Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Professional Morality: Can an Examined Life Be Lived? 9
6. Methods of Bioethics: Some Defective Proposals 18
7. Morally Appreciated Circumstances: A Theoretical Problem for Casuistry 37
8. Moral Philosophy and Bioethics: Contextualism versus the Paradigm Theory 50
9. The Role of Principles in Practical Ethics 79
10. Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Practice 96
11. Bioethics through the Back Door: Phenomenology, Narratives, and Insights into Infertility 115
12. Good Bioethics Must Be Feminist Bioethics 143
13. Reflections of a Sceptical Bioethicist 163
14. Theory versus Practice in Ethics: A Feminist Perspective on Justice in Health Care 187
15. Gender Rites and Rights: The Biopolitics of Beauty and Fertility 210
16. Moral Philosophy and Public Policy: The Case of New Reproductive Technologies 244
17. Public Moral Discourse 271
18. Contributors 297