Bioethical prescriptions to create, end, choose, and improve lives F. M. Kamm
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford ethics seriesPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013Description: xlv, 599 pages 25 cmISBN:- 9780199971985
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; Part I Death and Dying ; Chapter 1 Rescuing Ivan Ilych: How We Live and How We Die ; Chapter 2 Conceptual Issues Related to Ending Life ; Chapter 3 Problems with " ; Chapter 4 Four-Step Arguments for Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia ; Chapter 5 Some Arguments by Velleman Concerning Suicide and Assisted Suicide ; Chapter 6 Brody on Active and Passive Euthanasia ; Chapter 7 A Note on Dementia and Advance Directives ; Chapter 8 Brain Death and Spontaneous Breathing ; Part II Young Life ; Chapter 9 Using Human Embryos for Biomedical Research ; Chapter 10 Ethical Issues in Using and Not Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells ; Chapter 1 Ronald Dworkin's Views on Abortion ; Chapter 12 Creation and Abortion Short ; Chapter 13 McMahan on the Ethics of Killing at the Margins of Life ; Chapter 14 Some Conceptual and Ethical Issues in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy ; Part III Genetic and Other Enhancements ; Chapter 15 Genes, Justice, and Obligations to Future People ; Chapter 16 Moral Status, Personal Identity, and Substitutability: Clones, Embryos, and Future Generations ; Chapter 17 What Is and Is Not Wrong with Enhancement ; Part IV Allocating Scarce Resources ; Chapter 18 Health and Equity ; Chapter 19 Health and Equality of Opportunity ; Chapter 20 Is it Morally Permissible to Discontinue NonFutile Use of a Scarce Resource? ; Chapter 21 Aggregation, Allocating Scarce Resources, and Discrimination Against the Disabled ; Chapter 22 Rationing and the Disabled: Several Proposals ; Chapter 23 Learning from Bioethics: Moral Issues in Rationing Non-Medical Scarce Resources ; Part V Methodology ; Chapter 24 The Philosopher as Insider and Outsider ; Chapter 25 Theory and Analogy ; Chapter 26 Relations between High Theory, Low Theory, and Applying Applied Ethics ; Chapter 27 Understanding, Justifying, and Finding Oneself ; Index
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