Exploring the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality, this book shows that bioethics, if it is to be effective, must address the actualities of modern life: policies, regulations, markets, opinions, and technological advances. It features contributions from fifteen notable scholars working in the North West of England.

Foreword by John Harris Preface Introduction Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, and Peter Herissone-Kelly: The Social Reality of Bioethics ONE Harry LESSER: The Case of Back-Street Abortion TWO Doris SCHROEDER: Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and the Duty to Die THREE Matti HÄYRY: Forget Autonomy and Give Me Freedom! FOUR Monique JONAS: Choosing Between Claims: Allocating Parental Responsibility in Surrogacy Disputes FIVE Tuija TAKALA: The Many Wrongs of Human Reproductive Cloning SIX Louise IRVING: The Problem of Intangibles SEVEN Eve GARRARD and Stephen WILKINSON: Mind the Gap: The Use of Empirical Evidence in Bioethics EIGHT Angus DAWSON: Informed Consent: Bioethical Ideal and Empirical Reality NINE Søren HOLM: What Empirical Bioethics Can Learn from Empirical Business Ethics TEN Jukka KILPI: On Corporate Ethical Responsibility, Stakeholder Value, and Strict Liability in Biotechnology ELEVEN Peter LUCAS: Perspectivism in Risk Management TWELVE Simon WOODS: Moral Progress THIRTEEN Mark SHEEHAN: Healthcare and (a Kind of) Virtue Ethics FOURTEEN Peter HERISSONE-KELLY: Bioethics, Rights-Based Consequentialism, and Social Reality About the Editors and Contributors Index