Bioethics : a philosophical introduction / Stephen Holland.

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub., [2003], ©2003.

vi, 232 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-217) and index.

Pt. 1: Moral status -- Stem cell therapy -- Xenotransplantation -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 2: Life, death and killing -- The value of life -- What is death? -- Killing versus letting die -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 3: Personal identity -- Prenatal genetic intervention -- Advance directives -- Concluding remarks -- Pt. 4: The normativity of the 'natural' -- Managing reproduction -- Genetic enhancement -- Human cloning -- Concluding remarks -- Concluding remark: Deontic constraints on biomedicine.