Main description:

Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies draws students into this rapidly changing field, helping them to 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, and rigorous inquiry for undergraduates throughout the humanities and social sciences as well as for health care professionals-in-training, including students in medical school, pre-medicine, nursing, public health, and those studying to assist physicians in various capacities. Written by an author team with more than three decades of combined experience teaching bioethics, this book offers

Flexibility to the instructor, with chapters that can be read independently and in an order that fits the course structure

Up-to-date coverage of current controversies on topics such as vaccination, access to health care, new reproductive technologies, genetics, biomedical research on human and animal subjects, medically assisted death, abortion, medical confidentiality, and disclosure

Attention to issues of gender, race, cultural diversity, and justice in health care

Integration with case studies and primary sources

Pedagogical features to help instructors and students, including

Chapter learning objectives

Text boxes and figures to explain important terms, concepts, and cases

End-of-chapter summaries, key words, and annotated further readings

Discussion cases and questions

Appendices on moral reasoning and the history of ethical issues at the end and beginning of life

An index of cases discussed in the book and extensive glossary/index

A companion website (http://www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780415837958/) with a virtual anthology linking to key primary sources, a test bank, topics for papers, and PowerPoints for lectures and class discussion

Contents:

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