Bioethics

Dr Justin Oakley is Director at the Centre for Human Bioethics, School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Australia.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Ethics in Clinical Practice: Autonomy and the refusal of lifesaving treatment, Bruce L. Miller; Value theory and the best interests standard, David Degrazia; Paternalism and partial autonomy, Onora O'Neill; Informed consent and surgeons' performance, Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley; Models for ethical medicine in a revolutionary age, Robert M. Veatch; What about the family?, John Hardwig; Dworkin on dementia: elegant theory, questionable policy, Rebecca Dresser; Why saying no to patients in the United States is so hard: cost containment, justice and provider autonomy, Norman Daniels. Part II Issues at the Outset of Life: Indicators of humanhood: a tentative profile of man, Joseph Fletcher; Arguing from potential, Stephen Buckle; Why potentiality matters, Jim Stone; Virtue theory and abortion, Rosalind Hursthouse; Going to the roots of the stem cell controversy, Søren Holm; 'Goodbye Dolly?' The ethics of human cloning, John Harris. Part III Reproductive Ethics: Genetic dilemmas and the child's right to an open future, Dena S. Davis; Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children, Julian Savulescu; The case against perfection, Michael J. Sandel; The exploitation argument against commercial surrogacy, Stephen Wilkinson. Part IV End-of-Life Issues: Presidential address: Is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? Peter Singer; A modern myth: that letting die is not the intentional causation of death: some reflections on the trial and acquittal of Dr Leonard Arthur, Helga Kuhse; Euthanasia: the way we do it, they way they do it, Margaret Pabst Battin; 'Culture of life' politics at the bedside - the case of Terri Schiavo, George J. Annas; Death and the value of life, Jeff McMahan. Part V Professional Integrity and the Goals of Medicine: Reviving a distinctive medical ethic, Larry R. Churchill; Neither for love nor money: why doctors must not kill, Leon R. Kass; Professional integrity and physician-assisted death, Frankli