The ethics of bioethics
Subtitle: mapping the moral landscape
By: edited by Lisa A. Eckenwiler and Felicia G. Cohn.
Contributors: Eckenwiler, Lisa A., 1967-; Cohn, Felicia.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801886096; 9780801886126
Subjects: Medical ethics; Bioethics; Professional ethics; Bioethics; Ethics, Professional; Politics
Description: Stem cell research, drug company influence, abortion, contraception, long-term and end-of-life care, human participants research, informed consent. These are just some of the list of ethical issues in science, medicine, and public health that is long and continually growing. These complex issues pose a daunting task for professionals in the expanding field of bioethics. But what of the practice of bioethics itself? What issues do ethicists and bioethicists confront in their efforts to facilitate sound moral reasoning and judgment in a variety of venues? Are those immersed in the field capable of making the right decisions? How and why do they face moral challenge -- and even compromise -- as ethicists? What values should guide them? In this book, the authors tackle these questions head on, bringing together notable medical ethicists and people outside the discipline to discuss common criticisms, the field's inherent tensions, and efforts to assign values and assess success. Through twenty-five essays examining the field's history and trends, shortcomings and strengths, and the political and policy interplay within the bioethical realm, this book begins a much-needed critical and constructive discussion of the moral landscape of bioethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Analyzing pandora's box : the history of bioethics / Carol Levine; title: A history of codes of ethics for bioethicists / Robert Baker; title: The tyranny of expertise / Carl Elliott; title: Trusting bioethicists / James Lindemann Nelson; title: Intellectual capital and voting booth bioethics : a contemporary historical critique / M.L. Tina Stevens; title: Bioethics and society : from the ivory tower to the state house / David Orentlicher; title: Democratic ideals and bioethics commissions : the problem of expertise in an egalitarian society / Mark G. Kuczewski; title: The endarkenment / R. Alta Charo; title: Left bias in academic bioethics : three dogmas / Griffin Trotter; title: Bioethics as politics : a critical reassessment / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr; title: ASBH and moral tolerance / Mary Faith Marshall; title: Bioethics as activism / Lisa S. Parker; title: Ethics on the inside? / Debra A. Debruin; title: Strategic disclosure requirements and the ethics of bioethics / Virginia A. Sharpe; title: Ties without tethers : bioethics corporate relations in the AbioCor artificial heart trial / E. Haavi Morreim; title: Of courage, honor, and integrity / Françoise Baylis; title: I want you : notes toward a theory of hospitality / Laurie Zoloth; title: Learning to listen : second-order moral perception and the work of bioethics / Judith Andre; title: Global health inequalities and bioethics / Leigh Turner; title: White normativity in U.S. bioethics : a call and method for more pluralist and democratic standards and policies / Catherine Myser; title: Mentoring in bioethics : possibilities and problems / James F. Childress; title: Obligations to fellow and future bioethicists : publication / Hilde Lindemann; title: The virtue of attacking the bioethicist / Tod Chambers; title: Social moral epistemology and the role of bioethicists / Allen Buchanan; title: The glass house : assessing bioethics / Nancy M. P. King.