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"In his latest book, renowned ethicist James F. Childress uses various metaphors and analogies to highlight the role of imagination in practical reasoning. Childress shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies illuminate moral problems and issues in science, medicine, and health care. The issues he considers include screening and testing for HIV infection, informed consent to and refusal of life-sustaining treatment, allocating scarce health care resources, providing access to and controlling the costs of health care, and obtaining organs and tissues for transplantation."--BOOK JACKET

Death: Resolving biomedical ethics through constitutional law -- Informed consent: Legal protection of patients and human subjects -- Reproductive privacy and parenthood -- Justice: How should health care and organs be distributed? -- Conscience: An exercise of paternalism or autonomy? -- Property: The balance between research, profits, and patients -- The new frontier: Neuroethics

The author explores different views of the significance of the human body and contrasts those which regard it as a commodity or personal possession with those which stress its moral value as integral to the personal identity of individuals. This study provides background to many of the controversies in medical ethics

ed. by Catherine Myser ; Literaturangaben und Index ; Bioethics as missionary work : the export of Western ethics to developing countries ; Facing up to the hard problems : Western bioethics in the Eastern land of India ; Capacity building in developing world bioethics : perspectives on biomedicine and biomedical ethics in contemporary Sri Lanka ; French bioethics : the rhetoric of universality and the ethics of medical responsibility ; The social forms and functions of bioethics in the United Kingdom ; Bioethics between two worlds : the politics of ethics in Central Europe ; Bioethics in Chile and the need for Latin American bioethics ; Bioethics in Costa Rica : origins and challenges ; The social functions of bioethics in South Africa ; Toward an African Ubuntu/Umunthu bioethics in Malawi in the context of globalization ; Reflections on bioethics in China : interactions between bioethics and society ; The dominion of bioethics : nationalism and Canadian bioethics ; Negotiating Islamic identity in Egypt through bioethics : contesting 'the West' and Saudi Arabia ; Bioethics in Australia : on politics, power, and the rise of the Christian right ; Bioethics in the United States : contested terrain for competing visions of American liberalism