Public Bioethics

James F. Childress is the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the University of Virginia, where he directs the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. He was born in North Carolina, and studied at Guilford and Yale. He held the position of research chair at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown, and has been actively involved in several national committees examining bioethics and public policy. He was vice chair of the national Task Force on Organ Transplantation and served on the Board of Directors of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the UNOS Ethics Committee, and the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, among others. He was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission from 1996-2001. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the Hastings Center. He is the co-author (with Tom L. Beauchamp) of Principles of Bioethics, and hasauthored several books and numerous articles on biomedical ethics, and other topics within the field of ethics.

• Chapter 1: Respecting Personal Autonomy in Bioethics: Relational Autonomy as a Corrective?Chapter 2: Paternalism in Health Care and Health PolicyChapter 3: Narratives vs. Norms: A Misplaced Debate in BioethicsChapter 4: Religion, Bioethics, and Public Policy: Debates about SecularizationChapter 5: Religion, Morality, and Public Policy: The Controversy about Human CloningChapter 6: Conscientious Refusals in Health CareChapter 7: Difficulties of Determining Death: What Should We Do about the "Dead Donor Rule"?Chapter 8: The Failure to Give: Facilitating First-Person Deceased Organ DonationChapter 9: Putting Patients First in Organ Allocation: An Ethical Analysis of Policy Debates in the U.S.Chapter 10: Public Health Ethics: Mapping the TerrainChapter 11: Public Health and Civil Liberties: Resolving ConflictsChapter 12: Triage in a Public Health Crisis: The Case of a Bioterrorist AttackChapter 13: John Stuart Mill's Legacy for Public Health Ethics: On Liberty and Beyond