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Morality, mortality. Vol. 2, Rights, duties, and status / F.M. Kamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna), author.
- Series:
- Oxford ethics series.
- Oxford ethics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Terminal care.
- Death.
- Life support systems (Critical care).
- Ethics, Medical.
- Life Support Care.
- Terminal Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Ethics, Medical.
- Life Support Care.
- Terminal Care.
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 389 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Rights, duties, and status
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Critically examining other philosophers ideas, the author of this work explores the thinking behind the distribution of scarce resources, such as transplant organs.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Killing and Letting Die: Methodology of Comparable Cases and Conceptions of Moral Equivalence
- Killing and Letting Die: Arguments for Inequivalence and the Problem of Contextual Interaction
- Objections and Conceptions of Moral Equivalence
- Killing and Letting Die in Standardly Equalized Cases
- Harming, Not Aiding, and Positive Rights
- Pt. 2. The Trolley Problem
- Harming Some to Save Others
- Pt. 3. Prerogatives and Restrictions
- Constraints and You
- Constraining Rights and the Value of Status
- Agreements
- Supererogation, Obligation, and Intransitivity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987099-3
- 0-19-514402-3
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