Introduction xi
Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer
Part I: Doing Bioethics 1
1. A Report from America When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip 3
James Rachels
2. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below 9
Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos
3. What Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations 33
Erica Hajmes
4. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity 58
Nick Bostrom
Part II: Healthcare Professional-Patient Relationship 71
5. Patients' Responsibilities in Medical Ethics 73
Heather Draper and Tom Sorell
6. Clinical Ethics and Nursing: 'Yes' to Caring, But 'No' to a Female Ethics of Care 91
Helga Kuhse
7. Psychiatric Ethics 104
Jennifer Radden
8. Female Genital Mutilation and Cosmetic Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification 119
Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson
Part III: Just Health Care 143
9. Patents and Access to Drugs in Developing Countries: An Ethical Analysis 145
Sigrid Sterckx
10. Justice and Equal Opportunities in Health Care 162
John Harris
11. Constraints and Heroes 175
Carl Elliott
Part IV: Public Health Ethics 187
12. The Genesis of Public Health Ethics 189
Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild
13. Ethics and Infectious Disease 209
Michael J. Selgelid
14. Vaccination and the Prevention Problem 226
Angus Dawson
Part V: Research Ethics 241
15. International Research Ethics 243
Udo Schüklenk and Richard Ashcroft
16. Equipoise and International Human-Subjects Research 258
Alex John London
17. Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma 279
David B. Resnik
18. Some Questions about the Moral Responsibilities of Drug Companies in Developing Countries 301
Dan W. Brock
19. Social Responsibility and Global Pharmaceutical Companies 306
Norman Daniels
Part VI: Genetics 311
20. Do Human Cells Have Rights? 313
Mary Warnock
21. Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy 328
Søren Holm
22. Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome 342
Nicholas Agar
23. The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms - the Case of Wrongful Handicaps358
Dan W. Brock
24. Coding and Consent: Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland 365
Vilhjálmur Árnason
Part VII: Beginning of Life Issues 387
25. Is It Good to Make Happy People? 389
Stuart Rachels
26. Genes, Embryos, and Future People 408
Walter Glannon
27. Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children 434
Julian Savulescu
28. The Problem of Abortion: Essentially Contested Concepts and Moral Autonomy 447
Susanne Gibson
29. The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood 459
Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens
30. The Limits of Conscientious Objection to Abortion in the Developing World 477
Louis-Jacques van Bogaert
31. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment? 490
Laura M. Purdy
Part VIII: End of Life 509
32. The Metaphysics of Brain Death 511
Jeff McMahan
33. Advance Directives, Autonomy and Unintended Death 551
Jim Stone
34. End of Life Care in HIV-Infected Children Who Died in Hospital 576
Lesley D. Henley
Index 592
