Foreword by Raanan E. Gillon – Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

Foreword by Tony Hope - Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford

Preface

Part I: Methodology and Perspectives

            Introduction

            John R. McMillan

1          The ‘Four Principles’ Approach to Health Care Ethics

            Tom L. Beauchamp

2            Theories of Autonomy

            Natalie Stoljar

3            Beneficence

            Garrett Cullity

4            Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill Health

            Thomas W. Pogge

5            Liberalism and Communitarianism

            Colin Tyler

6          How Many Principles for Bioethics?

            Robert M. Veatch

7            Casuistical Reasoning in Medical Ethics

            Albert R. Jonsen

8            Utilitarianism and Bioethics

            Matti Häyry

9            Deontology

            David A. McNaughton and J. Piers Rawling

10            Kantian Ethics

            Onora O'Neill

11            Feminist Approaches to Health Care Ethics

            Susan Sherwin

12         Virtue Theory

            Justin Oakley

13         Moral Relativism

            Mark Sheehan

14            Christian Approaches to Bioethics

            Heather Widdows

15            Judaism and Medicine: Jewish Medical Ethics

            Fred Rosner

16         The Search for Islamic Bioethics Principles

              Abdulaziz Sachedina

17            Buddhist Bioethics

            James Hughes

18         South Asian Approaches to Health Care Ethics

            Harold Coward

19         The Specious Idea of an Asian Bioethics:

            Beyond Dichotomizing East and West

            Jing-Bao Nie

20            Narrative Ethics

            Howard Brody

21            Empirical Approaches to Health Care Ethics

            Jeremy Sugarman, Robert A. Pearlman and Holly A. Taylor

22            Medical Sociology and the Redundancy of Empirical Ethics

            Adam Hedgecoe

23         The Use of Thought Experiments in Health Care Ethics

            Adrian Walsh

24            Deliberative Bioethics

            Michael Parker

25         Law, Ethics and Health Care

            Sheila A.M. McLean

26            Medical Humanities: An Overview

            Martyn Evans

27            Reflective Equilibrium as a Method in Health Care Ethics

            Theo van Willigenburg

28            Hermeneutic Ethics between Practice and Theory

            Guy A.M. Widdershoven and Tineke A. Abma

29            Paternalism in Health Care and Health Policy

            James F. Childress

30         Need: An Instrumental View

            Anthony J. Culyer

31         Rights

            James G.S. Wilson

32            Exploitation in Health Care

            Alan Wertheimer

33            Competence to Consent

            Monique F. Jonas

34         The Doctrine of Double Effect

            Suzanne Uniacke

35            Ordinary and Extraordinary Means

            Stephen D. John

36         Acts and Omissions

            Tuija Takala

37            Personhood and Moral Status

            Ainsley J. Newson

38            Commodification

            Stephen Wilkinson

Part II: Issues in Health Care Practice

            Introduction

            Heather Draper

39            Consent and Informed Consent

            Neil C. Manson

40            Treatment Decisions for Incapacitated Patients

            Rebecca S. Dresser

41            Children's Consent to Medical Treatment

            David W. Archard

42            Patients and Disclosure of Surgical Risk

            Justin Oakley

43            Confidentiality

            Rebecca Bennett

44         Truth-telling, Lying and the Doctor–Patient Relationship

            Roger Higgs

45            Personal Beliefs and Patient Care

            Jennifer Jackson

46            Conscience and Health Care Ethics

            Piers Benn

47         Care in Families

            Hilde Lindemann

48         The Ethics of Primary Health Care

            Annettee J. Braunack-Mayer

49         The Nurse–Patient Relationship: A ‘Principles plus Care’ Account

            Steven D. Edwards

50         Dual Responsibilities: Do They Raise Any Different Ethical Issues

            than "Normal"             Therapeutic Relationships?

            Ann Sommerville and Veronica English

51         Violent and Abusive Patients: An Ethically Informed Response

            Graham M. Behr, J.S. Emmanuel and J. P. Ruddock

52         The Moral Significance of the Human Foetus

            Norman Ford

53         Will We Need Abortion in Utopia?

            Adrienne Asch

54            Maternal–Foetal Conflict

            Rosamund Scott

55         Limits to Reproductive Liberty

            Thomas H. Murray

56            Disability without Denial

            Tom Sorell

57            Disability and Equality: Should Difference Be Welcomed?

            Tom Shakespeare

58            Genetic Counselling

            Angus Clarke

59         Ethics and Psychotherapy: An Issue of Trust

            Tim Bond

60         Mental Illness and Compulsory Treatment

            John R. McMillan

61            Personality Disorders and Compulsory Detention

            Matt Matravers

62         Labia Mea, Domine: Media, Morality and Eating Disorders

            Simona Giordano

63            Intellectual Disability

            Pekka Louhiala

64         Ethical Issues and Health Care for Older People

            Julian C. Hughes

65         Organs and Tissues for Transplantation and Research

            David P.T. Price

66         Living Donor Organ Transplantation

            Timothy M. Wilkinson

67            Euthanasia and Principled Health Care Ethics: From Conflict

            to Compromise?

