Bonnie Steinbock presents the authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics, covering 30 topics in original essays by some of the world's leading figures in the field. Anyone who wants to know how the central debates in bioethics have developed in recent years, and where the debates are going, will want to consult this book.

Bonnie Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Her specialization is biomedical ethics, particularly reproduction and genetics.

• Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues


• 1: James Childress: Methods in Bioethics


• 2: John Arras: The Way We Reason Now: Reflective Equilibrium in Bioethics


• 3: Bruce Jennings: Autonomy


• 4: Jeanette Kennett: Mental Disorder, Moral Agency, and the Self


• 5: Daniel Sulmasy: 'Reinventing' the Rule of Double Effect


• Part 2: Justice and Policy


• 6: Søren Holm: Policy-Making in Pluralistic Societies


• 7: Benjamin J. Krohmal and Ezekiel J. Emanuel: Tiers Without Tears: The Ethics of a Two-Tiered Health Care System


• 8: Dennis McKerlie: Justice and the Elderly


• Part 3: Bodies and Bodily Parts


• 9: Ronald Munson: Organ Transplantation


• 10: John Harris and Louise Irving: Biobanking


• 11: Carolyn McLeod: For Dignity or Money: Feminists on the Commodification of Women's Reproductive Labour


• Part 4: The End of Life


• 12: Stuart Youngner: The Definition of Death


• 13: Stephen Post: The Aging Society and the Expansion of Senility: Biotechnological and Treatment Goals


• 14: Felicia Nimue Ackerman: Death is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents


• 15: John K. Davis: Precedent Autonomy, Advance Directives, and End-of-Life Care


• 16: Gerald Dworkin: Physician-Assisted Death: The State of the Debate


• Part 5: Reproduction and Cloning


• 17: Don Marquis: Abortion Revisited


• 18: Bonnie Steinbock: Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos: Implications for Stem Cell Research


• 19: Andrea Bonnicksen: Therapeutic Cloning: Politics and Policy


• Part 6: Genetics and Enhancement


• 20: Eric Juengst: Population Genetic Research and Screening: Conceptual and Ethical Issues


• 21: Thomas Murray: Enhancement


• 22: Julian Savulescu: Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings


• 23: Matthew DeCamp and Allen Buchanan: Pharmacogenomics: Ethical and regulatory issues


• Part 7: Research Ethics


• 24: Alex John London: Clinical Equipoise: Foundational Requirement or Fundamental Error


• 25: Jason Karlawish: Research on Cognitively Impaired Adults


• 26: Florencia Luna: Research in Developing Countries


• 27: Alastair Norcross: Animal Experimentation


• Part 8: Public and Global Health


• 28: Jeffrey Kahn and Anna Mastroianni: The Implications of Public Health for Bioethics


• 29: Ruth Macklin: Global Health


• 30: Jonathan Moreno: Bioethics and Bioterrorism