Bioethical Responsibilities in Twenty-First Century Crises

Elizabeth Lanphier, Larry R. Churchill

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN: 9798216201328
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Filosofía
• Subtopic: Ética en medicina

Bioethical Responsibilities in Twenty-First Century Crises argues for an expanded role and scope for the field of bioethics to tackle the pressing challenges confronting health and healthcare now and on the horizon. The diverse chapters in this collection, edited by Elizabeth Lanphier and Larry R. Churchill, address the need for new bioethical methods, attention to overlooked difference, responding to climate change, and charting new identities for and within bioethics. Taken as a whole, this volume shows how bioethics, with its core commitment to justice, needs to update its tools and attention to realize justice in the twenty-first century. This includes better understanding of and responding to the ways that structural inequities and intersectional oppression impact not only individual medical care and healthcare access, health policy, or research priorities and participation, but also individual and community contributions to and vulnerability from climate change, and the impact social and political choices have on health and well-being.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Bringing Current Practice into the Future
• Chapter 1: Bioethics in the Current Climate: Attending to Identity-Forming Feelings and Knowledge Production
• Chapter 2: The Wary Relationship between Bioethics and Public Engagement
• Chapter 3: Dialogue as the Medium and Goal of Bioethics
• Chapter 4: The Future of Bioethics, Reconsidered
• Part II: Witnessing Difference and Responding to Vulnerability
• Chapter 5: Othering, Recognition, and Health Justice
• Chapter 6: Bioethics and Incarceration
• Chapter 7: Toward a Phenomenology of Aging: Implications for Bioethics
• Chapter 8: What Is Past Is Prologue: Searching for Social Justice Advocacy in Bioethics
• Part III: Bioethics Response to Global Warming
• Chapter 9: Bioethics for a World on Fire
• Chapter 10: The Early Ethics of Planetary Health
• Chapter 11: Can Ethical Input into Policy Advance Environmental Sustainability?
• Chapter 12: The Necessity of Fusing Bioethics and Geoethics: An Ecointersectional Approach
• Part IV: New Tools and Visions for Bioethics
• Chapter 13: The Science and Skill of Facing Change: Implications for Bioethicists
• Chapter 14: Probing the Social Determinants of Health: Where Bioethics Is Heading
• Chapter 15: The Citational Tyranny of Bioethics
• Chapter 16: Visionary Bioethics: A Biopolitical Approach to Bioethical Inquiry
• Index
• About the Contributors