The SAGE Handbook of Healthcare Ethics is an influential collection of work by leading scholars on the fundamental and emerging themes which define healthcare ethics.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Introduction-Health Care Ethics in an Era of Globalisation - Ruth Chadwick, Henk ten Have and Eric M. Meslin
• 1 Methodology - Vittorio Hösle
• 2 Foundationalism and Principles - Henk ten Have
• 3 Anti-Theory - Roberto Andorno
• 4 Ethics of Care - Ruud ter Meulen
• 5 Emerging Technologies: Challenges for Health Care and Environmental Ethics and Rights in an Era of Globalisation - Thomas Alured Faunce
• 6 Professional Codes - Michael Davis
• 7 Organizational Ethics - Eva C. Winkler and Russell L. Gruen
• 8 Deliberation and Consensus - Diego Gracia
• 9 Privacy, Confidentiality and Data Protection - Deryck Beyleveld
• 10 Informed Consent - Vilhjálmur Árnason, Hongwen Li and Yali Cong
• 11 Health Information Technology and Globalization - Kenneth Goodman
• 12 Abortion - Y. Michael Barilan
• 13 Ethics of Genetic Counseling - Gamal I. Serour and Ahmed R. A. Ragab
• 14 Regulating Reproductive Technologies - Don Chalmers
• 15 Reprogenetics - Andrea Kalfoglou
• 16 Palliative Care Ethics - Pierre Boitte and Jean-Philippe Cobbaut
• 17 Medical and Societal Issues in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Georg Bosshard and Lars Johan Materstvedt
• 18 Advance Directives - Paul Schotsmans
• 19 Vulnerability: A Futile or Useful Principle in Healthcare Ethics? - Jan Helge Solbakk
• 20 Vulnerability in Healthcare and Research Ethics - Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra and Nikola Biller-Andorno
• 21 Mental Health and Disorder - Rachel Cooper
• 22 Medical Research Involving Children: A Review of International Policy Statements - Julie Samuël, Bartha Maria Knoppers and Denise Avard
• 23 Orphan Diseases - Ruth Chadwick and Paul McCarthy
• 24 Poverty and Indigenous Peoples - Leonardo D. de Castro, Peter A. Sy and Teoh Chin Leong
• 25 Research Ethics - Paul Ndebele
• 26 Health Research in the Global Context - Michael McDonald and Nina Preto
• 27 International Research - Volnei Garrafa
• 28 Ethical and Scientific Issues in Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Research - Kenneth Cornetta and Eric M. Meslin
• 29 Ethics of Screening - Kris Dierickx
• 30 Ethics of Clinical Telemedicine - Kenneth V. Iserson
• 31 Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: A Japanese Perspective - Tsuyoshi Awaya
• 32 Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology - Bert Gordijn, Rob de Vries and Dónal P. O'Mathúna
• 33 Ethics of Environmental Health - Michiel Korthals
• 34 Pharmaceuticals - Margit Sutrop and Kadri Simm