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Informationen zum Autor John Harris is the Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, and Research Director for Social Ethics and Policy at the University of Manchester Klappentext Framed with a substantial introduction by renowned scholar John Harris, this enlightening work brings together key articles on biomedical ethics over recent years. Harris also provides detailed overviews of each piece included in the volume. Covering a fascinating range of subjects, it explores areas such as the beginning of life, the end of life, the quality of life, future generations, and professional ethics. It not only will appeal to philosophy students and researchers interested in practical ethics, bioethics or medical ethics but also anyone who cares about health care. Zusammenfassung Framed with a substantial introduction by the editor, this new book brings together the key articles written on bioethics over recent years. Subjects covered include the beginnings of life, the end of life, quality of life, value of life, future generations, and professional ethics. Introduction; BEGINNINGS OF LIFE; 1. A Defence of Abortion; 2. Killing and Letting Die; 3. Abortion: Identity and Loss; END OF LIFE; 4. Terminating Life-Sustaining Treatment of the Demented; 5. Which Way Down the Slippery Slope? Nazi Medical Killing and Euthanaisa Today; 6. Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem; THE VALUE OF LIFE; 7. What is Sacred?; 8. Taking and Saving Lives; ALLOCATION OF SCARCE RESOURCES AND QUALITY OF LIFE; 9. The Survival Lottery; 10. Health-Care Needs and Distributive Justice; 11. Equality or Priority?; 12. Quality of Life Measures in Health Care and Medical Ethics; FUTURE GENERATIONS; 13. Future People, Disability and Screening; 14. Wrongful Life: Paradoxes in the Morality of Causing People to Exist; PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; 15. Principalism and its Alleged Competitors; 16. Not Just Autonomy - the Principles of American Biomedical Ethics; 17. Telling the Truth, Confidentiality, Consent and Respect for Autonomy; Notes on Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index of Names...
