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Tables of Contents for Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Ethics versus Luck?
1
23
The myriad forms of luck
1
3
A preliminary typology of luck
4
3
Outcome luck: further considerations
7
4
Moral luck: how serious and genuine is the paradox?
11
3
Judgement from hindsight: Gauguin and Anna Karenina
14
5
Escaping from the paradox
19
5
The Fragility of Virtue and the Robust Health of Kantianism
24
22
Moral luck and virtue
24
5
The fragility of goodness
29
4
Kantianism and moral luck
33
13
Utilitarianism and Luck in Outcomes
46
19
Actual consequences
48
4
Potential consequences
52
7
Remorse and regret
59
6
Risk and Consent
65
21
The law of consent: prudent patient versus reasonable doctor
66
5
Remorse, responsibility and consent
71
2
Rationality and risk
73
3
How much is the doctor responsible for?
76
10
Death and Dying
86
18
Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and assisted suicide
87
8
Advance directives
95
9
Moral Luck and the Allocation of Health Care Resources
104
20
The `micro' level
105
10
Knowing our limits: the `macro' level
115
9
Reproductive Ethics: What Risks Can Women be Asked to Bear?
124
20
Risk, contract and `surrogacy'
124
13
Therapeutic and human cloning
137
7
Psychiatry and Risk
144
23
Risk and dangerousness: luck in outcomes
144
15
Luck in character
159
8
Luck, Genetics and Moral Character
167
20
Are genes us?
168
2
Genetics and luck in decisions to be faced
170
4
Genetics and luck in antecedent circumstances
174
7
Gauguin revisited: character, genetics and moral luck
181
6
Moral Luck and Global Ethics
187
26
Towards justice and virtue: O'Neill's account
197
6
Nussbaum and the capabilities approach
203
3
The final synthesis: feminism, global ethics and moral luck
206
7
Notes
213
28
Bibliography
241
21
Index
262