Bioethical prescriptions : to create, end, choose, and improve lives / F.M. Kamm.

'Bioethical Prescriptions' collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made her among the most influential philosophers in this area. Kamm is known for her intricate, sophisticated and painstaking philosophical analyse...

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Main Author: Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:Oxford ethics series.
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505 0 |a Rescuing Ivan Ilych : how we live and how we die -- Conceptual issues related to ending life -- Problems with "assisted suicide: the philosopher's brief" -- Four-step arguments for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia -- Some arguments by Velleman concerning suicide and assisted suicide -- Brody on active and passive euthanasia -- A note on dementia and advance directives -- Brain death and spontaneous breathing -- Using human embryos for biomedical research -- Ethical issues in using and not using human embryonic stem cells -- Ronald Dworkin's views on abortion -- Creation and abortion short -- McMahan on the ethics of killing at the margins of life -- Some conceptual and ethical issues in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy -- Genes, justice, and obligations to future people : reflections on From chance to choice and on views of Nagel, Shiffrin, and Singer -- Moral status, personal Identity, and substitutability : clones, embryos, and future generations -- What is and is not wrong with enhancement? Evaluating Sandel's views -- Health and equity -- Health and equality of opportunity -- Is it morally permissible to discontinue nontutile use of a scarce resource? -- Aggregation, allocating scarce resources, and discrimination against the disabled -- Rationing and the disabled : several proposals -- Learning from bioethics : moral issues in rationing non-medical scarce resources -- The philosopher as insider and outsider : how to advise, compromise, and criticize -- Theory and analogy in law and philosophy -- Types of relations between theory and practice : high theory, low theory, and applying applied ethics -- Understanding, justifying, and finding oneself. 
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