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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics Ezio Di Nucci

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics By Ezio Di Nucci

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics by Ezio Di Nucci


Summary

A wide-ranging, comprehensive overview of pressing issues in bioethics today, this handbook takes into account current affairs and historical precedents. Interdisciplinary authorship and global examples make the handbook applicable to a variety of scholar, student, and practitioner types.

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics Summary

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics by Ezio Di Nucci

This bioethics handbook offers concise, up-to-date, and easy to read chapters on a broad range of bioethical topics in the following categories: foundational concepts, theory and method, healthcare ethics, research ethics, public health, technology, and the environment.

The volume provides a snapshot of current bioethics, taking into account current affairs and emerging new topics. Each chapter acknowledges and critically breaks down the historical developments of the subject and the most authoritative existing literature on respective topics, providing accessible and up-to-date philosophical analysis. As such, the chapters are designed to be attractive as primary or supplementary teaching material for university classes of the philosophical or bioethical variety, with clear demarcations and indicators for key terms, ideas, and arguments that should also facilitate productive note-taking and points for critical discussion for students. The handbook also serves as a one-stop starting resource for multi- and interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners who engage with bioethics in their work.

About Ezio Di Nucci

Ezio Di Nucci is professor of bioethics and director of the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Ji-Young Lee is postdoctoral researcher in bioethics in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. She works on the Velux-funded Future of Family Relationships project, which explores the future of family structures and ties in light of advances in reproductive technologies.

Isaac A Wagner is teaching associate professor of bioethics in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen.

Table of Contents

Key: green indicates new/emerging topics not seen/uncommon in other handbooks of similar type

  1. Foundational Concepts
  1. Moral Status
  2. Autonomy and Responsibility
  3. Disability
  4. Health, Disease, and Well-being
  5. Neurodiversity
  6. Mental Health and Psychiatry

  1. Theory and Method
  1. Ethical Theories
  2. Bioethical Principles
  3. Naturalism in Bioethics
  4. Phenomenological approaches
  5. The Precautionary Principle

  1. Healthcare Ethics
Clinical Decision-making
  1. Consent and Treatment
  2. Substituted/Proxy Decision-making/Guardianship
  3. Nursing Ethics
  4. Conscientious Objection

Life and Death
  1. Euthanasia and Assisted Death
  2. Refusals of Lifesaving Treatment
  3. Organ Sales and Transplants
  4. Abortion and Sex Selection

Epistemic Challenges in Healthcare
  1. Bias in Healthcare
  2. Epistemic Injustice
  3. Epistemic Paternalism

  1. Research Ethics
  1. Consent and Understanding in Research
  2. Animal Experimentation
  3. Race and Gender in Research

  1. Public Health
Public Health: Foundations
  1. Priority Setting and Resource Allocation
  2. Health Care Rights
  3. Inequality, Justice, and Vulnerable Populations

Public Health: Applied Issues
  1. Big Pharma and Ethics
  2. Occupational and work-related illness
  3. Nudging and Paternalism in Public Health

Public Health: Pandemic Ethics
  1. Infectious Diseases and Ethical Dilemmas
  2. Pandemic Planning
  3. Vaccination Ethics
  4. Human Infection Studies

  1. Technology
Reproduction
  1. The Ethics of Parenthood
  2. Prenatal Testing
  3. Assisted Reproductive Technologies
  4. Artificial Womb Technology

Developments in Biomedical Technologies
  1. AI and Robots in Medical Practice
  2. Performance Enhancing Drugs
  3. Cosmetic Enhancement
  4. Neuroethics

  1. The Environment
  1. Medical Waste
  2. Climate Change
  3. Population Control
  4. Migration and Health

Additional information

NGR9781538162361
9781538162361
1538162369
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics by Ezio Di Nucci
New
Hardback
Rowman & Littlefield
2023-01-31
424
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