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This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.

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• Introduction: Bioethics as a Plural Nou
• n2 The Intellectual Bases of Bioethics
• 3 The Principles of Bioethics
• 4 The Context of Health Care: Persons, Possessions, and States
• 5 The Languages of Medicalization
• 6 The Endings and Beginnings of Persons: Death, Abortion, and Infanticide
• 7 Free and Informed Consent, Refusal of Treatment, and the Health Care Team: The Many faces of Freedom
• 8 Rights to Health Care, Social Justice, and Fariness in Health Care Allocations: Frustrations in the Face of Finitude
• 9 Reshaping Human Nature: Virtue with Moral Stragers; Responsibility Without Moral Consent

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Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, H. Tristram Engelhardt holds both a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas (1963) and an M.D. from the Tulane Medical School (1972). From 1972 until 1977, he taught bioethics at the University of Texas Medical School and then, for the next five years, served as Rosemary Kennedy Professor of the Philosophy of Medicine at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Center for Bioethics in Washington, D.C. Since 1983 he has been professor of internal medicine, community medicine, and obstetrics-gynecology at the Baylor University College of Medicine. For his contributions to bioethics, especially related to the use of human beings in research, Engelhardt has received a Woodrow Wilson fellowship (1988) and a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Germany (1988--89).

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