ABSTRACT

Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism: Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell features 15 original essays on bioethics, and healthcare ethics specifically. The volume is in honour of Professor Alastair V. Campbell, who was the founding editor of the internationally renowned Journal of Medical Ethics, and the founding director of three internationally leading centres in bioethics, in Otago, New Zealand, Bristol, UK, and Singapore.

Campbell was trained in theology and philosophy and throughout his career worked with colleagues from various disciplines, including law and various branches of healthcare. The diversity of topics and depth of contributors’ insights reflect the breadth and impact of Campbell’s philosophical work and policy contributions to healthcare ethics. Throughout his long academic career, Campbell’s emphasis on healthcare ethics being practice-oriented, yet driven by critical reflection, has shaped the field in vital ways.

The chapters are authored by leading scholars in healthcare ethics and law. Directly engaging with Campbell’s work and influence, the essays discuss essential questions in healthcare ethics relating to its methodology and teaching, its intersection with law and policy, medical professionalism, religion, and its translation in different cultural settings. Chapters also grapple with specific enduring topics, such as the doctor-patient relationship, justice in health and biomedical research, and treatment of the human body and the dead.

part I|2 pages

Introductions

chapter |8 pages

Alastair Vincent Campbell

Scholar, teacher, advocate, leader, friend and colleague

chapter |9 pages

An accidental ethicist

Reflections on my career in medical ethics 1

part II|2 pages

Healthcare ethics in theory

chapter 3|11 pages

Professional relationships

Covenant, virtue, and clinical life

part III|2 pages

Healthcare ethics in disciplinary contexts

chapter 4|15 pages

Healthcare ethics and theology

chapter 5|16 pages

In that (hard) case

Could ordinary talk in clinical care have an extraordinary moral importance?

chapter 6|19 pages

Human tissue

A story from a small state

part IV|2 pages

Healthcare ethics in cultural contexts

chapter 7|20 pages

‘Where our common language lies’

Virtues, embodiment and faith in global bioethics

chapter 8|17 pages

On the open seas

Pluralism and bioethics in Europe

part VI|2 pages

Health-related practices in ethical focus

chapter 13|17 pages

The dead human body

Reflections of an anatomist

chapter 14|14 pages

Ethics in research

An appraisal of Campbell’s remarks

chapter 15|13 pages

The republic of health

Motivating the republican turn in public health ethics