Bioethics: A Basic Bibliography

By Patrick S. O’Donnell

Department of Philosophy

Santa Barbara City College (2008)

This bibliography consists of books (in English) that directly or indirectly treat bioethics or topics related in some way to bioethics. It includes works skeptical of the normative role of bioethics in general or critical of this or that aspect of bioethics.

Aday, Lu Ann, ed. Reinventing Public Health: Policies and Practices for a Healthy Nation. San

Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Aginam, Obijiofor. Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Allender, Judith Ann and Barbara Walton Spradley. Community Health Nursing: Protecting the Public’s Health. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 6th ed., 2004.

Almond, Barbara., ed. AIDS: A Moral Issue—The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects. London: Macmillan, 2nd ed., 1996.

Anand, Sudhir, Peter Fabienne and Amartya Sen, eds. Public Health, Ethics, and Equity.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Anders, G. Health against Wealth: HMOs and the Breakdown of Medical Trust. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Andre, J. Bioethics as Practice. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Annas, George J. Standard of Care: The Law of American Bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Annas, George J. Some Choice: Law, Medicine, and the Market. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Annas, George J. American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Annas, George J. Michael A. Gordin. The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Areen, Judith A., Patricia A. King, Steven Goldberg, Lawrence O. Gostin and Alexander Morgan Capron, eds. Law, Science and Medicine. New York: Foundation Press, 2nd ed., 1996.

Ashley, Benedict M., Jean Deblois and Kevin D. O’Rourke. Health Care Ethics: A Catholic Theological Analysis. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 5th ed., 2006.

Athanassoulis, Nafsika, ed. Philosophical Reflections On Medical Ethics. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005.

Atighetchi, Dariusch. Islamic Bioethics: Problems and Perspectives. New York: Springer, 2007.

Baker, R., A. Caplan and L. Emmanuel, eds. The American Medical Ethics Revolution. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Bayer, Ronald. Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health. New York: Free Press, 1989.

Bayertz, Kurt, ed. The Concept of Moral Consensus: The Case of Technological Interventions in Human Reproduction. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994.

Beauchamp, Dan E. The Health of the Republic: Epidemics, Medicine, and Moralism as Challenges to Democracy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988.

Beauchamp, Dan E. and Bonnie Steinbock, eds. NewEthics for the Public’s Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Beauchamp, Tom L. and James F. Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 5th ed., 2001.

Beauchamp, Tom L., et al., Contemporary Issues in Bioethics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 7th ed., 2007.

Benjamin, M. and J. Curtis. Ethics in Nursing. New York: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 1992.

Benner, P., C. Tanner and C. Chesla. Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment, and Ethics. New York: Springer, 1996.

Bennett, Belinda and Tomossy, George F., eds. Globalization and Health: Challenges for Health Law and Bioethics. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

Bennett, Peter and Kenneth Calman, eds. Risk Communication and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Berg, Jessica W., et al.Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2001.

Berkman, Lisa F. and Ichiro Kawachi, eds. Social Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Biggar, N. Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004.

Bleich, David. Bioethical Dilemmas: A Jewish Perspective. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 1998.

Bodenheimer, Thomas S. and Kevin Grumbach. Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical, 4th ed., 2005.

Bolton, Derek and Jonathan Hill. Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2003.

Bradley, Peter and Amanda Burls, eds. Ethics in Public and Community Health. New York:

Routledge, 2000.

Brock, Dan W. Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics. Cambridge, UK:

Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Brody, Howard. Stories of Sickness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2003.

Brody, Howard. Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Brownson, Ross C., et al. Evidence-Based Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Buchanan, Allen, et al. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Buchanan, David R. An Ethic for Health Promotion: Rethinking the Sources of Human Well- Being. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Bulger, Ruth Allen, et al, eds. Society’s Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1995.

Bulger, Ruth Ellen and Harvey V. Fineberg, eds. Society’s Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1988.

Burt, Robert A. Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law and Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.

Callahan, Daniel. False Hopes: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Sustainable, Affordable Medicine. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Carson, Ronald A. and Chester R. Burns, eds. Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: A Twenty-Year Retrospective and Critical Appraisal. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.

Cassell, Eric J. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Chadwick, Ruth, ed. Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control. London: Routledge, 1992 ed.

Chadwick, Ruth and Alison Thompson, eds. Genetic Information Acquisition, Access, and Control. New York: Kluwer, 1999.

