This book distinguishes itself from much of the polemical literature on these issues by
offering the most judicious and well-balanced account yet available of animals' moral …

Placebos are often used by clinicians, usually deceptively and with little rationale or
evidence of benefit, making their use ethically problematic. In contrast with their typical …

When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: what
are the criteria for a person's continuing existence? When non-philosophers address …

We have produced a framework of general moral principles for animal research ethics in a
book, Principles of Animal Research Ethics, which is forthcoming with Oxford University …

Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do
animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for …

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology,
economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing …

Some people contend that fetuses have moral status but less than that of paradigm persons.
Many people hold views implying that sentient animals have moral status but less than that …

Abstract As the President's Council on Bioethics emphasized in a recent report, rapid growth
of biotechnologies creates increasingly many possibilities for enhancing human traits. This …

The enhancement of human traits has received academic attention for decades, but only
recently has moral enhancement using biomedical means–moral bioenhancement (MB) …

The field of bioethics has deployed different models of justification for particular moral
judgments. The best known models are those of deductivism, casuistry, and principlism …