Book Description:
Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. This new book presents research in the expansive field of bioethics including biomedical ethics in obstetrics, ethical decision making in the health care system, the feasibility of using human oocytes for stem cell research, as well as mandatory circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa to prevent HIV and AIDS and environmental ethics to preserve the world for future generations.

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Table of Contents:
Preface

1. Surgical Vaccine: Should Male Circumcision Be Mandatory in Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 1-29
(Peter A. Clark, Justin Eisenman, Stephen Szapor, Institute of Catholic Bioethics, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and others)

2. Medical Ethics in Obstetrics: A French Experiment, pp. 31-53
(Patrick Leblanc, Pierre-Olivier Arduin, Centre Hospitalier de Béziers, Béziers Cedex, France, and others)

3. The ‘Real World’ of Ethical Decision-Making: Insights from Research, pp. 55-73
(Pam McGrath, Central Queensland University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)

4. The Rights of Future Generations in Environmental Ethics, pp. 75-93
(Carlo Petrini, Bioethics Unit, Italian National Institute of Health, Roma, Italy)

5. Two Different Approaches to Principles of Biomedical Ethics: A Philosophical Analysis and Discussion of the Theories of the American Ethicists Tom L. Beauchamp & James F. Childress and the Danish Philosophers Jakob Rendtorff & Peter Kemp, pp. 95-111
(Mette Ebbesen, Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

6. Oophorectomy Specimens as a Potential Source of Oocytes for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, pp. 113-133
(MiKyung Kim, KAIST Graduate School of Innovation and Technology Management, DaeJeon, South Korea

Index pp.143-151