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Bioethical prescriptions : to create, end, choose, and improve lives / F.M. Kamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna), author.
- Series:
- Oxford ethics series.
- Oxford ethics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bioethics.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Medical ethics.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Bioethical Issues.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Human Experimentation--ethics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Bioethical Issues.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Human Experimentation--ethics.
- Bioethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 599 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- To create, end, choose, and improve lives
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- '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 analyses of moral problems generally and of bioethical issues in particular. This volume showcases these articles - revised to eliminate redundancies - as parts of a coherent whole.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-064961-5
- 0-19-934614-3
- 0-19-997199-4
- OCLC:
- 864714710
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