Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics -- revised for publication in book form -- which have appeared over the last 25 years and which have made her among the most widely-respected philosophers working in this field.
Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics -- revised for publication in book form -- which have appeared over the last 25 years and which have made her among the most widely-respected philosophers working in this field.
F.M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at Harvard University. She is the author of The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts (2012), Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, and War (2011), Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm (2007), Morality, Mortality, Vol. I: Death and Whom to Save from It (1993) and Vol. II: Rights, Duties, and Status (1996), and Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy (1992), all from Oxford University Press.
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* 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 "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief" * 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 11 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
* 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 "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief" * 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 11 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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