Is there an ethicist in the house? : on the cutting edge of bioethics / Jonathan D. Moreno.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005], ©2005.

xvii, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

Is there an ethicist in the house? -- Call me doctor? Confessions of a hospital philosopher -- Arguing euthanasia -- Bioethics is a naturalism -- Ethics consultation as moral engagement -- Ethics by committee: the moral authority of consensus -- Goodbye to all that: the end of moderate protectionism in human subjects research -- Convenient and captive populations -- Regulation of research in the decisionally impaired -- "The only feasible means": the Pentagon's ambivalent relationship with the Nuremberg code -- Reassessing the influence of the Nuremberg code on American medical ethics -- Cancer, truth, and genetics -- Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society -- Bioethics after the terror -- Another impossible profession.

Includes bibliographical references and index.