Bioethics at the movies

Pt. 1. On Babies, Test Tubes, and Sex the Old-Fashioned Way

1. "I Give Them What They Want - Either an Orphan or an Abortion": The Cider House Rules and the Abortion Issue / Robert Arp

2. Reading Citizen Ruth Her Rights: Satire and Moral Realism in the Abortion Debate / Al-Yasha Ilhaam

3. Homo Sapiens, Robots, and Persons in /, Robot and Bicentennial Man / Stephen Coleman and Richard Hanley

4. Babe Vegetarians: Bioethics, Animal Minds, and Moral Methodology / Nathan Nobis

Pt. 2. Quest for "Better" or Even "the Same" People

5. "No Gene for Fate?": Luck, Harm, and Justice in Gattaca / Colin Gavaghan

6. Lifting the Genetic Veil of Ignorance: Is There Anything Really Unjust about Gattacan Society? / Sandra Shapshay

7. Multiplicity: A Study of Cloning and Personal Identity / Troy Jollimore and Becky Cox White

8. Is Ignorance Bliss? Star Trek: Nemesis, Cloning, and the Right to an Open Future / Amy Kind

Pt. 3. Good Life

9. "Blessed Are the Forgetful": The Ethics of Memory Deletion in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Andy Miah

10. Hacking the Mind: Existential Enhancement in Ghost in the Shell / Paul J. Ford

11. Commodification, Exploitation, and the Market for Transplant Organs: A Discussion of Dirty Pretty Things / Clark Wolf

12. "She's DNR!" "She's Research!": Conflicting Role-Related Obligations in Wit / Terrance McConnell

Pt. 4. Aging and the Good Death

13. "He Just Got Old": Aging and Compassionate Care in Dad / Bradley J. Fisher and Sandra Shapshay

14. False Images: Reframing the End-of-Life Portrayal of Disability in Million Dollar Baby / Zana Marie Lutfiyya, Karen D. Schwartz and Nancy Hansen

15. "I Can't Be Like This, Frankie, Not After What I've Done": Million Dollar Baby and the Value of Human Lives / Helen Frowe

16. Providing Critical Care for a Big Fish at the End of Life: How Sidney Lumet and Tim Burton Can Help Us Avoid Becoming the Next Terri Schiavo / Kenneth Richman

17. Thanatoria of Soylent Green: On Reconciling the Good Life with the Good Death / Matthew Burstein

Pt. 5. Role of Theory and Culture in Bioethics

18. "If You Could Cure Cancer by Killing One Person, Wouldn't You Have to Do That?": Utilitarianism and Deontology in Extreme Measures / Jason T. Eberl

19. Talk to Whom? Redefining Autonomy in Talk to Her / Daniel Sperling

20. Stars and Triangles: Controversial Bioethics in Contemporary Spanish Film / Antonio Casado da Rocha

21. Ikiru and Net-Casting in Intercultural Bioethics / Michael C. Brannigan.