Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies helps students actively untangle the many issues at the intersection of medicine and moral concern. Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, it offers balanced, philosophically based inquiry for undergraduates throughout the humanities and social sciences as well as for health care professionals-in-training, including students in medical school, nursing, and public health. Written by an author team with more than three decades of combined experience teaching bioethics, this book offers flexibility for instructors, chapter learning objectives, integration with case studies and primary sources, and a companion website.

PART I. BIOETHICS AND MORAL THEORY

Chapter 1: The Study of Morality

Chapter 2: Philosophical Accounts of Morality

PART II. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN BIOETHICS

Chapter 3: Principle-Oriented and Case-Oriented Bioethics

Chapter 4: Managing Patient Information

Chapter 5: Consent with Competence and Without

PART III. MORAL ISSUES AT THE END OF LIFE

Chapter 6: Death and Dying

Chapter 7: When Life Supports Are Futile or Refused

Chapter 8: Medically Assisted Death

Chapter 9: End-of-Life Measures for Severely Compromised Newborns

PART IV. MORAL ISSUES AT THE BEGINNING OF LIFE

Chapter 10: Personhood in the Abortion Debate

Chapter 11: Abortion in the Typical Case

Chapter 12: Abortion in the Hard Cases

Chapter 13: Conflicts of Rights at Life's Beginning

PART V. THE BIOTECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

Chapter 14: New Reproductive Technologies

Chapter 15: Human Genetic Engineering

PART VI. MEDICINE AND SOCIETY

Chapter 16: Biomedical Research on Animals

Chapter 17: Biomedical Research on Humans

Chapter 18: Justice in Healthcare

Appendix A. The Tools of Ethical Inquiry

Appendix B. Evolving Attitudes toward Ending or Preventing Human Life

Glossary/Index of Key Terms

Index of Cases

Abbreviations

Additional References

Gary Seay is professor of philosophy at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.

Susana Nuccetelli is professor of philosophy at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.