Bioethics / edited by John Harris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Oxford readings in philosophyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: vi, 557 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0198752571
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • R726 .B485 2001
Contents:
A defence of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Killing and letting die / Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer -- Abortion: identity and loss / Warren Quinn -- Terminating life-sustaining treatment of the demented / Daniel Callahan -- Which way down the slippery slope? Nazi medical killing and euthanasia today / Ruth Macklin -- Advance directives and the personal identity problem / Allen Buchanan -- What is sacred? / Ronald Dworkin -- Taking and saving lives / Eric Rakowski -- The survival lottery / John Harris -- Health-care needs and distributive justice / Norman Daniels -- Equality or priority? / Derek Parfit -- Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics / Dan Brock -- Future people, disability, and screening / Jonathan Glover -- Wrongful life: paradoxes in the morality of causing people to exist / Jeff McMahan -- Principlism and its alleged competitors / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Not just autonomy: the principles of American biomedical ethics / Sr��?�en Holm -- Telling the truth, confidentiality, consent, and respect for autonomy / Raanan Gillon.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection R 726 .B485 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98623317

Includes bibliographical references (p. [534]-547) and index.

A defence of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Killing and letting die / Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer -- Abortion: identity and loss / Warren Quinn -- Terminating life-sustaining treatment of the demented / Daniel Callahan -- Which way down the slippery slope? Nazi medical killing and euthanasia today / Ruth Macklin -- Advance directives and the personal identity problem / Allen Buchanan -- What is sacred? / Ronald Dworkin -- Taking and saving lives / Eric Rakowski -- The survival lottery / John Harris -- Health-care needs and distributive justice / Norman Daniels -- Equality or priority? / Derek Parfit -- Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics / Dan Brock -- Future people, disability, and screening / Jonathan Glover -- Wrongful life: paradoxes in the morality of causing people to exist / Jeff McMahan -- Principlism and its alleged competitors / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Not just autonomy: the principles of American biomedical ethics / Sr��?�en Holm -- Telling the truth, confidentiality, consent, and respect for autonomy / Raanan Gillon.

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