Bioethics and Social Reality / / edited by Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, Peter Herissone-Kelly.
This book explores the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality. Bioethics, if it is to be effective, must engage with and address the actualities of modern life: policies, regulations, markets, opinions, and technological advances. In these original contributions fifteen no...
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Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series ; 165 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2005. |
Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Value Inquiry Book Series ;
165. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by John Harris
- Preface
- Introduction Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, and Peter Herissone-Kelly: The Social Reality of Bioethics
- ONE Harry LESSER: The Case of Back-Street Abortion
- TWO Doris SCHROEDER: Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and the Duty to Die
- THREE Matti HÄYRY: Forget Autonomy and Give Me Freedom!
- FOUR Monique JONAS: Choosing Between Claims: Allocating Parental Responsibility in Surrogacy Disputes
- FIVE Tuija TAKALA: The Many Wrongs of Human Reproductive Cloning
- SIX Louise IRVING: The Problem of Intangibles
- SEVEN Eve GARRARD and Stephen WILKINSON: Mind the Gap: The Use of Empirical Evidence in Bioethics
- EIGHT Angus DAWSON: Informed Consent: Bioethical Ideal and Empirical Reality
- NINE Søren HOLM: What Empirical Bioethics Can Learn from Empirical Business Ethics
- TEN Jukka KILPI: On Corporate Ethical Responsibility, Stakeholder Value, and Strict Liability in Biotechnology
- ELEVEN Peter LUCAS: Perspectivism in Risk Management
- TWELVE Simon WOODS: Moral Progress
- THIRTEEN Mark SHEEHAN: Healthcare and (a Kind of) Virtue Ethics
- FOURTEEN Peter HERISSONE-KELLY: Bioethics, Rights-Based Consequentialism, and Social Reality
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Index.