Table of Contents

1: On why medical ethics is exciting
2: Assisted dying: good medical practice, or murder?
3: A toolbox of reasoning
4: People who don't exist; at least not yet
5: Inconsistencies about madness
6: Ethics helps the helper
7: Establishing fair procedure
8: How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality
9: Culture and consent
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Tony Hope recently retired as Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He developed the teaching in medical ethics at the University of Oxford and founded the Ethox Centre, a world-class centre in medical ethics research within the medical faculty at Oxford. He is also Emeritus Fellow at St Cross College, Oxford. In addition to over 200 research papers he has co-authored a number of books including a general textbook of medicine, a self-help
psychology book, and several books in medical ethics and law. Michael Dunn is a lecturer at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, where he also acts as the Director of Undergraduate Medical Ethics and Law
Education within the Clinical School. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, an Editorial Board member for Ethics and Social Welfare, and a member of both research ethics committees and clinical ethics committees across the UK. Michael has published two co-edited books in addition to being the author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers and chapters in the fields of bioethics, medical, social welfare and family law, and health/social services research.