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This chapter provides background about the concept of bioethics and the history of the discipline, explaining the motivations for the book and outlining the subsequent chapters. A satisfactory work in bioethical theory, as we intend to provide, would accomplish three aims: (1) provide a high-quality discussion of ethical theory and methodology in ethics, (2) avoid the narrowness of normative vision that one finds in some theories (e.g., on hypothetical agreement in contract theory, on liberty in libertarianism, on moral rules in a rule-based approach), and (3) integrate areas of philosophical theory that are often neglected in theories of bioethics such as the nature of harm, the nature of well-being, models of moral status, personal identity theory, and the “nonidentity problem.”

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