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 Res