Routledge Annals of Bioethics
Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention
1st Edition
Edited
By James Stacey Taylor, Mark J. Cherry
November 19, 2025
This volume presents a comprehensive examination of one of bioethics’ most divisive debates: whether human organs should be bought and sold. It brings together diverse philosophical perspectives from leading scholars who explore the moral, political, and practical dimensions of organ markets. The ...
Medical Ethics in the Catholic Tradition: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, Medicine, and the Law
1st Edition
By Margaret M. Hogan, Edward M. Hogan, Annique K. Hogan, Matthew J.D. Hogan
August 08, 2025
This book is a comprehensive survey and a sustained treatment of the major topics in contemporary medical ethics from within the Roman Catholic tradition. It brings together perspectives from philosophy, theology, medicine, and law to explore the traditions that undergird Catholic medical ethics. ...
An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
By Mary Ann G. Cutter
June 27, 2025
This book explores the ethical implications of managing uncertainty in clinical decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic. It develops an ethics of clinical uncertainty that brings together insights from the clinical and biomedical ethical literatures. The book sets out to recognize the central ...
Voluntary Consent: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Maximilian Kiener
October 07, 2024
Voluntariness is a necessary condition of valid consent. But determining whether a person consented voluntarily can be difficult, especially when people are subjected to coercion or manipulation, placed in a situation with no acceptable alternative other than to consent to something, or find ...
Agency, Pregnancy and Persons: Essays in Defense of Human Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Colgrove, Bruce P. Blackshaw, Daniel Rodger
May 27, 2024
This book provides extensive and critical engagement with some of the most recent and compelling arguments favoring abortion choice. It features original essays from leading and emerging philosophers, bioethicists and medical professionals that present philosophically sophisticated and novel ...
Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Plasma Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors
1st Edition
By James Stacey Taylor
May 27, 2024
This is the first book to argue in favor of paying people for their blood plasma. It does not merely argue that offering compensation to plasma donors is morally permissible. It argues that prohibiting donor compensation is morally wrong—and that it is morally wrong for all of the reasons that are ...
Ethical Issues in Cardiovascular Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By David M. Zientek, Mark J. Cherry
May 27, 2024
This book provides an exploration of the ethics of cardiology practice. It provides a variety of frameworks for analyzing ethical issues that arise in cardiovascular medicine. Cardiovascular medicine—the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired diseases of the heart, major arteries, and ...
The Limits of Parental Authority: Childhood Wellbeing as a Social Good
1st Edition
By Johan C. Bester
May 27, 2024
This book offers a novel theory of childhood well-being as a social good. It re-examines our fundamental assumptions about parenting, parental authority, and a liberal society’s role in the raising of children. The author defends the idea that the good of a child is inexorably linked to the good of...
The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice
3rd Edition
By Christopher Kaczor
September 30, 2022
The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of abortion more important than ever. Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. This third edition of The Ethics of Abortion critically ...
A Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice
1st Edition
By Aaron D. Cobb
September 30, 2021
Perinatal hospice is a novel form of care for an unborn child who has been diagnosed with a significantly life-limiting condition. In this book, Aaron D. Cobb develops a virtue-based defense of the value of perinatal hospice. He characterizes its promotion and provision as a common project of ...
Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine
1st Edition
By Ruth E. Groenhout
June 30, 2021
This book examines the central structures in medicine—medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority—from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the challenges they present to end of life care. ...
Uncertain Bioethics: Moral Risk and Human Dignity
1st Edition
By Stephen Napier
June 30, 2021
Bioethics is a field of inquiry and as such is fundamentally an epistemic discipline. Knowing how we make moral judgments can bring into relief why certain arguments on various bioethical issues appear plausible to one side and obviously false to the other. Uncertain Bioethics makes a significant ...