Ethics, Law and Society

Dr Jennifer Gunning is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society, University of Wales. She was the Coordinator of the EC BiomedII Project, Therapeutic Research in Assisted Conception and was a member of the Human Embryo and Fetus Working Group of the European Commission. Soren Holm is Chair of Bioethics at Cardiff University and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society. Both have published widely on issues relating to bioethics.

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