Rosamond Rhodes & Leslie P. Francis 
The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics 

The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the
complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of
ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine.

* Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted
from the rapid advances in biomedical technology

* Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of
disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to
discuss these issues

* Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling
body parts, resourcing and confidentiality

* Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between
the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.

Table of Content

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine),
Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah) and Anita Silvers (San
Francisco State University).

Part I: Individual Decisions About Clinical Issues.

I.1: Patient Decisions.

1. Autonomy, the Good Life and Controversial Choices: Julian
Savulescu (University of Oxford).

2. Individual Responsibility and Reproduction: Rachel A. Ankeny
(University of Sydney).

3. Patient and Family Decisions about Life-Extension and Death:
Felicia Nimue Ackerman (Brown University).

I.2: Individual Decisions of Physicians and Other Health Care
Professionals.

4. The Professional Responsibilities of Medicine: Rosamond
Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine).

5. Truth telling: Roger Higgs (Emeritus, King’s College,
London).

6. Medical Confidentiality: Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii
at Manoa).

7. Patient Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making: Dan W.
Brock (Harvard Medical School).

8. Ending Life: F.M. Kamm (Harvard University).

9. Discrimination in Medical Practice: Justice and the
Obligations of Health Care Providers to Disadvantaged Patients:
Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah).

10. Institutional Practices, Ethics, and the Physician: Mary V.
Rorty (Stanford University), Ann E. Mills (University of Virginia),
and Patricia H. Werhane (De Paul University).

Part II: Legislative and Judicial Decisions About Social
Policy.

II.2: Liberty.

11. Reproductive Choice: Rebecca Bennett (University of
Manchester) and John Harris (University of Manchester).

12. Public Policy and Ending Lives: Evert van Leeuwen (Vrije
Universiteit Medisch Centrum), and Gerrit Kimsma (Vrije
Universiteit Medisch Centrum).

13. Drug Legalization: Douglas N. Husak (Rutgers
University).

14. Selling Organs, Gametes, and Surrogacy Services: Janet
Radcliffe Richards (University College, London).

15. The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Challenge of
Infectious Disease for Bioethics: Margaret P. Battin (University of
Utah), Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah), Jay A. Jacobson
(University of Utah), Charles B. Smith (Emeritus, University of
Utah).

16. Uses of Science in Medical Ethics: Glenn Mc Gee (Albany
Medical College) and Dyrleif Bjarnadóttir.

11.2: Justice.

17. Allocation of Scarce Resources: Paul Menzel (Pacific
Lutheran University).

18. Just Caring: The Challenges of Priority-Setting in Public
Health: Leonard M. Fleck (Michigan State University).

19. Justice and the Financing of Health Care: Stephen R. Latham
(Quinnipiac University).

20. Judgment and Justice: Evaluating Health Care for Chronically
Ill and Disabled Patients: Anita Silvers (San Francisco State
University).

21. Justice in Research on Human Subjects: David R. Buchanan
(National Cancer Institute, Bethesda), and Franklin G. Miller
(National Institutes of Health, Bethesda).

22. Ethics of Disclosure Following a Medical Injury: Time for
Reform?: Troyen Anthony Brennan (Emeritus, Harvard Medical
School).

23. Pre-existing Conditions: Genetic Testing, Causation and the
Justice of Medical Insurance: Robert T. Pennock (Michigan State
University).

Index

About the author

Rosamond Rhodes is Professor of Medical Education and
Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
and Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate School, CUNY.

Leslie P. Francis is Professor of Philosophy and the
Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Political
Science at the University of Utah, and Adjunct Professor in the
Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Internal Medicine,
University of Utah School of Medicine.

Anita Silvers is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco
State University.