Samuel J Kerstein

How to Treat Persons

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Produktbeschreibung

Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means. He explores how Kantian principles on the dignity of persons shed light on pressing issues in modern bioethics, including the distribution of scarce medical resources and the regulation of markets in organs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199692033
• ISBN-10: 0199692033
• Artikelnr.: 36539706

Autorenporträt

Samuel Kerstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. The author of Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality, he has written many articles on Kant's ethics, Kantian moral principles, and topics in bioethics including the morality of markets in human organs and the fair distribution of scarce, life-saving resources. Kerstein has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and at the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
Part I: Principles
2: Death, Dignity, And Respect
3: The Mere Means Principle
4: Treating Consenting Adults Merely as Means
5: Dignity and the Mere Means Principle
Part II: Practice
6: Allocation of Scarce, Life-Saving Resources
7: Markets in Kidneys
8: Medical Research
Bibliography
Index