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The Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition offers an easy-to-follow introduction to this dynamic field, intended for healthcare professionals, teachers, students, and anyone interested in bioethics. Accessible and enjoyable for readers of all backgrounds, the book contains numerous cases-including ones that recently have dominated international headlines-to help anchor the broader discussion. The text is suitable for use in short courses in schools of medicine, nursing, and other health professions; continuing professional education; various undergraduate departments; and adult education. Chapters are organized around common moral themes in order to help readers understand the values and other connections that tie together different positions in bioethics. This fourth edition adds a new chapter on alternative frameworks in bioethics, including narrative ethics and casuistry, feminist approaches, care ethics, and virtue ethics. Due to significant advances in genetics and reproductive possibilities, this new edition devotes a full chapter to each. The combined teaching, research, and clinical experience of the two authors helps make this edition current with the evolving field of bioethics, while still embedding the major issues in a systematic framework that allows readers easily to navigate the larger field.

Key Changes to the Fourth Edition:
 An added chapter on new and emerging approaches in bioethics, including those based on virtue ethics, casuistry and narrative ethics, feminist ethics, and care ethics
 Updates throughout the book based on developments in ethical theory and new medical research
 Revisions and updates to the Learning Objectives, Key Terms, Bibliographies, and URLs
 The addition of multiple recent case studies, including:

Jahi McMath
an undocumented patient who needs a rule bent
a pediatrician who turns away unvaccinated patients
a minor eligible for pediatric bariatric surgery
a daughter suing a hospital for non-disclosure of her father's Huntington's diagnosis
CRISPR-edited newborn babies
Table of Contents
List of Cases. List of Figures. Preface.
1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics The Levels of Moral Discourse; A Full Theory of Bioethics; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History The Hippocratic Tradition; The Collapse of the Hippocratic Tradition; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

3. The Basis of Moral Standing in Debates on Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare Persons, Humans, and Individuals: The Language of Moral Standing; Defining Death; Abortion; Human Stem Cells; The Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

4. Principle-based Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics Principle-based Approaches: Principlism; The List of Principles; Conflict Among Principles; Translating Principles to Rules; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

5. Alternative Approaches: Virtues, Casuistry and Narrative Ethics, Feminist Approaches, and Care Ethics Virtue- based Approaches; Casuistry and Narrative Ethics; Feminist Approaches; Care Ethics; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

6. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient Complications in Determining What Benefits Patients; The Problem of Medical Paternalism; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

7. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises, and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical The Principle of Fidelity and the Duty of Confidentiality; The Principle of Autonomy and the Doctrine of Informed Consent; The Principle of Veracity: Lying and the Duty to Tell the Truth; The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

8. The Principle of Avoiding Killing Active Killing Versus Allowing to Die; Stopping versus Not Starting; The Distinction between Direct and Indirect Killing; The Distinction between Ordinary and Extraordinary Means; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

9. Death and Dying for Patients Who Are Not Their Own Decision-makers Formerly Mentally Capable Patients; Patients Who Have Never Been Mentally Capable and Who Have No Available Family or Other Pre- existing Surrogates; Patients Who Have Never Been Mentally Capable and Have a Surrogate; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

10. Human Control of Life: Genetics and Modifying Human Nature Genetics as the Path to Playing God? The Human Genome Project; The Collection of Genetic Information and Lessons from Henrietta Lacks; Genetic Testing and Counseling; Genetic Screening; Genetic Engineering; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

11. Reproductive Choice and Advancing Technologies: Ethical Challenges in the Creation of Humans Procreative Autonomy: Possibilities and Limits; Abortion and Prenatal Testing; In Vitro Fertilization; Creating a Donor Child; Cloning; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

12. Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocating Resources, Health Insurance, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research The Need for a Social Ethic for Medicine; Allocation of Healthcare Resources; Health Insurance; Organ Transplantation; Research Involving Human Subjects; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Bibliography.

Appendix
Hippocratic Oath; Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005).
Notes. Index.