Ethics, Law and Society - Volume 4

Ashgate Publishing, March 2009, Pages: 438

The fourth volume in a series exploring key issues in ethics, law and society, published in association with the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society. This volume brings together selected papers, including contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces written in response to specific ethical issues, including topics on agriculture and food, ethics and society and bioethics. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book provides a valuable resource for all those concerned with contemporary ethical issues.

Reviews:

'Ethics, Law and Society Volume IV excellently captures the diversity of ethical concerns in today's societies. The book engages the spirit of lawyers, physicians and philosophers as well as political, natural and social scientists. Their sustained attempts at resolving difficult moral questions illustrates the importance of academics' passionate involvement with real life issues.'
- Doris Schroeder, University of Central Lancashire, UK and University of Melbourne, Australia

List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgment
List of Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction
Jennifer Gunning, Søren Holm and Ian Kenway

PART I: ETHICAL ISSUES IN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD

2 Modern Farming Practices and Animal Welfare
Joyce D’Silva

3 Animal Integrity in Modern Farming
Kate Millar and David Morton

4 CAP Reforms: Effects on Agriculture and Environment
Franz Sinabell and Erwin Schmid

5 The Ethics of Animal Cloning
Christian Gamborg, Mickey Gjerris and Peter Sandøe

6 European Food Regulation and Accountability: The Interplay of Influences Shaping the New Regulatory Terrain
Samarthia Thankappan

7 Globalization and Sustainability in Agriculture: Role of Law and Ethics
John Hodges

8 Production Economics, Markets and Assurance Programmes for Farm Animal Welfare
Michael C. Appleby

PART II: BIOETHICS

9 Puzzle-Solving for Fun and Profit: The Abusive Potential of Non-Genetic Health Data in Epidemiological Biobanks
Anne Maria Skrikerud and Jon Grov

10 The Ethical Topography of Research Biobanking
Jan Reinert Karlsen and Roger Strand

11 Fuzzy Law Encountering Life, Death, and Morality: A Report on Nine Clinical Ethics Committees’ Legal Considerations
Reidar Pedersen and Reidun Førde

12 Bioethics, Biopower and the Post-Genomic Challenge
Kjetil Rommetveit

13 What’s Wrong with Genetic Inequality?
Claudio Tamburrini

14 Public and Private Interests in the Genomic Era: A Pluralist Approach
Margit Sutrop and Kadri Simm

15 Challenging Science: Public Views of Personalized Medicine
Elisa Pieri

16 Therapeutic Cloning and the Protection of Embryonic Life: Different Approaches, Different Levels of Protection – A View from the United Kingdom
Søren Holm

17 Informed Consent, Trust and Virtue in Czech Medicine
Jiri Simek, Eva Krizová, Lenka Zamykalová, Marie Mesanyová

PART III: ETHICS AND SOCIETY
18 America and the Case for Just War Against Iraq
Chris J. Dolan

19 Childhood in Conflict: Can the Real Child Soldier Please Stand Up?
Helen Brocklehurst

20 Ethical Dimensions of Youth Justice 271
Rob Allen

21 Reproductive Technologies and the Question of the Child’s
Future Freedom
Erik Malmqvist

22 Ethics, Paediatric Doping and the Limitations of Gillick Consent
Mike McNamee

23 W hat Protection Do Consumers Require in the Information
Economy?
Jane K. Winn

24 Justifying Claims of State Responsibility to Meet the Needs of Irregular Migrants: The Problem with Proceeding from Human Rights
Marit Hovdal Moan

25 Women Workers in the Global Economy: A Feminist Critique of the Core Labour Standards
Juanita Elias and Hayley Stevenson

26 Allocating Healthcare Resources: The Role of Personal
Responsibility
Alena M. Buyx

27 The Responsibilities of Healthcare Professionals in Crisis Situations
Michael Igoumenidis

PART IV: COMMENTARIES

28 Case Commentary: Evans v The United Kingdom
Natasha Hammond

29 The Incident of the Container Ship MSC Napoli: Is it an Intractable Problem?
Ho-Sam Bang

30 The (Not So) Great Escape: The Legal and Moral Responsibility for the Foot and Mouth Outbreak 2007
Robert G. Lee

31 Ethics and the Advent of the Holy Grail of Stem Cell Research
Søren Holm

Index

Dr Jennifer Gunning is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society, Cardiff University, UK. She was the Coordinator of the EC BiomedicaI Project, Therapeutic Research in Assisted Conception and was a member of the Human Embryo and Fetus Working Group of the European Commission. Sören Holm is Chair of Bioethics at Cardiff University, and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society. Dr Ian Kenway is currently Director of the Centre for the International Study of Cyberethics and Human Rights (CISCHR), Honorary Research Fellow in Ethics and ICT at Cardiff University and Co-ordinator of CCELS. All have published widely on issues relating to bioethics.