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Names: Schüklenk, Udo, 1964‐ editor. | Singer, Peter, 1946‐ editor.
Title: Bioethics : an anthology / edited by Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer.
Other titles: Bioethics (Kuhse) | Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 37.
Description: Fourth edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2022. | Series: Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 37 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020032198 (print) | LCCN 2020032199 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119635116 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119635086 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119635154 (epub)
Subjects: MESH: Bioethics | Ethics, Medical | Bioethical Issues | Collected Work
Classification: LCC R724 (print) | LCC R724 (ebook) | NLM WB 5 | DDC 174–dc23
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1 Michael Tooley, “Abortion and Infanticide,” pp. 37–65 from Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (1972). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.
2 Judith Jarvis Thomson, “A Defense of Abortion,” pp. 47–66 from Philosophy and Public Affairs 1: 1 (1971). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.
3 Patrick Lee and Robert P. George, “The Wrong of Abortion,” pp. 13−26 from Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Health Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley‐Blackwell, 2014). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.
4 Don Marquis, “Why Abortion Is Immoral,” pp. 183–202 from Journal of Philosophy 86: 4 (April 1989). Reproduced with permission of the author and The Journal of Philosophy, Inc.
5 Gregory Pence, “Multiple Gestation and Damaged Babies: God’s Will or Human Choice?” This essay draws on “The McCaughey Septuplets: God’s Will or Human Choice,” pp. 39–43 from Gregory Pence, Brave New Bioethics (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). © 2002 Gregory Pence. Reproduced courtesy of Gregory Pence.
6 Timothy Murphy, “The Meaning of Synthetic Gametes for Gay and Lesbian People and Bioethics Too,” pp. 762–765 from Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (2014). Reproduced with permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
7 Derek Parfit, “Rights, Interests, and Possible People,” pp. 369–375 from Samuel Gorovitz et al. (eds.), Moral Problems in Medicine (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976). Reproduced courtesy of Derek Parfit.
8 Laura M. Purdy, “Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral?,” pp. 39–49 from Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996). Reproduced with permission of Cornell University Press.
9 The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, “Sex Selection and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis,” pp. 595–598 from Fertility and Sterility 72: 4 (October 1999). Reproduced with permission of Elsevier.
10 Julian Savulescu and Edgar Dahl, “Sex Selection and Preimplantation Diagnosis: A Response to the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine,” pp. 1879–1880 from Human Reproduction 15: 9 (2000). Reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press.
11 David King, “Why We Should Not Permit Embryos to Be Selected as Tissue Donors,” pp. 13–16 from The Bulletin of Medical Ethics 190 (August 2003). © 2003 RSM Press. Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society of Medicine.
12 Michael Tooley, “The Moral Status of the Cloning of Human Cloning: Neo Lockean Persons Versus Human Embryos.” Written for this edition (2021) and reproduced courtesy of Michael Tooley.
13 Jonathan Glover, “Questions about Some Uses of Genetic Engineering,” pp. 25–33, 33–36, 42–43, and 45–53 from What Sort of People Should There Be? (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984).
14 David B. Resnik, “The Moral Significance of the Therapy–Enhancement Distinction in Human Genetics,” pp. 365–377 from Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9: 3 (Summer 2000) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.
15 Nick Bostrom, “In Defense of Posthuman Dignity,” pp. 202–214 from Bioethics 19: 3 (2005). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.
16 Francis S. Collins, “Statement on NIH Funding of Research Using Gene‐editing Technologies in Human Embryos,” https://www.nih.gov/about‐nih/who‐we‐are/nih‐director/statements/statement‐nih‐funding‐research‐using‐gene‐editing‐technologies‐human‐embryos. Public domain.
17 Giulia Cavaliere, “Genome Editing and Assisted Reproduction: Curing Embryos, Society or Prospective Parents, pp. 215–225 from Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 21. Springer Nature / CC BY 4.0.
18 R. Alta Charo, “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad (Germline Editing) Wolf?” pp. 93–100 from Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 63: 1 (Winter 2020). Reproduced with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press.
19 Julian Savulescu and Peter Singer, “An Ethical Pathway for Gene Editing,” pp. 221–222 from Bioethics 33: 2 (2019). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.
20 Jonathan Glover, “The Sanctity of Life,” pp.
