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| Genre/forme : | Collected Works |
|---|---|
| Type d’ouvrage : | Ressource Internet |
| Format : | Livre, Ressource Internet |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Helga Kuhse; Peter Singer |
| ISBN : | 1405129476 1405129484 9781405129473 9781405129480 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 61879724 |
| Notes : | Includes index. |
| Description : | xvii, 738 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contenu : | Abortion and health care ethics -- Abortion and infanticide -- A Defense of abortion -- Why abortion is immoral -- Are pregnant women fetal containers? -- The McCaughey septuplets: God's will or human choice? -- Surrogate mothering: exploitation or empowerment? -- A Response to Purdy -- The Right to Lesbian parenthood -- Rights, interests, and possible people -- Genetics and reproductive risk: can having children be immoral? -- Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion: a challenge to practice and policy -- Genetic technology: a threat to deafness -- Sex selection: the case for -- Conception to obtain hematopoietic stem cells -- Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors -- The Moral status of the cloning of humans -- Questions about some uses of genetic engineering -- Ethical issues in manipulating the human germ line -- The Moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics -- Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence? -- Lessons from a dark and distant past -- Patient autonomy and value-neutrality in nondirective genetic counseling -- Genetic dilemmas and the child's right to an open future -- The Sanctity of life -- Declaration on euthanasia -- The Morality of killing: a traditional view -- Active and passive euthanasia -- Is killing no worse than letting die? -- Why killing is not always worse -- and sometimes better -- than letting die. When care cannot cure: medical problems in seriously ill babies -- A Modern myth: that letting die is not the intentional causation of death -- The Abnormal child: moral dilemmas of doctors and parents -- Right to life of handicapped -- A Definition of irreversible coma -- Is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? -- Life past reason -- Dworkin on dementia: elegant theory, questionable policy -- The note -- When self-determination runs amok -- When abstract moralizing runs amok -- Listening and helping to die: the Dutch way -- Rescuing lives: can't we count? -- The Allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy -- Should alcoholics compete equally for liver transplantation? The Value of life -- How age should matter: justice as the basis for limiting care to the elderly -- Quality of life and resource allocation -- A Lifespan approach to health care -- Why give to strangers? -- Organ donation and retrieval: whose body is it anyway? -- The Case for allowing kidney sales -- The Survival lottery -- Ethics and clinical research -- Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research -- The Patient and the public good -- The Morality of clinical research: a case study -- Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries -- We're trying to help our sickest people, not exploit them -- Question of respect for life: what some [Australian] members of parliament have said about. embryonic stem cell research in parliament this week -- Stem cells, sex, and procreation -- Duties toward animals -- A Utilitarian view -- All animals are equal -- Vivisection, morals and medicine: an exchange -- Confidentiality in medicine: a decrepit concept -- On a supposed right to lie from altruistic motives -- Should doctors tell the truth? -- On telling patients the truth -- On liberty -- From Schloendorff v. New York Hospital -- Amputees by choice -- Abandoning informed consent -- Rational desires and the limitation of life-sustaining treatment -- The Doctor-patient relationship in different cultures -- Ethical dilemmas for nurses: physicans' orders versus patients' rights -- In defense of the traditional nurse -- When philosophers shoot from the hip -- Ethics consultation as moral engagement -- Truth or consequences: the role of philosophers in policy-making -- Should the decisions of ethics communities be based on community values? |
| Titre de collection : | Blackwell philosophy anthologies, 25. |
| Responsabilité : | edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer. |
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Résumé :
The expanded and revised edition of Bioethics: An Anthology is a definitive one-volume collection of key primary texts for the study of bioethics. * Brings together writings on a broad range of ethical issues relating such matters as reproduction, genetics, life and death, and animal experimentation.
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"The field of bioethics continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. One could hardly ask for a more thorough guide to where it has been, and what values and principles might steer where it is going, than this comprehensive and balanced volume." Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania "This is an outstanding, up-to-date collection which covers all the main issues in bioethics and brings together much of the best philosophical work on them." Dan W. Brock, Harvard Medical School "A useful tool to gain an overview of important an influential texts and thinking of leading authors and commentators in bioethics." Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics Lire la suite...
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