Ethics, Law and Society

Contents: Introduction, Jennifer Gunning, Soren Holm and Ian Kenway; Part I Ethical Issues in Agriculture and Food: Modern farming practices and animal welfare, Joyce D'Silva; Animal integrity in the modern farming world, Kate Millar and David Morton; CAP reforms: effects on agriculture and environment, Franz Sinabell and Erwin Schmid; The ethics of animal cloning, Mickey Gjerris, Christian Gamborg and Peter Sandoe; European food regulation and accountability: the interplay of influences shaping the new regulatory terrain, Samarthia Thankappan; Globalization and sustainability in agriculture: role of law and ethics, John Hodges; Production economics, markets and assurance programmes for farm animal welfare, Michael C. Appleby. Part II Bioethics: Puzzle-solving for fun and profit: the abusive potential of non-genetic health data in epidemiological biobanks, Anne Maria Skrikerud and Jon Grov; The ethical topogaphy of research biobanking, Jan Reinert Karlsen and Roger Strand; Fuzzy law encountering life, death and morality: a report on 9 clinical ethics committees' legal considerations, Reidar Pedersen and Reidun Forde; Bioethics, biopower and the post-genomic challenge, Kjetil Rommertveit; What's wrong with genetic inequality?, Claudio Tamburrini; Public and private interests in the genomic era: a pluralist approach, Margit Sutrop and Kadri Simm; Challenging science: public views of personalized medicine, Elisa Pieri; Therapeutic cloning and the protection of embryonic life: different approaches, different levels of protection - a view from the United Kingdom, Soren Holm; Informed consent, trust and virtue in Czech medicine, Jiri Simek, Eva Krizova, Lenka Zamykalova and Marie Mesanyova. Part III Ethics and Society: America and the case for just war against Iraq, Chris J. Dolan; Children in conflict: can the real child soldier please stand up?, Helen Brocklehurst; Ethical dimensions of youth justice, Rob Allen; Reproductive technologies and the question of the child's future freedom, Erik Malmqvist; Ethics, paediatric doping and the limits of Gillick consent, Mike McNamee; What protection do consumers require in the information economy?, Jane K. Winn; Justifying claims of state responsibility to meet the needs of irregular migrants: the problem with proceeding from human rights, Marit Hovdal Moan; Women workers in the global economy: a feminist critique of the core labour standards, Juanita Elias and Hayley Stevenson; Allocating health care resources: the role of personal responsibility, Alena M. Buyx; The responsibilities of health professionals in crisis situations, Michael Igoumenidis. Part IV Commentaries: Case commentary: Evans v. the United Kingdom, Natasha Hammond; The incident of the container ship MSC Napoli: is it an intractable problem?, Ho-Sam Bang; The (not so) great escape: the legal and moral responsibility for the Foot and Mouth outbreak 2007, Robert G. Lee; Ethics and the advent of the Holy Grail of stem cell research, Soren Holm; Index.