Examines current issues in the field of bioethics by considering a number of developments in biomedical technology. Introduces the main streams of ethical theory used in contemporary bioethical debates, primarily utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and ethics of care, as a platform for philosophical discussion of a number of controversial bioethical issues. Addresses such issues as the doctrine of the sanctity of life and the concept of the person, brain death, organ transplant market, abortion, reproductive technologies, genetic enhancement and screening, cloning and euthanasia.