Bioethics ─ An Anthology

"The field of bioethics continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. One could hardly ask for a more thorough guide to where it has been, and what values and principles might steer where it is going, than this comprehensive and balanced volume." Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania

"Tins is an outstanding collection which covers all the main issues in bioethics and brings together much of the best philosophical work on them," Dan W. Brock, Harvard Medicol School

"A useful tool to gain an overview of important and influential texts and thinking of leading authors and commentators in bioethics." Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics

Bioethics: An Anthology has become established as the definitive one-volume collection of key primary readings in bioethics. Now fully revised and updated, this third edition reflects current issues and developments, covering all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in the field. Edited by three highly respected scholars, the anthology brings together writings on an unparalleled range of ethical issues relating to such matters as reproduction, genetics, life and death, and animal experimentation.

This latest edition contains a wealth of new material, including important historical readings and the latest contemporary material published since the release of the second edition in 2006. It includes updated coverage on topics such as the ethics of uterus transplantation, sex selection, brain death and euthanasia, stem cell research, mandatory HIV testing in pregnancy, issues facing nurses, and new sections in the areas of neuroethics and public health ethics. Discussions Lire clearly and compellingly presented by internationally renowned bioethicists.

The volume continues to be of great value as both a textbook and reference work, suitable not only for students of philosophy and moral theology, but for doctors, nurses, sociologists, lawyers, and others working in health care and the biomedical sciences.

Helga Kuhse is Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University. She is the author, co-author or editor of more than 150 professional articles and some 15 books, includingThe Sanctity-of-Life-Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique (1987), Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics (1997),Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics (2006), and A Companion to Bioethics, 2nd Edition, (2012).

Udo Schuklenkholds the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy at Queen's University at Kingston in Canada. He is a Joint Editor-in-Chief ofBioethics, the journal of the International Association of Bioethics. He is the author, co-author or editor of 160 contributions in journals and anthologies and 7 books including50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists 2009), The Bioethics Reader (2007) and50 Great Myths About Atheism (2013).

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 40 books, includingAnimal Liberation (first published in 1975), widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement,Practical Ethics (third edition, 2011), In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (2005), andThe Life You Can Save (2009). In 2005, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country’s highest civilian honour.