Ethics, Law and Society - Volume 1

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.

Reviews:

'It is pleasing to see a collection that so well demonstrates the rich diversity of contemporary ethical debate, in both content and multidisciplinarity. This volume reaches beyond bioethics to embrace other social issues including food, agriculture and human rights. Including as it does commentaries on contemporary "hard cases", with contributions from key academics in the field, it is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Ethics.' Professor Ruth Chadwick, Lancaster University, UK

'…the editors have assembled a strong and varied range of contributors from a number of differing academic and professional backgrounds…overall, the papers included are well written, interesting and accessible to those outside of the author's particular academic discipline…this book will provide an excellent and accessible resource for academics, students and practitioners engaged in the examination and study of not only the ethical issues raised in this volume, but also ethics in general.' Medical Law Review SHOW LESS READ MORE >

List of Figures and Table
List of Contributors
Acknowledgement
List of Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction
Jennifer Gunning and Søren Holm

PART I: BIOETHICS

2 Therapeutic and Reproductive Cloning – A Scientific Perspective
Richard Gardner

3 Stem Cells, Patents and Ethics
Peter Whittaker

4 Recent Issues in Assisted Reproduction: Evolutions in Science, Law and Ethics
Peter Mills

5 Why do Research on Human Brains?
Margaret Esiri

6 Bioethics in Europe
Berit A. Faber

7 A Penny for Your Thoughts – Ethics in Sponsored Research
Hilde W. Nagell

8 Ethical Issues in Evidence-Based Medicine
Ruud ter Meulen

9 Health Economics and Access to Treatment
Sam Salek
10 Clinical Ethics Committees in Europe: Assistance in Medical Decisions, Fora for Democratic Debates or Bodies to Monitor Basic Rights?
Guy Lebeer

11 Human Dignity and the UNESCO Declaration on the Human Genome
Roberto Andorno

PART II: ETHICS AND SOCIETY

12 Theft of DNA: Do We Need a New Criminal Offence?
Loane Skene

13 Environmental Ethics, Environmental Problems and the Ethics of Science
Robin Attfield

14 Ecological Modernisation and the Precautionary Principle
Robert Lee and Elen Stokes

15 Agri-Culture: Some Principles and Lessons for Sustainability
Jules Pretty

16 Applying the Notion of Sustainability – Dilemmas and the Need for Dialogue
Christian Gamborg and Peter Sandøe

17 GM Resistant: Europe and the WTO Panel Dispute on Biotech Products
Robert Lee

18 Food Ethics
Ben Mepham

19 The Ethics of Journalism: A Summing-up for Lord Hutton
Ian Hargreaves

20 In Search of Ethical Business Leadership: Time to Mix Our Metaphors?
Ken Peattie

21 Only Connect – Broadband Provision and Social Inclusion
Ian Kenway

PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS

22 Human Rights – What Hope? Human Dignity – What Scope?
Roger Brownsword

23 Harmonising Human Rights in Europe
Rick Lawson

24 Ugly, Deformed and Grubby: The Common Law and Human Rights
Luke Clements

25 Holding Multinational Corporations Accountable for Breaches of Human Rights
Celia Wells and Juanita Elias

PART IV: COMMENTARIES

26 The Health Professional and the Dying Patient
Mark Fish

27 Legitimate Authority, Just Cause, and the Decision to Invade Iraq
Gregory Reichberg

28 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) – An Odd New Challenge
Norman Vetter

29 Designing Donors
Shaun D. Pattinson

30 Separating Conjoined Twins: The Case of Ladan and Laleh Bijani
Stephen Wilkinson

31 Brain Research and Neuroethics
Martha J. Farah, Paul Root Wolpe and Arthur Caplan

32 Who has the Right to Determine the Fate of their Embryos?
Gillian Douglas

33 Internet Governance
Ian Kenway

Index

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.