Laura K. Guidry-Grimes is Associate Staff Bioethicist at the Cleveland Clinic with faculty appointments at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University. She provides clinical ethics consultation and teaches bioethics to practitioners, trainees, and students across disciplines. She co-authored the fourth edition of The Basics of Bioethics (2019) and co-edited Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World (with Elizabeth Victor, 2021) and Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics (with Jamie Carlin Watson, 2018).

Robert M. Veatch, before his passing in 2020, was Senior Research Scholar and Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus, and former Director at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. While co-author to previous editions of The Basics of Bioethics, he also authored, co-authored, or edited 60 additional books, including Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics (2012), Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics (with Amy Haddad and Dan English, 2015), Transplantation Ethics (with Lainie F. Ross, 2015), and Defining Death: The Case for Choice (with Lainie F. Ross, 2016).

1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics 2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History 3. The Basis of Moral Status in Debates on Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare 4. Principle-Based Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics 5. Alternative Approaches: Virtues, Casuistry, Narrative Ethics, Feminist Ethics, Care Ethics, and Disability Ethics 6. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm 7. The Ethics of Respect for Persons 8. The Principle of Avoiding Killing 9. The Ethics of Deciding on Behalf of Another 10. Human Control of Life: Genetics and Modifying Human Nature 11. Reproductive Choice and Technologies: Ethical Challenges in the Creation of Humans 12. Social Ethics of Medicine: Utility Measures, Healthcare Systems, Transplantation, and Research Involving Human Participants 13 Public Health in Crisis: Emergency Planning and Triage Appendix.