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Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Nafsika Athanassoulis

    1. Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Nafsika Athanassoulis
    Pages 1-23

  3. Benefit, Disability and the Non-Identity Problem

    • Hallvard Lillehammer
    Pages 24-43

  4. ‘Designer Babies’, Instrumentalisation and the Child’s Right to an Open Future

    • Stephen Wilkinson
    Pages 44-69

  5. Why There is No Right to Know One’s Genetic Origins

    • Heather Draper
    Pages 70-87

  6. Compromise and Moral Complicity in the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate

    • Katrien Devolder, John Harris
    Pages 88-108

  7. Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering

    • David S. Oderberg
    Pages 109-134

  8. Autonomy, Inducements and Organ Sales

    • James Stacey Taylor
    Pages 135-159

  9. The Role of Conscience in Medical Ethics

    • Piers Benn
    Pages 160-179

  10. The Treatment That Leaves Something to Luck

    • Nafsika Athanassoulis
    Pages 180-197

  11. Passive Death

    • Ray Frey
    Pages 198-207

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 208-210
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About this book

This book provides a collection of original essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics research. Leading philosophers give in-depth accounts of issues as diverse as embryo pre-selection, the role of autonomy in organ transplant markets, conscientious objection in the health care professions and neonatal euthanasia. Provocative and original, the contributions to this volume will be of interest to academic, students and health care professionals alike.

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'...essential reading for anyone interested in the vast range of complex ethical, social and legal issues at the center of contemporary medical ethics.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, UK

    Nafsika Athanassoulis

About the editor

PIERS BENN Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, Imperial College, UK KATRIEN DEVOLDER is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and is based at the Bioethics Institute Ghent at Ghent University, Belgium HEATHER DRAPER is Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences University of Birmingham, UK RAY FREY Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green University, USA JOHN HARRIS Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK HALLVARD LILLEHAMMER Fellow of King's College, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University, UK DAVID S. ODERBERG Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UK JAMES STACEY TAYLOR Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey USA STEPHEN WILKINSON Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy, Keele University, UK

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