
Bioethics
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This second edition has been thoroughly and comprehensively updated to reflect the most recent advances in bioethics, and includes an entirely new chapter on the ethical treatment of patients in the minimally conscious state.
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Introduction 1
Part I Moral Status
Introduction to Part I 9
1 Stem Cell Therapy 11
2 Xenotransplantation 29
Part I: Concluding Remarks 48
Part II Life, Death and Killing
Introduction to Part II 53
3 The Value of Life 55
4 What is Death? 68
5 Killing versus Letting Die 85
Part II: Concluding Remarks 103
Part III Personal Identity
Introduction to Part III 107
6 Prenatal Genetic Intervention 111
7 Advance Directives 127
Part III: Concluding Remarks 147
Part IV The Normativity of the 'Natural'
Introduction to Part IV 151
8 Managing Reproduction 159
9 Genetic Enhancement 172
10 Human Cloning 191
Part IV: Concluding Remarks 203
Concluding Remark: Deontic Constraints on Biomedicine 205
References 208
Index 218
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