InhaltsangabeIntroduction;Contingency of Life and the Ethical. The value of natural contingency, Siep, Ludwig; Between natural necessity and ethical contingency, Adanali, Ahmet Hadi; Of poststructuralist ethics and nomadic subjects, Braidotti, Rosi; Genetics, a practical anthropology, Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph; Science, religion, and contingency, Mieth, Dietmar. Ethical Theories and the Limits of Life Sciences. Bioethics and the normative concept of human selfhood, Honnefelder, Ludger; Human cognitive vulnerability and the moral status of the human embryo and foetus, Beyleveld, Deryck; Needs and the metaphysics of rights, Baertschi, Bernard; The authority of desire in medicine, Kettner, Matthias; Procreative needs and rights, Campagna, Norbert; Needs, capacities and morality, Düwell, Marcus; Moral judgement and moral reasoning, Musschenga, Albert W; Philosophical reflection on bioethics and limits, van Willigenburg, Theo. Cases of Limits. Finite lives and unlimited medical aspirations, Callahan, Daniel; Reproductive choice: Whose Rights? Whose Freedom?Almond, Brenda; Assisted reproduction and the changing of the human body, Mori, Maurizio On the limits of liberal bioethics: A 'Critical Ethics of Responsibility' approach, Haker, Hille; The human embryo as clinical tool, McLean, Sheila A.M.; The naked Emperor; Bioethics today and tomorrow, Korthals, Michiel. Abilities and Disabilities. Disability: Suffering, social oppression, or complex predicament, Shakespeare, Tom; Disability and moral philosophy, Graumann, Sigrid; Neuroprosthetics, Anderson, Joel. Others' Views: Intercultural Perspectives. Normative relations. East Asian perspectives on biomedicine and bioethics, Becker, Gerhold K; Limits of human existence according to China's bioethics, Döring, Ole; There is the world, and there is the map of the world. The ethics of basic research, Zoloth, Laurie;Reflections on human dignity and the Israeli debate, Shalev, Carmel; Conceiving of human life, Yudin, Boris; Globalization and the dynamic role of human rights, Romeo-Casabona, Carlos M.