The Best of Bioethics: Surrogate Decisionmaking and Other Matters

Abstract

The very richness of bioethics as a committedly interdisciplinary domain of inquiry raises a special problem: too many books, papers, and conferences; too little time to read, contemplate, and appreciate their contributions. Thus we asked scholars in contributing fields -- religious studies [James F. Childress], philosophy [Dan Brock], the life sciences [Marc Lappe], medicine [Lawrence J. Schneiderman], law [Greenlaw], and literary studies [Charles Radey] -- to share their thoughts on issues that have recently come to the fore, and to direct us to some of the literature we ought not to have missed.