Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral theories, and the law. It then leads the newly equipped reader to explore a range of important ethical issues in health care and biomedical research.

1. From Vaccination Ethics to Bioethics and Ethics 2. The Tools of Ethical Inquiry 3. Philosophical Accounts of Morality 4. Principle-Oriented and Case-Oriented Bioethics 5. Managing Personal Medical Information 6. Consent with Competence and Without 7. Death and Dying 8. When Life Supports Are Futile or Refused 9. Medically Assisted Death 10. End-of-Life Measures for Severely Compromised Newborns 11. Morality and the Law in the Typical Case of Abortion 12. Morality and the Law in Hard Cases of Abortion 13. New Reproductive Technologies 14. The Genetic Revolution 15. Biomedical Research on Animals 16. Biomedical Research on Humans 17. Justice in Health Care

Gary Seay is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. He is co-author of a logic book, co-editor of two ethics volumes, and the author of several journal articles. He has served on the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Medicine and was consulting bioethicist on the Ethics Committee of the New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens.

Susana Nuccetelli is Professor of Philosophy at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Her articles in many areas of ethics, including bioethics, have appeared in edited volumes and journals. Her recent books are The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica (Routledge, 2022) and An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2020).