Bioethics

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. 39–59 from Causing Death and Lives (London: Pelican, 1977).

21 Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Declaration on Euthanasia” (Vatican City, 1980). Public domain.

22 James Rachels, “Active and Passive Euthanasia,” pp. 78–80 from New England Journal of Medicine 292 (1975). © 1975 Massachusetts Medical Society. Reproduced with permission of Massachusetts Medical Society.

23 Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr., “The Morality of Killing: A Traditional View,” pp. 381–419 from Life and Death with Liberty and Justice: A Contribution to the Euthanasia Debate (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1971). Reproduced with permission of University of Notre Dame Press.

24 Winston Nesbitt, “Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die?” pp. 101–105 from Journal of Applied Philosophy 12: 1 (1995). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.

25 Helga Kuhse, “Why Killing Is Not Always Worse – and Sometimes Better – Than Letting Die,” pp. 371–374 from Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare 7: 4 (1998). Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.

26 Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog, and Dan W.Brock, “Moral Fictions and Medical Ethics,” pp. 453–460 from Bioethics 24: 9 (2010). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.

27 Robert M. Sade, “Can a Physician Ever Justifiably Euthanize a Severely Disabled Neonate?” p. 532 from The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 149 (2015). Reproduced with permission of Elsevier.

28 Gilbert Meilaender, “No to Infant Euthanasia,” pp. 533–534 from The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 149 (2015). Reproduced with permission of Elsevier.

29 Udo Schüklenk, “Physicians Can Justifiably Euthanize Certain Severely Impaired Neonates,” pp. 535–537 from The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 149 (2015). Reproduced with permission of Elsevier.

30 Gary Comstock, “You Should Not Have Let Your Baby Die” from The New York Times, July 12, 2017. Reproduced with permission of New York Times / PARS.

31 Alberto Giubilini and Francesa Minerva, “After‐Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?”pp. 261–263 from Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (2013). Reproduced with permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

32 Christopher Kaczor, “Abortion as a Human Rights Violation,” pp. 92–98 from Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor (eds.), Abortion Rights: For and Against (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.

33 Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu, “Hard Lessons: Learning from the Charlie Gard Case,” pp. 438−442 from Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (2018). Reproduced with permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

34 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death, “A Definition of Irreversible Coma,” pp. 85–88 from Journal of the American Medical Association 205: 6 (August 1968).

35 Peter Singer, “The Challenge of Brain Death for the Sanctity of Life Ethic,” pp. 153–165 from Ethics & Bioethics in Central Europe 8: 3–4 (2018).

36 The President’s Council on Bioethics, “The Philosophical Debate,” pp. 49–68 from Controversies in the Determination of Death (white paper). Washington, D.C., December 2008. Public domain.

37 Jeff McMahan, “Alternative to Brain Death,” pp. 47–48 from Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 34 (2006). Includes only the section “An Alternative Understanding of Brain Death,” with some editing to remove references to the earlier section. Reproduced with permission of Sage Publications Ltd.

38 Ronald Dworkin, “Life Past Reason,” pp. 218–229 from Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1993). © 1993 by Ronald Dworkin. Reproduced with permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

39 Rebecca Dresser, “Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy,” pp. 32–38 from Hastings Center Report 25: 6 (November/December 1995). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.

40 Chris Hill, “The Note,” pp. 9–17 from Helga Kuhse (ed.), Willing to Listen, Wanting to Die (Ringwood, Australia: Penguin Books, 1994).

41 Daniel Callahan, “When Self‐Determination Runs Amok,” pp. 52–55 from Hastings Center Report 22: 2 (March/April 1992). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.

42 John Lachs, “When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok,” pp. 10–13 from The Journal of Clinical Ethics 5: 1 (Spring 1994). Reproduced with permission of The Journal of Clinical Ethics.

43 Bonnie Steinbock, “Physician‐Assisted Death and Severe, Treatment‐Resistant Depression,” pp. 30−42 from Hastings Center Report 47: 5 (2017), updated by the author for this edition (2021). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.