The Routledge Companion to Bioethics (Routledge Philosophy Companions) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415896665 ISBN 13: 9780415896665

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics. The volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by globalization, health disparities, and rapidly advancing technologies. Bioethics has begun a turn toward a systematic concern with social justice, population health, and public policy. While also covering more traditional topics, this volume fully captures this recent shift and foreshadows the resulting developments in bioethics. It highlights emerging issues such as climate change, transgender, and medical tourism, and re-examines enduring topics, such as autonomy, end-of-life care, and resource allocation.

About this title

Review:

"Assembled here are some of the most influential and incisive voices examining many of the cutting edge issues in bioethics today. There is much to learn from the contributors, a good deal to debate and a wealth of ideas that merit further research and study."

Arthur Caplan, New York University Langone Medical Center, USA

"The editors of this Companion have produced a volume that fruitfully reflects their respective areas of expertise and careers in the field of bioethics. They have thus given us a book that offers students at any level a reliable guide to classical debates in bioethics, cutting edge contributions on issues of global resource allocation, and incisive essays involving gender and the body that are all too often excluded from similar books on offer. I cannot think of a better one-stop-shopping introduction to the field."

Bonnie Steinbock, University of Albany, USA

"Erudite and accessible, the new Routledge Companion to Bioethics will be an invaluable resources for students and scholars alike. It provides a window to the field with a sweeping view of pressing issues presented by some of the leading lights of the discipline."

Alex John London, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

"An excellent collection encompassing a broad range of timely issues in Bioethics."

Thomas H. Murray, The Hastings Center, USA

Arras, Fenton, and Kukla have put together an interesting, fresh resource on philosophical bioethics. Though they include essays on standard bioethical concerns―for example, the beginning of life, the end of life, biomedical research―they also provide essays on social justice usually treated in volumes on the ethics of public health (human rights, health disparities, population health, and globalization). This is a welcome change. (...) Summing Up: Recommended."

M. M. Gillis, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University in CHOICE

About the Author:

John D. Arras is the Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics, and Professor of Philosophy and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

Elizabeth Fenton is a Research Analyst at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and a MPH, both from the University of Virginia, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program in Ethics and Health at Harvard University.

Rebecca Kukla is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and the former co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415896665
• ISBN 13: 9780415896665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Arras John D., Fenton Elizabeth, Kukla Rebecca