Thieves of virtue : when bioethics stole medicine / Tom Koch.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012], ©2012.

xx, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dead Germans and other philosophers: ethics as a professional or public occupation -- Something old: a brief review -- Something newer: supply-side ethics -- Lifeboat ethics: scarcity as an unnatural state -- Biopolitics, biophilosophies, and bioethics -- Principles of biomedical ethics -- Bioethics and conformal humans -- Research and genetics: "for the benefit of humankind" -- Choice, freedom, and the paternalism thing -- Complex ethics: toward an ethics of medicine.