This bioethics handbook offers concise, up-to-date, and easy to read chapters on a broad range of bioethical topics in the following categories: foundational concepts, theory and method, healthcare ethics, research ethics, public health, technology, and the environment.
The volume provides a snapshot of current bioethics, taking into account current affairs and emerging new topics. Each chapter acknowledges and critically breaks down the historical developments of the subject and the most authoritative existing literature on respective topics, providing accessible and up-to-date philosophical analysis. As such, the chapters are designed to be attractive as primary or supplementary teaching material for university classes of the philosophical or bioethical variety, with clear demarcations and indicators for key terms, ideas, and arguments that should also facilitate productive note-taking and points for critical discussion for students. The handbook also serves as a one-stop starting resource for multi- and interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners who engage with bioethics in their work.
Introduction: Bioethics for the 22nd Century – Isaac A Wagner, Ji-Young Lee & Ezio Di Nucci Part 1 – Concepts and Principles Section I: Foundations & Methods in Bioethics 1. Moral Status – Ezio Di Nucci 2. Health, Disease and Wellbeing – S Engelsen, S Harnow Klausen & R Christiansen 3. Bioethical Principles – Nana Cecilie Halmsted Kongsholm 4. Neurodiversity – Kenneth Shields Section II: Decision-making in Healthcare 5. Substituted Decision-making – Anna-Karin Margareta Andersson 6. Autonomy and Responsibility – Lisa Dive 7. Paternalism – Jason Hanna 8. Conscientious Objection in Health Care – Udo Schuklenk Section III: Discrimination in Bioethics 9. Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare – Ji-Young Lee 10. Bias in Medicine – Mayli Mertens 11. Race and Gender in Research – Christopher ChoGlueck & Elisabeth A Lloyd Section IV: The Politics of Healthcare 12. Priority Setting in Health Care – Eric Roark 13. Health Care Rights – Richard Lauer 14. Vulnerability – Costanza Porro 15. Nudging in Public Health – Paul Hamilton Part 2 – Applications and Trends Section V: Medical Case Studies 16. Organ Markets – Andreas Albertsen 17. Physician-Assisted Death – Iain Brassington 18. Interpretation and Medical Technologies – Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis 19. Disability – Melinda C Hall Section VI: Epidemics and Pandemics 20. Responsible Pain Medicine – TN Rieder, D Manoharan & VV Altiery De Jesus 21. Pandemic Ethics – Anne Lykkeskov 22. Vaccination Ethics – Stephen John Section VII: Reproduction 23. The Ethics of Parenthood – Teresa Baron 24. Reproductive Technologies for Queer and Trans People – Doris Leibetseder 25. Population Governance – Karin Kuhlemann 26. The Ethics of Circumcision – Brian Earp Section VIII: Biotechnology and Society 27. Data Ethics – Aaro Tupasela 28. AI in Medical Practice – Karin Jongsma & Martin Sand 29. Performance Enhancing Drugs – Thomas Søbirk Petersen 30. Medical Instagram in Russia – Yulia Karpova & Pavel Vasilyev Section IX: Beyond Bioethics? 31. Neuroethics – Mary Jean Walker 32. Nursing Ethics – Ann Gallagher 33. Climate Change – Trevor Hedberg 34. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation – Adam Shriver
Ezio Di Nucci is professor of bioethics and director of the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Ji-Young Lee is postdoctoral researcher in bioethics in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. She works on the Velux-funded Future of Family Relationships project, which explores the future of family structures and ties in light of advances in reproductive technologies. Isaac A. Wagner is teaching associate professor of bioethics in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen.
Reviews for The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics
The first formal use of the term bioethics to distinguish the ethical relationships between humans and other living organisms is attributed to Fritz Jahr in 1927. Rapid growth in biomedical discoveries and medical treatments since then greatly increased the complexity and scope of bioethics. This book edited by Di Nucci, Lee, and Wagner thoroughly examines past and contemporary bioethics assumptions and applications. Each chapter is authored by an unbiased expert on a particular set of viewpoints and situations. Much of the ethics coverage focuses on medical ethics, health care, and human subject research, but the book concludes with chapters on bioethics in the context of environmental sciences and animal experimentation. Chapters include ample citations. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. Students in two-year technical programs. * Choice Reviews *
