Bioethics : an anthology / edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

Sadrži: Abortion and health care ethics / John Finnis : Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley ; A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson ; Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis ; Are pregnant women fetal containers? / Laura M. Purdy ; The McCaughey septuplets: God's will or human choice? / Gregory E. Pence ; Surrogate mothering : exploitation or empowerment? / Laura M. Purdy ; A response to Purdy / Susan Dodds and Karen Jones ; The right to lesbian parenthood / Gillian Hanscombe ; Rights, interests, and possible people / Derek Parfit ; Genetics and reproductive risk : can having children be immoral? / Laura M. Purdy ; Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion : a challenge to practice and policy / Adrienne Asch ; Genetic technology : a threat to deafness / Ruth Chadwick and Mairi Levitt ; Sex selection : the case for / Julian Savulescu ; Conception to obtain hematopoietic stem cells / John A. Robertson, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and John E. Wagner ; Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors / David King ; The moral status of the cloning of humans / Michael Tooley ; Questions about some uses of genetic engineering / Jonathan Glover ; Ethical issues in manipulating the human germ line / Marc Lappé ; The moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics / David B. Resnik ; Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence? / Ainsley Newson and Robert Williamson ; Lessons from a dark and distant past / Benno Müller-Hill ; Patient autonomy and value-neutrality in non directive genetic counselling / Robert Wachbroit and David Wasserman ; Genetic dilemmas and the child's right to an open future / Dena S. Davis ; The sancity of life / Jonathan Glover ; Declaration on euthanasia / Sacred congregation for the doctrine of the faith ; The morality of killing : a traditional view / Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, jr. ; Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels ; Is killing no worse than letting die? / Winston Nesbitt ; Why killing is not alwayse worse - and something better - than letting die / Helga Kuhse ; When care cannot cure: medical problems in seriously ill babies / Neil Campbell ; A modern myth: that letting die is not the intentional causation of death / Helga Kuhse ; The abnormal child : moral dilemmas of doctors and parents / R. M. Hare ; Right to life of handicapped / Alison Davis ; A definition of irreversible coma / Report of the ad hoc committee of the Harvard medical school to examine the definition of brain death ; Is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? / Peter Singer ; Life past reason / Ronald Dworkin ; Dworkin on dementia : elegant theory, questionable policy / Rebecca Dresser ; The note / Chris Hill ; When self.determination runs amok / Daniel Callahan ; When abstract moralizing runs amok / John Lachs ; Listening and helping to die : the Dutch way / Pieter Admiraal ; Rescuing lives : can't we count? / Paul T. Menzel ; The allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy / Nicholas Rescher ; Should alcoholics compete equally for liver transplantation? / Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler ; The value of life / John Harris ; How age should matter : justice as the basis for limiting care to the elderly / Robert M. Veatch ; Quality of life and resource allocation / Michael Lockwood ; A lifespan approach to health care / Norman Daniels ; Why give to strangers? / Richard M. Titmuss ; Organ donation and retrieval : whose body is it anyway? / Eike-Henner W. Kluge ; The case for allowing kidney sales / Janet Radcliffe-Richards, et al. ; The survival lottery / John Harris ; Ethics and clinical research / Henry K. Beecher ; Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research / Benjamin Freedman ; The patient and the public good / Samuel Hellman ; The morality of clinical research : a case study / Torbjörn Tännsjö ; Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perintal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries / Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe ; We're trying to help our sickest people, not exploit them / Danstan Bagenda and Philippa Musoke-Mudido ; Question of respect for life : what some (Australian) members of parliament have said about embryonic stem cell research in parliament this week ; Stem Cells, sex, and procreation / John Harris ; Duties towards animals / Immanuel Kant ; A utilitarian view / Jeremy Bentham ; All animals are equal / Peter Singer ; Vivisection, morals and medicine : an exchange / R. G. Frey and sir William Paton ; Confidentiality of medicine : a decrepit concept / Mark Siegler ; On a supposed right to lie from altruistic motives / Immanuel Kant ; Should doctors tell the truth? / Joseph Collins ; On telling patients the truth / Roger Higgs ; On liberty / John Stuart Mill ; From Schloendorff v. New York hospital / Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo ; Amputees by choice / Carl Elliott ; Abandoning informed consent / Robert M. Veatch ; Rational desires and the limitation of life-sustaining treatment / Julian Savulescu ; the doctor-patient relationship in different cultures / Ruth Macklin ; Ethical dilemmas for nurses : physicians' orders versus patients' rights / E. Joy Kroeger Mappes ; In defense of the traditional nurse / Lisa H. Newton ; When philosophers shoot from the hip / James Rachels ; Ethics consultation as moral engagement / Jonathan D. Moreno ; Truth or consequences : the role of philosophers in policy-making / Dan W. Brock ; Should the decisions of ethics committees be base on community values? / Heta Häyry