This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorporates contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces written in response to specific ethical issues. The collection addresses issues arising in biomedical
This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorporates contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces written in response to specific ethical issues. The collection addresses issues arising in biomedical and medical ethics ranging from assisted reproductive technologies to the role of clinical ethics committees. It examines broader societal issues with particular emphasis on sustainability and the environment and also focuses on issues of human rights in current global contexts. The contributors collect responses to issues arising from high profile cases such as the legitimacy of war in Iraq to physician-related suicide. The volume will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and academics with an interest in ethics across a range of disciplines.
Introduction; 1: Introduction; 2: Steering through choppy waters a
tribute to the bioethical nous of Jennifer (Jenny) Gunning 1944-2010, BSc 1
st Class (Open University), PhD (Birkbeck); 1: Ethics of Care; 3: The Ethics
of Care: Resetting our Social 'Operating System' after Rational Man 2.0 and
Sorting Out What we Care About; 4: Care as Cornucopia: A Critical Ethics of
Care and Fantasies of Security in the Neoliberal Affective Economy; 5: Ethics
and Choice in Healthcare: The Case of Public v. Private Cord Blood Banking;
6: Still Gendered After All This Time: Care and Autonomy in Child Custody
Debates 1; 7: Eradicating the Badge of Inferiority Associated with Caregiving
Men: Masculinity, Vulnerability and the Global Employment Context; 2:
Theorizing the Ethical; 8: Theorizing the Ethical: Ethics as a Shared Means
to a Shared End; 9: Why Applied Ethics?; 10: Criminalization and the Moral
Responsibility for Sexual Transmission of HIV 1; 11: Re-Thinking the Ethical:
Everyday Shifts of Care in Biogerontology; 3: Body Politics; 12: Body
Politics; 13: Informed Choice not Informed Consent: Shifting Focus and
Protecting Interests; 14: Informed Choice over Informed Consent: Cracking the
Old Chester nut?; 15: Wanted Dead or Alive: Organ Donation and Limitations on
Surrogate Consent for Non-competent Living Donors; 16: Swept Under the
Carpet: Why Surrogacy Law Needs Urgent Review; 17: Screening Applicants for
Assisted Reproduction: Complexities and Issues; 4: Governance; 18:
Governance: Creating an Ethical Architecture; 19: Human Tissue: A Common
Regulatory Framework for its Procurement, Storage and Use; 20: Moving Human
Embryonic Stem Cells Internationally: Near-future Challenges for the UK Stem
Cell Bank and American Collaborators 1; 21: Confidentiality and the Family
Courts: Ethical Dilemmas for Health and Social Work Practice