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Zusatztext F.M. Kamm's latest book has something in common with good psychological thrillers: plenty of unexpected twists and turns. They surprise you at first, but in the end you appreciate the author's design...The essays in BP grip the reader more firmly because the discussion is usually anchored in a concrete bioethical issue and each essay stands on its own...You have to read the book. It is profoundly thought-provoking - as painstakingly careful a work of applied ethics as I have found...I invite readers to discover for themselves the extraordinary twists and turns of Bioethical Prescriptions. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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). Zusammenfassung Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics -- revised for publication in book form -- which have appeared over the last 25 years and which have made her among the most widely-respected philosophers working in this field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Acknowledgments Part I: Death and Dying Chapter 1 Rescuing Ivan Ilych: How We Live and How We Die Chapter 2 Conceptual Issues Related to Ending Life Chapter 3 Problems with "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief" Chapter 4 Four-Step Arguments for Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Chapter 5 Some Arguments by Velleman Concerning Suicide and Assisted Suicide Chapter 6 Brody on Active and Passive Euthanasia Chapter 7 A Note on Dementia and Advance Directives Chapter 8 Brain Death and Spontaneous Breathing Part II: Young Life Chapter 9 Using Human Embryos for Biomedical Research Chapter 10 Ethical Issues in Using and Not Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Chapter 11 Ronald Dworkin's Views on Abortion Chapter 12 Creation and Abortion Short Chapter 13 McMahan on the Ethics of Killing at the Margins of Life Chapter 14 Some Conceptual and Ethical Issues in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Part III: Genetic and Other Enhancements Chapter 15 Genes, Justice, and Obligations to Future People Chapter 16 Moral Status, Personal Identity, and Substitutability: Clones, Embryos, and Future Generations Chapter 17 What Is and Is Not Wrong with Enhancement Part IV: Allocating Scarce Resources Chapter 18 Health and Equity Chapter 19 Health and Equality of Opportunity Chapter 20 Is it Morally Permissible to Discontinue NonFutile Use of a Scarce Resource? Chapter 21 Aggregation, Allocating Scarce Resources, and Discrimination Against the Disab...
