Includes bibliographical references and index.

Law and bioethics : constructing the inter-discipline / Michael Freeman -- Bioethics : bridging from morality to law? / Roger Brownsword -- The troubled relationship between bioethics and human rights / Richard Ashcroft -- Law and bioethics : a rights-based relationship and its troubling implications / Daniel Sperling -- Health, global justice, and virtue bioethics / Katerina Sideri -- Law, human rights, and the bioethical discourse / Michael Freeman -- Magic, myths, and fairy tales : consent and the relationship between law and ethics / Alasdair R. Maclean -- Stem cell promises - rhetoric and reality / John Hearn -- Motivating values and regulatory models for emerging technologies : stem cell research regulation in Argentina and the United Kingdom / Shawn H.E. Harmon -- Cultures of life : embryo protection and the pluralist state / Patrick Hanafin -- Precautionary reasoning in determining moral worth / Stephen W. Smith -- Marketing masculinity : bioethics and sperm banking practices in the United States / Cynthia R. Daniels.

Bioethics and law in action - mining the gaps : the human genome research project / Mark Henaghan -- Synthetic biology and (re)productive liberties : biosecurity, biosecrecy, and regulating new technologies with futures in mind / Robin Mackenzie -- Exploring the routes from consultation to (in)forming public policy / Caroline Jones -- The donation of eggs for research and the rise of neopaternalism / Emily Jackson -- Regulating the reproductive revolution : ectogenesis - a regulatory minefield? / Amel Alghrani -- Surrogacy : is there room for a new liberty between the French prohibitive position and the English ambivalence? / Myriam Hunter-Henin -- Children with severe disabilities and their families : re-examining private responsibilities and public obligations from a caring perspective / Jo Bridgeman -- Nanomedicine - small particles, big issues : a new regulatory dawn for health care law and bioethics? / Jean V. McHale -- The place of carers / Jonathan Herring.

Gender inequalities in health research : an Australian perspective / Belinda Bennett, Isabel Karpin, Angela Ballantyne, and Wendy Rogers -- Pandemic planning and distributive justice in health care / Leslie P. Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson, and Charles B. Smith -- Humanitarian intervention and medical epidemics / Bruce M. Landesman -- The age of deference : a historical anomaly / Margaret Brazier.