Bioethical Responsibilities in Twenty-First Century Crises

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.

Elizabeth Lanphier is assistant professor in the Ethics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA.
Larry R. Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics Emeritus, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA

Editors' Introduction - Elizabeth Lanphier and Larry R. Churchill
Bringing Current Practice into the Future
1. Bioethicists in the Current Climate: Attending to Identify-Forming Feeling and Knowledge Production - Lisa S. Parker
2. The Wary Relationship Between Bioethics and Public Engagement - Gregory E. Kaebnick
3. Dialogue as the Medium and Goal of Bioethics - Arthur W. Frank
4. The Future of Bioethics, Reconsidered - Howard A. Brody
Witnessing Difference and Responding to Vulnerability
5. Othering, Recognition, and Health Justice - Nancy M. P. King
6. Bioethics and Incarceration - Takunda Matose and Elizabeth Lanphier
7. Toward a Phenomenology of Aging: Implications for Bioethics - Larry R. Churchill and David Schenck
8. What is Past is Prologue: Searching for Social Justice Advocacy in Bioethics - Virginia A. Brown
Bioethics Response to Global Warming
9. Bioethics for a World on Fire - Travis N. Rieder
10. The Early Ethics of Planetary Health - Stephen M. Gardiner and Paul Tubig
11. Can Ethical Input into Policy Enhance Environmental Sustainability? - Cheryl C. Macpherson and Katharine Wright
12. The Necessity of Fusing Bioethics and Geoethics: An Ecointersectional Approach - Nancy Tuana
New Tools and Visions for Bioethics
13. The Science and Skill of Facing Change: Implications for Bioethicists - Marion Danis and Hollen N. Reischer
14. Probing the Social Determinants of Health: Where Bioethics is Heading - Gail E. Henderson
15. The Citational Tyranny of Bioethics - Johnathan Flowers
16. Visionary Bioethics: A Biopolitical Approach to Bioethical Inquiry - Leah Lomotey-Nakon
About the Contributors