Bioethics at the movies

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Bioethics at the movies

edited by Sandra Shapshay

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Bioethics at the Movies explores the ways in which popular films engage basic bioethical concepts and concerns. Twenty-one philosophically grounded essays use cinematic tools such as character and plot development, scene setting, and narrative framing to demonstrate a range of principles and topics in contemporary medical ethics. The first two sections plumb popular and bioethical thought on birth, abortion, genetic selection, and personhood through several films, including The Cider House Rules, Citizen Ruth, Gattaca, and I, Robot. In the third section, the contributors examine medical practice and troubling questions about the quality and commodification of life by way of Dirty Pretty Things, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and other movies. The fourth section's essays use Million Dollar Baby, Critical Care, Big Fish, and Soylent Green to show how the medical profession and society at large view issues related to aging, dying, and death. A final section makes use of Extreme Measures and select films from Spain and Japan to discuss two foundational matters in bioethics: the role of theories and principles in medicine and the importance of cultural context in devising care. Structured to mirror bioethics and cinema classes, this innovative work includes end-of-chapter questions for further consideration and contributions from scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Spain, and Australia. Contributors: Robert Arp, Ph.D., Michael C. Brannigan, Ph.D., Matthew Burstein, Ph.D., Antonio Casado da Rocha, Ph.D., Stephen Coleman, Ph.D., Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D., Bradley J. Fisher, Ph.D., Paul J. Ford, Ph.D., Helen Frowe, Ph.D., Colin Gavaghan, Ph.D., Richard Hanley, Ph.D., Nancy Hansen, Ph.D., Al-Yasha Ilhaam, Ph.D., Troy Jollimore, Ph.D., Amy Kind, Ph.D., Zana Marie Lutfiyya, Ph.D., Terrance McConnell, Ph.D., Andy Miah, Ph.D., Nathan Norbis, Ph.D., Kenneth Richman, Ph.D., Karen D. Schwartz, LL.B., M.A., Sandra Shapshay, Ph.D., Daniel Sperling, LL.M., S.J.D., Becky Cox White, R.N., Ph.D., Clark Wolf, Ph.D.

目次

List of Contributors Preface Part I: On Babies, Test Tubes, and Sex the Old-Fashioned way Chapter 1. "I give Them What The Want - Either an Orphan or an Abortion": The Cider House Rules and the Abortion Issues Chapter 2. Reading Citizen Ruth Her Rights: Satire and Moral Realism in the Abortion Debate Chapter 3. Homo Sapiens, Robots, and Persons in I, Robot and Bicentennial Man Chapter 4. The Babe Vegetarians: Bioethics, Animal Minds, and Moral Methodology Part II: The Quest for "Better" or Even "the Same" People Chapter 5. "No Gene for Fate?": Luck, Harm, and Justice in Gattaca Chapter 6. Lifting the Genetic Veil of Ignorance: Is There Anything Really Unjust About Gattacan Society? Chapter 7. Multiplicity: A Study of Cloning and Personal Identity Chapter 8. Is Ignorance Bliss? Star Trek: Nemesis, Cloning, and the Right to an Open Future Part III: The Good Life Chapter 9. "Blessed Are the Forgetful": The Ethics of Memory Deletion in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Chapter 10. Hacking the Mind: Existential Enhancement in Ghost in the Shell Chapter 11. Commodification, Exploitation, and the Market for Transplant Organs: A Discussion of Dirty Pretty Things Chapter 12. "She's DNR!" "She's Research!": Conflicting Role-Related Obligations in Wit Part IV: Aging and the Good Death Chapter 13. "He Just Got Old": Aging and Compassionate Care in Dad Chapter 14. False Images: Reframing the End-of-Life Portrayal of Disability in Million Dollar Baby Chapter 15. "I Can't Be Like This, Frankie, Not After What I've Done": Million Dollar Baby and the Value of Human Lives Chapter 16. Providing Critical Care for a Big Fish at the End of Life: How Sidney Lumet and Tim Burton Cane Help Us Avoid Becoming the Next Terri Schiavo Chapter 17. The Thanatoria of Soylent Green: On Reconciling the Good Life with the Good Death Part V: The Role of Theory and Culture in Bioethics Chapter 18. "If You Could Cure by Killing One Person, Wouldn't You Have To Do That?" Utilitarianism and Deontology in Extreme Measures Chapter 19. Talk to Whom? Redefining Autonomy in Talk to Her Chapter 20. Stars and Triangles: Controversial Bioethics in Contemporary Spanish Film Chapter 21. Ikiru and Net-Casting in Intercultural Bioethics Index

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