The Routledge Companion to Bioethics

The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics. The volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by globalization, health disparities, and rapidly advancing technologies. Bioethics has begun a turn toward a systematic concern with social justice, population health, and public policy. While also covering more traditional topics, this volume fully captures this recent shift and foreshadows the resulting developments in bioethics. It highlights emerging issues such as climate change, transgender, and medical tourism, and re-examines enduring topics, such as autonomy, end-of-life care, and resource allocation.

John D. Arras is the Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics, and Professor of Philosophy and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

Elizabeth Fenton is a Research Analyst at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and a MPH, both from the University of Virginia, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program in Ethics and Health at Harvard University.

Rebecca Kukla is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and the former co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network.