Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

The Belmont Report and the Rise of Principles
1. The Origins and Evolution of the Belmont Report
2. Codes, Declarations, and Other Ethical Guidance for Human Subjects Research:
The Belmont Report

Principlism and Practice
3. The Four Principles Approach to Health Care Ethics
4. Informed Consent: Its History and Nature
5. Who Deserves Autonomy and Whose Autonomy Deserves Respect?
6. The Concept of Paternalism in Biomedical Ethics
7. When Hastened Death is Neither Killing Nor Letting-Die
8. The Exploitation of the Economically Disadvantaged in Pharmaceutical Research

Theory and Method
9. Principles and Other Emerging Paradigms for Bioethics
10. A Defense of the Common Morality
11. From Morality to Common Morality
12. On Eliminating the Distinction between Applied Ethics and Ethical Theory
13. Does Ethical Theory Have a Future in Bioethics?
14. The Failure of Theories of Personhood
15. Looking Back and Judging Our Predecessors


Index

About the Author

Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Author of PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS, OUP, now in a sixth edition.

Reviews

"Readers will get a glimpse into key bioethical issues that the author has explored over the last 25 years with this book...This is a wonderful resource for bioethics students and scholars." --Doody's
"Readers should add Standing on Principles to their professional libraries as one of the "essentials." They will find themselves experiencing the splendid rewards of turning to it again and again." --JAMA