| | | Document Type | : | BL | | Record Number | : | 102701 | | Doc. No | : | b59898 | | Main Entry | : | Kamm, F. M., (Frances Myrna) | | Title & Author | : | Bioethical prescriptions :to create, end, choose, and improve lives /F.M. Kamm. | | Series Statement | : | Oxford ethics series | | Page. NO | : | xlv, 599 pages ;25 cm. | | ISBN | : | 9780199971985 (hbk. : alk. paper) | | | 0199971986 (hbk. : alk. paper) | | | 9780199971992 (updf) | | | 0199971994 (updf) | | Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references and index. | | 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. | | Subject | : | Medical ethics. | | Subject | : | Bioethics. | | Subject | : | Medicine-- Philosophy. | | Subject | : | Human experimentation in medicine-- Moral and ethical aspects. | | Subject | : | Bioethics. | | Subject | : | Human experimentation in medicine-- Moral and ethical aspects. | | Subject | : | Medical ethics. | | Subject | : | Medicine-- Philosophy. | | Dewey Classification | : | 174.2 | | LC Classification | : | R724.K25 2013 | | Parallel Title | : | To create, end, choose, and improve lives |
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