The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics

Issues like stem cell research and physician‐assisted death, treatment for the mentally ill and biological enhancement are ever more widely discussed in both the professional (medical and nursing and research) literature and in the popular media. It is a sign of how fast‐moving the field of medical ethics is, and how, since the 1970s on a global stage, medical ethics has widened its scope into “bioethics” to take in policy and environment, theology and law. At its heart, however, remain a core of complex, subtle and morally testing choices and balances and dilemmas, and these come through in many ways...