was the foundation president of the International Association of Bioethics.

"The field of bioethics continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. One could hardly ask for a more thorough guide to where it has been, and what values and principles might steer where it is going, than this comprehensive and balanced volume." Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania

"This is an outstanding, up-to-date collection which covers all the main issues in bioethics and brings together much of the best philosophical work on them." Dan W. Brock, Harvard Medical School

"A useful tool to gain an overview of important an influential texts and thinking of leading authors and commentators in bioethics." Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics