Current Controversies in Bioethics

Historically, bioethics has been associated with issues in research ethics and clinical ethics as a result of research scandals such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and public debates about the definition of death, medical paternalism, health care rationing, and abortion. As biomedical technologies have advanced, challenging new questions have arisen for bioethics and new sub-disciplines, such as neuroethics and public health ethics, have entered the scene. This volume features ten original essays on five cutting-edge controversies in bioethics written by leading philosophers.

I. Research Ethics: How Should We Justify Ancillary-Care Duties?

Separate contributions from Henry S. Richardson and S. Matthew Liao & Collin O'Neil

II. Clinical Ethics: Are Psychopaths Morally Accountable?

Separate contributions from Dana Kay Nelkin and Agnieszka Jaworska

III. Reproductive Ethics: Is There a Solution to the Non-Identity Problem?

Separate contributions from Melinda A. Roberts & David T. Wasserman and Saul Smilansky

IV. Neuroethics: What Is Addiction and Does It Excuse?

Separate contributions from Timothy Schroeder & Nomy Arpaly and Neil Levy

V. Public Health Ethics: Is Luck Egalitarianism Implausibly Harsh?

Separate contributions from Zofia Stemplowska and Nir Eyal

S. Matthew Liao and Collin O'Neil's concise introduction, the annotated bibliographies and study questions for each controversy, and the supplemental guide to additional current controversies in bioethics give the reader a broad grasp of the different kinds of challenges today in bioethics.

Autorentext

S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, New York University. He is the author or editor of The Right to Be Loved (2015) and Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2016), and co-edited Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (2015). He has been featured in the New York Times and other media outlets and is the Editor in Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Collin O'Neil is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, City University of New York. His recent publications have appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs, American Journal of Bioethics, and Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.

Zusammenfassung
Bioethics is the study of ethical issues arising out of advances in the life sciences and medicine. Historically, bioethics has been associated with issues in research ethics and clinical ethics as a result of research scandals such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and public debates about the definition of death, medical paternalism, health care rationing, and abortion. As biomedical technologies have advanced, challenging new questions have arisen for bioethics and new sub-disciplines such as neuroethics and public health ethics have entered the scene. This volume features ten original essays on five cutting-edge controversies in bioethics written by leading philosophers. I. Research Ethics: How Should We Justify Ancillary Care Duties? II. Clinical Ethics: Are Psychopaths Morally Accountable?III. Reproductive Ethics: Is There A Solution to the Non-Identity Problem?IV. Neuroethics: What is Addiction and Does It Excuse? V. Public Health Ethics: Is Luck Egalitarianism Implausibly Harsh?S. Matthew Liao and Collin O'Neil's concise introduction to the essays in the volume, the annotated bibliographies and study questions for each controversy, and the supplemental guide to additional current controversies in bioethics give the reader a broad grasp of the different kinds of challenges in bioethics.

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Acknowledgements

Contributors

Bioethics: Current Controversies

S. Matthew Liao and Collin O'Neil

Part I

Research Ethics: How Should We Justify Ancillary Care Duties?

1. Locating Medical Researchers' Ancillary-Care Obligations within the Division of Moral Labor Henry S. Richardson

2. The Grounds of Ancillary Care Duties S. Matthew Liao and Collin O'Neil

Part I Suggested Readings Part II

Clinical Ethics: Are Psychopaths Morally Accountable?

3. Fine Cuts of Moral Agency: Dissociable Deficits in Psychopathy and Autism
   Dana Kay Nelkin

4. Holding Psychopaths Responsible and the Guise of the Good Agnieszka Jaworska

Part II Suggested Readings

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Part III

Reproductive Ethics: Is There a Solution to the Non-Identity Problem?

5. Dividing and Conquering the Nonidentity Problem
   Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman

6. The Nonidentity Problem: United and Unconquered
   Saul Smilansky

Part III Suggested Readings

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Part IV

Neuroethics: What Is Addiction and Does It Excuse?

7. Addiction, Habits, and Blame Timothy Schroeder and Nomy Arpaly

8. How Addicts Lose Control Neil Levy

Part IV Suggested Readings

Part V

Public Health Ethics: Is Luck Egalitarianism Implausibly Harsh?

9. Rarely Harsh and Always Fair: Luck Egalitarianism and Unhealthy Choices Zofia Stemplowska

10. Luck Egalitarianism, Harshness, and the Rule of Rescue Nir Eyal

Part V Suggested Readings

Supplemental Guide to Further Controversies

Index