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Bioethical prescriptions : to create, end, choose, and improve lives
Author
Title
Bioethical prescriptions : to create, end, choose, and improve lives / F.M. Kamm.
ISBN
9780199971985
0199971986
9780199971992
0199971994
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xlv, 599 pages ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2016
Series
Oxford ethics series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Rescuing Ivan Ilych
Conceptual issues related to ending life
Problems with "assisted suicide
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
Moral status, personal Identity, and substitutability
What is and is not wrong with enhancement?
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
Learning from bioethics
The philosopher as insider and outsider
Theory and analogy in law and philosophy
Types of relations between theory and practice
Understanding, justifying, and finding oneself.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Bioethical Issues.
Genetic Enhancement - ethics.
Ethics, Research.
Genre/Form
Collected Works.
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