Bioethics at the Movies explores the ways in which popular films engage basic bioethical concepts and concerns. Twenty-one philosophically grounded essays use cinematic tools such as character and plot development, scene setting, and narrative framing to demonstrate a range of principles and topics in contemporary medical ethics. The first two sections plumb popular and bioethical thought on birth, abortion, genetic selection, and personhood through several films, including The Cider House Rules, Citizen Ruth, Gattaca, and I, Robot. In the third section, the contributors examine medical practice and troubling questions about the quality and commodification of life by way of Dirty Pretty Things, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and other movies. The fourth section's essays use Million Dollar Baby, Critical Care, Big Fish, and Soylent Green to show how the medical profession and society at large view issues related to aging, dying, and death. A final section makes use of Extreme Measures and select films from Spain and Japan to discuss two foundational matters in bioethics: the role of theories and principles in medicine and the importance of cultural context in devising care. Structured to mirror bioethics and cinema classes, this innovative work includes end-of-chapter questions for further consideration and contributions from scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Spain, and Australia. Contributors: Robert Arp, Ph.D., Michael C. Brannigan, Ph.D., Matthew Burstein, Ph.D., Antonio Casado da Rocha, Ph.D., Stephen Coleman, Ph.D., Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D., Bradley J. Fisher, Ph.D., Paul J. Ford, Ph.D., Helen Frowe, Ph.D., Colin Gavaghan, Ph.D., Richard Hanley, Ph.D., Nancy Hansen, Ph.D., Al-Yasha Ilhaam, Ph.D., Troy Jollimore, Ph.D., Amy Kind, Ph.D., Zana Marie Lutfiyya, Ph.D., Terrance McConnell, Ph.D., Andy Miah, Ph.D., Nathan Norbis, Ph.D., Kenneth Richman, Ph.D., Karen D. Schwartz, LL.B., M.A., Sandra Shapshay, Ph.D., Daniel Sperling, LL.M., S.J.D., Becky Cox White, R.N., Ph.D., Clark Wolf, Ph.D.
Show moreBioethics at the Movies explores the ways in which popular films engage basic bioethical concepts and concerns. Twenty-one philosophically grounded essays use cinematic tools such as character and plot development, scene setting, and narrative framing to demonstrate a range of principles and topics in contemporary medical ethics. The first two sections plumb popular and bioethical thought on birth, abortion, genetic selection, and personhood through several films, including The Cider House Rules, Citizen Ruth, Gattaca, and I, Robot. In the third section, the contributors examine medical practice and troubling questions about the quality and commodification of life by way of Dirty Pretty Things, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and other movies. The fourth section's essays use Million Dollar Baby, Critical Care, Big Fish, and Soylent Green to show how the medical profession and society at large view issues related to aging, dying, and death. A final section makes use of Extreme Measures and select films from Spain and Japan to discuss two foundational matters in bioethics: the role of theories and principles in medicine and the importance of cultural context in devising care. Structured to mirror bioethics and cinema classes, this innovative work includes end-of-chapter questions for further consideration and contributions from scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Spain, and Australia. Contributors: Robert Arp, Ph.D., Michael C. Brannigan, Ph.D., Matthew Burstein, Ph.D., Antonio Casado da Rocha, Ph.D., Stephen Coleman, Ph.D., Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D., Bradley J. Fisher, Ph.D., Paul J. Ford, Ph.D., Helen Frowe, Ph.D., Colin Gavaghan, Ph.D., Richard Hanley, Ph.D., Nancy Hansen, Ph.D., Al-Yasha Ilhaam, Ph.D., Troy Jollimore, Ph.D., Amy Kind, Ph.D., Zana Marie Lutfiyya, Ph.D., Terrance McConnell, Ph.D., Andy Miah, Ph.D., Nathan Norbis, Ph.D., Kenneth Richman, Ph.D., Karen D. Schwartz, LL.B., M.A., Sandra Shapshay, Ph.D., Daniel Sperling, LL.M., S.J.D., Becky Cox White, R.N., Ph.D., Clark Wolf, Ph.D.
