Current Controversies in Bioethics

S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, New York University. He is the author or editor of The Right to Be Loved (2015) and Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2016), and co-edited Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (2015). He has been featured in the New York Times and other media outlets and is the Editor in Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy. Collin O’Neil is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, City University of New York. His recent publications have appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs, American Journal of Bioethics, and Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.

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Contributors

Bioethics: Current Controversies

S. Matthew Liao and Collin O’Neil

Part I

Research Ethics: How Should We Justify Ancillary Care Duties?






Locating Medical Researchers’ Ancillary-Care Obligations within the Division of Moral Labor
Henry S. Richardson




The Grounds of Ancillary Care Duties
S. Matthew Liao and Collin O’Neil

Part I Suggested Readings

Part II

Clinical Ethics: Are Psychopaths Morally Accountable?




Fine Cuts of Moral Agency: Dissociable Deficits in Psychopathy and Autism
Dana Kay Nelkin




Holding Psychopaths Responsible and the Guise of the Good
Agnieszka Jaworska

Part II Suggested Readings



Part III

Reproductive Ethics: Is There a Solution to the Non-Identity Problem?




Dividing and Conquering the Nonidentity Problem
Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman




The Nonidentity Problem: United and Unconquered
Saul Smilansky

Part III Suggested Readings



Part IV

Neuroethics: What Is Addiction and Does It Excuse?




Addiction, Habits, and Blame
Timothy Schroeder and Nomy Arpaly




How Addicts Lose Control
Neil Levy

Part IV Suggested Readings



Part V

Public Health Ethics: Is Luck Egalitarianism Implausibly Harsh?






Rarely Harsh and Always Fair: Luck Egalitarianism and Unhealthy Choices
Zofia Stemplowska




Luck Egalitarianism, Harshness, and the Rule of Rescue

Nir Eyal

Part V Suggested Readings

Supplemental Guide to Further Controversies

Index