            Richard Huxtable

68            Understanding and Misunderstanding Death

            David Lamb

69         Ethics without Boundaries: Medical Tourism

            Guido Pennings

70         Ethics of Performance Enhancement in Sport: Drugs and Gene Doping

            Bennett Foddy and Julian Savulescu

71            Training Good Professionals: Ethics and Health Care Education

            Nafsika Athanassoulis

72         Ethics Consultations and Ethics Committees

            Anne Slowther

Part III: Medicine in Society

            Introduction

            Angus Dawson

73         The Concepts of Health and Illness

            Lennart Y. Nordenfelt

74            Community in Public Health Ethics

            Bruce Jennings

75         Health Promotion, Society and Health Care Ethics

            Alan Cribb

76            Preventing Disease

            Marcel Verweij

77            Quantitative Methods for Priority-Setting in Health: Ethical Issues

            Daniel Wikler, Dan W. Brock, Sarah Marchand, and Tessa Tan Torres

78            Economics, Political Philosophy and Ethics: The Role of Public

            Preferences in             Health Care Decision Making

            Jeff Richardson and John McKie

79            Decision Analysis: the Ethical Approach to Most Health Decision Making

            Jack Dowie

80         Health Inequities and the Social Determinants of Health

            Wendy Rogers

81            Organizational Ethics in Health Care

            Jacob E. Kurlander and Marion Danis

82         Ethical Issues in Epidemiology

            Steven S. Coughlin

83            Screening: Ethical Aspects

            Niklas Juth and Christian Munthe

84            Vaccination Ethics

            Angus Dawson

85         The Patient as Victim and Vector: Bioethics and the Challenge

            of Infectious Disease

Margaret P. Battin, Linda S. Carr-Lee, Leslie P. Francis,

Jay A. Jacobson, and Charles B. Smith

86            Bioterrorism, Society and Health Care Ethics

            Michael J. Selgelid

87         Drug Addiction, Society and Ethics

            Wayne Hall and Adrian Carter

88            Smoking: Is Acceptance of the Risks Fully Voluntary?

            Robert E. Goodin

89         Doctors and Human Rights

            Doris Schroeder

90         Duties to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Host Countries’

            Medical Systems

            Pascale Allotey, Hilary Pickles and Vanessa Johnston

91            Medical Aid in Disaster Relief

            Søren Holm

Part IV: Research Ethics and Ethics of New Technologies

            Introduction

            Richard E. Ashcroft

92         The Ethics and Governance of Medical Research

            Richard E. Ashcroft

93         The Ethics of Animal Research

            David DeGrazia

94         The Ethical Requirement for Systematic Reviews for Randomized Trials

            Mike Clarke

95            Informed Consent for Research

            James Flory, David Wendler and Ezekiel Emanuel

96            Evaluating Benefits and Harms in Clinical Research

            Paul B. Miller and Charles Weijer

97            Patients’ Obligations?

            Simon Woods

98            Standard of Care Owed to Participants in Clinical Trials: Different

            Standards in Different Countries?

            Reidar K. Lie

99         Justice and Priority Setting in International Health Care Research

            Solomon R. Benatar

100            Obligations of the Pharmaceutical Industry

            Udo Schuklenk and Jim Gallagher

101       Ethics and Medical Publishing

            Richard Smith and Iain Chalmers

102       Human Reproductive Cloning

            D. Gareth Jones and Kerry A. Galvin

103            Obtaining Human Eggs for Stem Cell Research: Ethical Issues

            Heather Draper

104       The Ethics of Xenotransplantation

            Jonathan Hughes

105            Pharmacogenomics

            Ruth Chadwick

106       Ethical Issues in Human Gene Transfer: A Historical Overview

            Eric T. Juengst and Hannah Grankvist

107       The Ethics of Ageing, Genetics and Immortality

            Daniela Cutaş and John Harris         

108       Ethical Issues of Enhancement Technologies

            Ruud H.J. ter Meulen, Lisbeth Nielsen and Laurens Landeweerd

109            Psychosurgery and Neuroimplantation: Changing What is Deep

            Within a Person

            Grant Gillett

110            Resisting Addiction: Novel Application of Vaccines

            Andreas Hasman

Index