Thieves of Virtue : When Bioethics Stole Medicine.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Necessity -- Organization -- Chapter 1. Dead Germans and Other Philosophers: Ethics as a Professional or a Public Occupation -- Bioethicists -- Foundation Myth -- Bioethics: Moral Folk Theory -- Evaluation and Standards -- Social Evaluations -- Chapter 2. Something Old: A Brief Review -- Hippocratic Ethics -- Medical Symbolism: The Caduceus -- Social Medicine -- Cholera: Economic and Social -- Medicine and the State -- The Unworthy Life -- Experimental Objects -- Nuremberg -- American Medicine -- 1950s Polio -- Futures -- Chapter 3. Something Newer: Supply-Side Ethics -- Organ Transplantation -- Scarcity as a Medical Condition -- Daniel Callahan -- Greedy Geezers -- The Malthusian Fallacy -- Scarcity -- Lifeboat Ethics -- Chapter 4. Lifeboat Ethics: Scarcity as an Unnatural State -- True Lies -- Sailings -- Lifeboat Choices -- Depositions -- Alexander William Holmes -- The Trial -- The Titanic -- Bioethics and the Lifeboat -- Scarcity Unbound -- Rebalanced Equations -- Scarcity Redux -- A Kantian Perspective -- Chapter 5. Biopolitics, Biophilosophies, and Bioethics -- Biopower -- Bioethics: The Eugenic Noun -- Bioethical Assessors -- Research: Subjects and Objects -- The Problem -- The Belmont Report -- Belmont : Principles -- Risk and Consent -- The Philosophical Flavor -- Managing Medicine -- The Physician: Stripped -- Paternalism -- Chapter 6. Principles of Biomedical Ethics -- The First 106 Words -- Traditional Ethics Critiqued -- The Twentieth Century -- Truthfulness, etc. -- "Professional Ethics" -- "The Philosophical Detour" -- Humanness -- Simplicities -- The Common Morality -- The Common Morality -- Chapter 7. Bioethics and Conformal Humans -- Disputants -- Differences -- Lots of Weird -- Rationality and Cognition -- The Human -- The Beautiful.

Kant and "The Beautiful" -- Down Syndrome -- Ethics, Redux -- Chapter 8. Research and Genetics: "For the Benefit of Humankind" -- New Sciences: Prehistory -- Genetics and the Knowledge Industry -- Docile Bodies -- An Excitable Public -- "The Therapeutic Misconception" -- Medicine as Research -- Eugenics Redux -- Intelligence -- Fungible Persons -- For the Betterment of Humankind -- Chapter 9. Choice, Freedom, and the Paternalism Thing -- Nancy Cruzan -- Bioethics and Paternalism -- The Economics of Ethics -- Choice as Freedom -- Another View -- Public Health and Ethics -- Chapter 10. Complex Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Medicine -- The Failure -- Alternatives -- A Secular Ethics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

An argument against the "lifeboat ethic" of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.

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