Bioethics / edited by Justin Oakley, Monash University, Australia.

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2009]

xxvi, 559 pages ; 25 cm.

Autonomy and the refusal of lifesaving treatment / Bruce L. Miller -- Value theory and the best interests standard / David Degrazia -- Paternalism and partial autonomy / Onora O'Neill -- Informed consent and surgeons' performance / Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley -- Models for ethical medicine in a revolutionary age / Robert M. Veatch -- What about the family / John Hardwig -- Dworkin on dementia : elegant theory, questionable policy / Rebecca Dresser -- Why saying no to patients in the United States is so hard : cost containment, justice, and provider autonomy / Norman Daniels -- Indicators of humanhood : a tentative profile of man / Joseph Fletcher -- Arguing from potential / Stephen Buckle -- Why potentiality matters / Jim Stone -- Virtue theory and abortion / Rosalind Hursthouse -- Going to the roots of the stem cell controversy / Søren Holm -- Goodbye to Dolly? The ethics of human cloning / John Harris -- Genetic dilemmas and the child's right to an open future / Dena S. Davis -- Procreative beneficence : why we should select the best children / Julian Savulescu -- The case against perfection / Michael J. Sandel -- The exploitation argument against commercial surrogacy / Stephen Wilkinson

Presidential address : is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? / Peter Singer -- A modern myth, that letting die is not the intentional causation of death : some reflections on the trial and acquittal of Dr. Leonard Arthur / Helga Kuhse -- Euthanasia : the way we do it, the way they do it / Margaret pabst Battin -- "Cuture of life" politics at the bedside : the case of Terri Schiavo / George J. Annas -- Death and the value of life / Jeff McMahan -- Reviving a distinctive medical ethic / larry R. Churchill -- Neither for love nor money : why doctors must not kill / Leon R. Kass -- Professional integrity and physician-assisted death / Frankllin G. Miller and Howard Brody -- Doing what the patient orders : maintaining integrity in the doctor-patient relationship / Jeffrey Blustein -- Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research / Benjamin Freedman -- Instituting a research ethic : chilling and cautionary tales / Philip Pettit -- Inducement in research / Martin Wilkinson and Andrew Moore -- Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries / P. Lurie and S.M. Wolfe -- Moral standards for research in developing countries : from "reasonable availability" to "fair benefits / participants in the 2001 Conference on Ethical Aspects of Rearch in Developing Countries -- Human rights and global health : a research program / Thomas W. Pogge -- Biomedical conflicts of interest : a defence of the sequestration thesis, learning from the cases of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy / A. Schafer -- Pharma buys a conscience / Carl Elliott -- Can we learn from eugenics? / Daniel Wikler -- Abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Morality and the law : some problems / Mary Warnock -- Deliberating about bioethics / Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.