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" Bioethical prescriptions : "
F.M. Kamm.
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BL
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102701
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b59898
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Kamm, F. M., (Frances Myrna)
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Bioethical prescriptions : : to create, end, choose, and improve lives /\ F.M. Kamm.
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Oxford ethics series
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xlv, 599 pages ;; 25 cm.
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9780199971985 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0199971986 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780199971992 (updf)
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: 0199971994 (updf)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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
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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.
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Medical ethics.
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Bioethics.
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Medicine-- Philosophy.
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Human experimentation in medicine-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Bioethics.
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Human experimentation in medicine-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medical ethics.
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Medicine-- Philosophy.
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174.2
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R724.K25 2013
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| Parallel Title
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To create, end, choose, and improve lives
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