Show moreBioethics at the Movies is a groundbreaking work that will enhance the teaching of bioethics in the humanities as well as in medical, nursing, and allied health. -- Thomas R. Cole, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
List of Contributors
Preface
Part I: On Babies, Test Tubes, and Sex the Old-Fashioned
way
Chapter 1. "I give Them What The Want – Either an Orphan or an
Abortion": The Cider House Rules and the Abortion Issues
Chapter 2. Reading Citizen Ruth Her Rights: Satire and Moral
Realism in the Abortion Debate
Chapter 3. Homo Sapiens, Robots, and Persons in I, Robot and
Bicentennial Man
Chapter 4. The Babe Vegetarians: Bioethics, Animal Minds, and Moral
Methodology
Part II: The Quest for "Better" or Even "the Same"
People
Chapter 5. "No Gene for Fate?": Luck, Harm, and Justice in
Gattaca
Chapter 6. Lifting the Genetic Veil of Ignorance: Is There Anything
Really Unjust About Gattacan Society?
Chapter 7. Multiplicity: A Study of Cloning and Personal
Identity
Chapter 8. Is Ignorance Bliss? Star Trek: Nemesis, Cloning, and the
Right to an Open Future
Part III: The Good Life
Chapter 9. "Blessed Are the Forgetful": The Ethics of Memory
Deletion in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Chapter 10. Hacking the Mind: Existential Enhancement in Ghost in
the Shell
Chapter 11. Commodification, Exploitation, and the Market for
Transplant Organs: A Discussion of Dirty Pretty Things
Chapter 12. "She's DNR!" "She's Research!": Conflicting
Role-Related Obligations in Wit
Part IV: Aging and the Good Death
Chapter 13. "He Just Got Old": Aging and Compassionate Care in
Dad
Chapter 14. False Images: Reframing the End-of-Life Portrayal of
Disability in Million Dollar Baby
Chapter 15. "I Can't Be Like This, Frankie, Not After What I've
Done": Million Dollar Baby and the Value of Human Lives
Chapter 16. Providing Critical Care for a Big Fish at the End of
Life: How Sidney Lumet and Tim Burton Cane Help Us Avoid Becoming
the Next Terri Schiavo
Chapter 17. The Thanatoria of Soylent Green: On Reconciling the
Good Life with the Good Death
Part V: The Role of Theory and Culture in Bioethics
Chapter 18. "If You Could Cure by Killing One Person, Wouldn't You
Have To Do That?" Utilitarianism and Deontology in Extreme
Measures
Chapter 19. Talk to Whom? Redefining Autonomy in Talk to Her
Chapter 20. Stars and Triangles: Controversial Bioethics in
Contemporary Spanish Film
Chapter 21. Ikiru and Net-Casting in Intercultural Bioethics
Index
Sandra Shapshay is an assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Philosophy and affiliate faculty at the Center for Bioethics at Indiana University.
A worthwhile addition to the core texts in the field of medical humanities. It is a valuable guide for teaching medical ethics and is worthy of a sequel. JAMA Should serve as a resource not only for teachers of bioethics courses but also for those engaged in understanding the relationship of the humanities to medicine and to bioethics... In addition, the book may prompt serious discussion of popular films that address complex topics and stories that have bioethical implications. -- Jeremy Sugarman Science Stimulating... each chapter has discussion questions that could be used equally well in the classroom or after watching a film at home with friends. -- James Paul Triple Helix The twenty-one essays, together with an excellent introduction by Shapshay, are a welcome addition to the bioethics literature, making up for some of the deficiencies of the usual case studies found in most bioethics text books. Most of the major distinctions, problems, and arguments which make up the field of bioethics are presented in uniformly well written essays typically focusing on a single film. Each essay is accompanied by study questions and excellent bibliographies. Metapsychology
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