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Philosophical medical ethics, its nature and significance : proceedings of the Third Trans-disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, held at Farmington, Connecticut, December 11-13, 1975
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Philosophical medical ethics, its nature and significance : proceedings of the Third Trans-disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, held at Farmington, Connecticut, December 11-13, 1975

Author: Stuart F Spicker; H Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher: Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., ©1977.
Series: Philosophy and medicine, v. 3.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : English
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Genre/Form: Farmington (Conn., 1975)
Congresses
Congrès
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stuart F Spicker; H Tristram Engelhardt
ISBN: 9027707723 9789027707727
OCLC Number: 2695099
Description: 252 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: American medical ethics : some historical roots / Chester R. Burns --
Do no harm : axiom of medical ethics / Albert R. Jonsen --
Discussion of "Do no harm" / Louis Lasagna --
Medical ethics : can the moral philosopher help? / Richard M. Hare --
Medical ethics and the rule against killing : comments on Professor Hare's paper / James Rachels --
Euthanasia and the right to life / Marvin Kohl --
Euthanasia, the right to life, and moral structures : a reply to Professor Kohl / John Troyer --
Experimentation and consent : a note / Sidney Morgenbesser --
Medical experimentation : the consent of prisoners and children / Natalie Abrams --
Aristotelian ethics, medicine, and the changing nature of men / Joseph Owens --
Medicine's influence on ethics : reflections on the putative moral role of medicine / Stuart F. Spicker --
Ethics in evolution / Bernard Towers --
Coming into being and passing away : can the metaphysician help? / Roderick M. Chisholm --
Some persons are humans, some humans are persons, and the world is what we persons make of it / H. Tristram Engelhardt --
Patients as agents / Alasdair Macintyre --
Moral agency and professional ethics : some notes on transformation of the physician-patient encounter / Edmund D. Pellegrino --
The physician as moral agent : round table discussion / Stuart F. Spicker ... [et al.]
Series Title: Philosophy and medicine, v. 3.
Responsibility: edited by Stuart F. Spicker and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

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