Bioethics Methods, Theories, Domains

includes index and biblioraphy

1 What is bioethics? An introduction 1.1 An introduction to bioethics? 1 1.1.1 Institutionalisation of bioethics 2 1.1.2 Interdisciphnanty: judgments in bioethics are mixed judgments 5 1.2 Biosdences - biomedicine - bioethics 1 1.1.3 Bioethics - history and concept 19 1.3.1 Bioethics as an academic discipline 21 1.3.2 The concept of ethics 22 1.3.3 The domain of application 24 2 Bioethics and moral philosophy 2.1 The tension between moral philosophy and bioethics 27 2.1.1 Morality and ethics - conceptual differences 34 2.1.2 Normative ethics and the good life: criticisms of normative ethics 40 2.1.3 Metaethical presuppositions 45 2.1.4 Case studies - experience - narrativity 5 1 2.1.5 Empirical research and ethics 59 2.2 Bioethics and normative ethics 65 2.2.1 Classifications of normative ethical theories 66 2.2.2 Utilitarianism and balancing interests 70 2.2.3 Dignity and rights 79 2.2.4 Prima facie principles, principlism 96 2.2.5 Contractualism and political liberalism 103 2.2.6 Methodological reflection 106 3 A cross section of bioethical questions 3.1 Moral status 109 3.1.1 The justification of moral status 112 3.1.2 The scope of moral status 116 3.1.3 `Dignity of the creature` 121 3.2 Nature and life 125 3.2.1 `Naturalness` 125 3.2.2 Control over nature and life 128 3.2.3 A teleological understanding of nature? 134 3.2.4 The aesthetics of nature and contingency 1 37 3.3 Human nature and culture 141 3.3.1 Concepts and images of human nature 141 3.3.2 Gender 154 3.3.3 Disability 161 3.3.4 Intercultural bioethics 168 3.3.5 Bioethics, religion, theology 174 3.4 New technologies and the scope of responsibility 181 3.4.1 Concepts of responsibility 181 3.4.2 The scope of responsibility: space, time, uncertainty 185 4 Domains and debates in bioethics 193 4.1 Bioethics and biomedicine 193 4.1.1 Informed consent, patient autonomy and medical research 193 4.1.2 Euthanasia and the termination of medical treatment 199 4.1.3 Organ transplantation and organ procurement 212 4.1.4 Reproductive medicine, cloning and stem cell research 222 4.1.5 Genetic diagnosis and gene therapy 233 4.1.6 Disease, enhancement and the aims of medicine 239 4.2 `Green` hioethies 247 4.2.1 Animal ethics 248 4.2.2 Agriculture, food, environment 256