Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made her among the most influential philosophers in this area. Kamm is known for her intricate, sophisticated, and painstaking philosophical analyses of moral problems generally and of bioethical issues in particular. This volume showcases these articles -- revised to eliminate redundancies -- as parts of a coherent whole. A substantive introduction identifies important themes than run through the articles. Section headings include Death and Dying; Early Life (on conception and use of embryos, abortion, and childhood); Genetics and Other Enhancements (on cloning and other genetic technologies); Allocating Scarce Resources; and Methodology (on the relation of moral theory and practical ethics).
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1 Rescuing Ivan Ilych: How We Live and How We Die |
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2 Conceptual Issues Related to Ending Life |
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3 Problems with "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief" |
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4 Four-Step Arguments for Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia |
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5 Some Arguments by Velleman Concerning Suicide and Assisted Suicide |
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6 Brody on Active and Passive Euthanasia |
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7 A Note on Dementia and Advance Directives |
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8 Brain Death and Spontaneous Breathing |
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9 Using Human Embryos for Biomedical Research |
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137 | (15) |
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10 Ethical Issues in Using and Not Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
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152 | (13) |
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11 Ronald Dworkin's Views on Abortion |
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12 Creation and Abortion Short |
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13 McMahan on the Ethics of Killing at the Margins of Life |
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14 Some Conceptual and Ethical Issues in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy |
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Part Three Genetic and Other Enhancements |
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15 Genes, Justice, and Obligations in Creating People: Reflections on From Chance to Choice and on Views of Nagel, Shiffrin, and Singer |
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16 Moral Status, Personal Identity, and Substitutability: Clones, Embryos, and Future Generations |
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17 What Is and Is Not Wrong with Enhancement? Evaluating Sandel's Views |
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Part Four Allocating Scarce Resources |
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19 Health and Equality of Opportunity |
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20 Is It Morally Permissible to Discontinue Nonfutile Use of a Scarce Resource? |
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21 Aggregation, Allocating Scarce Resources, and Discrimination against the Disabled |
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22 Rationing and the Disabled: Several Proposals |
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23 Learning from Bioethics: Moral Issues in Rationing Medical and Nonmedical Scarce Resources |
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506 | (21) |
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24 The Philosopher as Insider and Outsider: How to Advise, Compromise, and Criticize |
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527 | (24) |
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25 Theory and Analogy In Law and Philosophy |
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26 Types of Relations between Theory and Practice: High Theory, Low Theory, and Applying Applied Ethics |
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27 Understanding, Justifying, and Finding Oneself |
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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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