Churchill, Larry R. Rationing Health Care in America: Perceptions and Principles of Justice. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.

Cohen, Bruce J. Theory and Practice of Psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Cohen, Peter J. Drugs,Addiction, and the Law: Policy, Politics, and Public Health. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2004.

Colb, Sherry F. When Sex Counts: Making Babies and Making Law. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Cook, Rebecca, Bernard Dickens, and Mahmoud Fathalla. Reproductive Health and Human

Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics, and Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Cooper, Jeremy, ed. Law, Rights & Disability. London: Jessica Kingsley Publ., 2000.

Cooper, Rachel. Classifying Madness: A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and

Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.

Coughlin, Steven S. and Tom L. Beauchamp. Ethics and Epidemiology. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1997.

Coulter, Angela and Chris Ham, eds. The Global Challenge of Health Care Rationing.Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 2000.

Crawford, S. Cromwell. Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in a North American Context. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Curran, William, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Mary Clark. AIDS: Legal, Regulatory and Policy Analysis. Frederick, MD: University Publishing Group, 1988.

Daniels, Norman. Just Health Care. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Daniels, Norman, Donald W. Light and Ronald L. Caplan. Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Daniels, Norman, Bruce Kennedy, and Ichiro Kawachi. Is Inequality Bad for Our Health? Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2000.

Daniels, Norman and James E. Sabin. Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical

Resources? New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Danis, Marion, Carolyn Clancy and Larry R. Churchill, eds. Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

DeGrazia, David. Human Identity and Bioethics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Detels, Roger, et al., eds. The Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 3 Vols. New York: Oxford

University Press, 4th ed., 2002.

Donchin, Anne and Laura M. Purdy, eds. Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Dormandy, Thomas. The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.

Drèze, Jean, Amartya Sen and Athar Hussain, eds. The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Drèze, Jean and Amartya Sen. Hunger and Public Action. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Dubler, Nancy and Leonard Marcus. Mediating Bioethical Disputes. New York: United Hospital Fund of New York, 1994.

Dworkin, Gerald. The Theory and Practice of Autonomy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Dworkin, Ronald. Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual

Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Eberl, Jason T. Thomistic Principles and Bioethics. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Eckenweiler, Lisa A. and Felicia G. Cohen, eds. The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Elliott, Carl. Bioethics, Culture and Identity: A Philosophical Disease. London: Routledge, 1999.

Elliott, Carl, ed. Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Wittgenstein, Medicine and Bioethics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.

Elster, Jon. Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.

Emanuel, Ezekiel J. The Ends of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Emanuel, Ezekiel J., et al., eds. Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research: Readings and Commentary. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Engelhardt, H. Tristram, Jr. Bioethics and Secular Humanism. Philadelphia, PA: Trinity Press International, 1991.

Engelhardt, H. Tristram, Jr. The Foundations of Christian Bioethics. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 2000.

Engelhardt, H. Tristram, Jr. The Foundations of Bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1996.

Evans, J.H. Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of the Bioethical Debate. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Evans, Robert G., Morris L. Barer and Theodore R. Marmor, eds. Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994.

Faden, Ruth R. and Tom L. Beauchamp. A History and Theory of Informed Consent. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley, CA: University of

California Press, 2001.

Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

Feldman, Eric and Ronald Bayer, eds. Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Fidler, David P. International Law and Public Health: Materials on and Analysis of Global Health Jurisprudence. Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publ., 2000.

Fingarette, Herbert. Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.

Foucault, Michel (A.M. Sheridan Smith, trans.). The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. New York: Random House, 1973.

Frank, A.W. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Freeman, Michael, ed. Children, Medicine and the Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.

Fulford, K.W.M. Moral Theory and Medical Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Garwood-Gowers, Austen, John Tingle, and Kay Wheat, eds. Contemporary Issues In Healthcare Law and Ethics. Edinburgh/New York: Elsevier Butterworth- Heinemann, 2005.

Gaylin, W. and B. Jennings. The Perversion of Autonomy: Coercion and Constraint in Liberal

Society. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003.

Gert, Bernard, Charles M. Culver and K. Danner Clouser. Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Ghaemi, S. Nassir. The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Gill, Robin. Health Care and Christian Ethics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Gillet, Grant. Bioethics in the Clinic: Hippocratic Reflections. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Gillon, Ranaan, ed. Principles of Health Care. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Gold, M.R. Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Goodman, Richard A., et al, eds. Law in Public Health Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Gostin, Lawrence O. Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.

