Bioethical prescriptions : to create, end, choose, and improve lives

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:Oxford ethics series.
Subjects:
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Bioethics
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics
Medicine > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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