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