Gostin, Lawrence O. , ed. Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Gostin, Lawrence O. and Zita Lazzarini. Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Griese, O.N. Catholic Identity in Health Care: Principles and Practice. Braintree, MA: Pope John Center, 1987.

Griffiths, A. Phillips, ed. Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Gross, Michael L. Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

Gruskin, Sofia, Michael A. Grodin, George J. Annas and Stephen P. Marks, eds. Perspectives on Health and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Guinn, David E., ed. Handbook of Bioethics and Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Gunning, Jennifer and Søren Holm, eds. Ethics, Law, and Society, Vol. I. Aldershot, England/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Gunning, Jennifer and Søren Holm, eds. Ethics, Law, and Society, Vol. II. Aldershot, England/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Hall, Mark A., Mary Anne Bobinski, and David Orentlicher. Bioethics and Public Health

Law. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2005.

Hanson, Mark J. and Daniel Callahan, eds. The Goals of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues of Health Care. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001.

Harris, John. Clones, Genes and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution. Oxford, UK:

Oxford University Press, 1998.

Harris, John and Søren Holm, eds. The Future of Human Reproduction: Ethics, Choice and Regulation. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Hauerwas, Stanley. God, Medicine, and Suffering. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000 (1990).

Healy, Daivd. The Creation of Psychopharmacology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Hoffmaster, B., B. Freedman and G. Fraser, eds. Clinical Ethics: Theory and Practice. Clifton, NJ: Humana Press, 1989.

Hofrichter, Richard, ed. Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the

Distribution of Disease—A Public Health Reader. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Howard, Philip and James Bogle, Medical Law and Ethics. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

Hursthouse, Rosalind. Beginning Lives. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1987.

John Paul II. Evangelium Vitae: Encyclical Letter on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life. 11th Papal Encyclical, March 25, 1995. Rome: Vatican Press.

Johnson, Alan G. and Paul R.V. Johnson. Making Sense of Medical Ethics: A Hands-On Guide. London: Hodder Arnold, 2007.

Jonsen, Albert R. The Birth of Bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Jonsen, Albert R. A Short History of Medical Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Jonsen, Albert R. and Stephen Toulmin. The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.

Kamm, F.M. Morality, Mortality, Vol. 1: Death and Whom to Save from It. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Kass, L. et al. Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President’s Council on Bioethics. New York: Public Affairs, 2002.

Kawachi, Ichiro, Bruce P. Kennedy and Richard G. Wilkinson, eds. The Society and Population Health Reader, Vol. 1: Income Inequality and Health. New York: The New Press, 1999.

Kawachi, Ichiro and Lisa F. Berkman, eds. Neighborhoods and Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Kelly, David F. Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004.

Kennedy, Ian and Andrew Grubb. Medical Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Keown, Damien. Buddhism and Bioethics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Keown, John. Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Khushf, George, ed. Handbook of Bioethics: Taking Stock of the Field from a Philosophical Perspective. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004.

King, Patricia A., Judith Areen and Lawrence O. Gostin. Law, Medicine and Ethics. New York: Foundation Press, 2006.

Kuhse, Helga. The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Kuhse, Helga and Peter Singer, eds. A Companion to Bioethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1998.

Kuhse, Helga and Peter Singer, eds. Bioethics: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006.

Lammers, Stephen E. and Allen Verhey, eds. On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2nd ed., 1998.

LaVeist, Thomas. Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the U.S. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

LaVeist, Thomas A., ed. Race, Ethnicity and Health: A Public Health Reader. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Lavery, James V. et al., eds. Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research: A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Levine, R.J. Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research. Baltimore, MD: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1986.

Lockwood, M., ed. Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Mann, Jonathan M., Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin and George J. Annas, eds. Health and Human Rights: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Manson, Neil C. and Onora O’Neill. Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Marmot, Michael and Richard G. Wilkinson, eds. Social Determinants of Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Mason, Kenyon, Alexander McCall Smith, and Graeme Laurie. Law and Medical Ethics.

New York: Oxford University Press, 6th ed., 2005.

Mathieu, Deborah, ed. Organ Substitution Technology: Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Issues. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988.

May, William E. Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2000.

McGee, Glenn, ed. Pragmatic Bioethics. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.

McMahan, Jeff. The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.