Bioethics : an anthology / edited by Helga Kuhse, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer
Imprint
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2016
Edition
Third edition
Descript
xvii, 782 pages ; 25 cm
CONTENT
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 -- Multiple gestation and damaged babies : God's will or human choice? / Gregory Pence -- Assisted reproduction in same sex couples / Dorothy A. Greenfeld and Emre Seli -- Rights, interests, and possible people / Derek Parfit -- The ethics of uterus transplantation / Ruby Catsanos, Wendy Rogers, and Mianna Lotz -- 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 Mari Levitt -- Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis / The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine -- 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 -- The Moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics / David B. Resnick -- Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence? / Ainsley Newson and Robert Williamson -- In defense of posthuman dignity / Nick Bostrom -- The sanctity 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 always worse -- and sometimes better -- than letting die / Helga Kuhse -- Mortal fictions and medical ethics / Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog, and Dan W. Brock --