Bioethical Responsibilities in Twenty-First Century Crises argues for an expanded role and scope for the field of bioethics to tackle the pressing challenges confronting health and healthcare now and on the horizon. The diverse chapters in this collection, edited by Elizabeth Lanphier and Larry R. Churchill, address the need for new bioethical methods, attention to overlooked difference, responding to climate change, and charting new identities for and within bioethics. Taken as a whole, this volume shows how bioethics, with its core commitment to justice, needs to update its tools and attention to realize justice in the twenty-first century. This includes better understanding of and responding to the ways that structural inequities and intersectional oppression impact not only individual medical care and healthcare access, health policy, or research priorities and participation, but also individual and community contributions to and vulnerability from climate change, and the impact social and political choices have on health and well-being.
Edited by:
Elizabeth Lanphier,
Larry R. Churchill
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781666959383
ISBN 10: 1666959383
Series: Revolutionary Bioethics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 22 January 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Editors’ Introduction – Elizabeth Lanphier and Larry R. Churchill Bringing Current Practice into the Future 1. Bioethicists in the Current Climate: Attending to Identify-Forming Feeling and Knowledge Production – Lisa S. Parker 2. The Wary Relationship Between Bioethics and Public Engagement – Gregory E. Kaebnick 3. Dialogue as the Medium and Goal of Bioethics – Arthur W. Frank 4. The Future of Bioethics, Reconsidered – Howard A. Brody Witnessing Difference and Responding to Vulnerability 5. Othering, Recognition, and Health Justice – Nancy M. P. King 6. Bioethics and Incarceration – Takunda Matose and Elizabeth Lanphier 7. Toward a Phenomenology of Aging: Implications for Bioethics – Larry R. Churchill and David Schenck 8. What is Past is Prologue: Searching for Social Justice Advocacy in Bioethics – Virginia A. Brown Bioethics Response to Global Warming 9. Bioethics for a World on Fire – Travis N. Rieder 10. The Early Ethics of Planetary Health – Stephen M. Gardiner and Paul Tubig 11. Can Ethical Input into Policy Enhance Environmental Sustainability? – Cheryl C. Macpherson and Katharine Wright 12. The Necessity of Fusing Bioethics and Geoethics: An Ecointersectional Approach – Nancy Tuana New Tools and Visions for Bioethics 13. The Science and Skill of Facing Change: Implications for Bioethicists – Marion Danis and Hollen N. Reischer 14. Probing the Social Determinants of Health: Where Bioethics is Heading – Gail E. Henderson 15. The Citational Tyranny of Bioethics – Johnathan Flowers 16. Visionary Bioethics: A Biopolitical Approach to Bioethical Inquiry – Leah Lomotey-Nakon About the Contributors
Elizabeth Lanphier is assistant professor in the Ethics Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA. Larry R. Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics Emeritus, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
