BIOETHICS

• Offers a clear and stimulating textbook introduction to contemporary issues in bioethics.
  
• Provides original and provocative contributions to ongoing debates.
  
• Guides the reader from the more familiar debates on euthanasia, advance directives, and new reproductive technologies, through to the philosophical implications of developments such as prenatal genetic therapy, genetic enhancement and human cloning.
  
• The book is built around four important themes: the nature of moral status (eg of embryos or animals); life, death, and killing (eg euthanasia); the threat to personal identity; the question of whether biomedical innovations can be ‘unnatural’.

Introduction.

PART I: Moral Status.

Introduction to Part I.

1. Stem Cell Therapy.

2. Xenotransplantation.

Part I: Concluding Remarks.

PART II: Life, Death and Killing.

Introduction to Part II.

3. The Value of Life.

4. What is Death?.

5. Killing versus Letting Die.

Part II: Concluding Remarks.

PART III: Personal Identity.

Introduction to Part III.

6. Prenatal Genetic Intervention.

7. Advance Directives.

Part III: Concluding Remarks.

PART IV: The Normativity of the 'Natural'.

Introduction to Part IV.

8. Managing Reproduction.

9. Genetic Enhancement.

10. Human Cloning.

Part IV: Concluding Remarks.

Concluding Remark: Deontic Constraints on Biomedicine.

References.

Index.