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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: F.M. Kamm (Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy and Professor of Philosophy, Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy and Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.862kg ISBN: 9780190649616ISBN 10: 0190649615 Pages: 616 Publication Date: 08 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"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 Disabled Chapter 22 Rationing and the Disabled: Several Proposals Chapter 23 Learning from Bioethics: Moral Issues in Rationing Non-Medical Scarce Resources Part V: Methodology Chapter 24 The Philosopher as Insider and Outsider Chapter 25 Theory and Analogy Chapter 26 Relations between High Theory, Low Theory, and Applying Applied Ethics Chapter 27 Understanding, Justifying, and Finding Oneself Index"ReviewsF.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. * Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal * ...it is extremely difficult not to be impressed with her powers of imagination and her moral perceptiveness. Many of the individual chapters brim with crucial insights, decisive counterexamples, and puzzling questions, and together they offer a top-notch deontological exploration into various matters of bioethics as well as into normative ethics in general...I strongly recommend it to students and scholars of bioethics as well as to philosophers interested in normative ethics in general. * Ethics * ...a must-read for anyone concerned with bioethics...her impressive, monumental work deserves attention. It can be used as a guidebook to bioethical arguments, as well as a textbook and source of numerous moral dilemmas. By following Kamm's argumentation, one can acquaint oneself with rigorous and detailed analytical thinking, which she presents on a masterly level. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * Frances Kamm's newest book, Bioethical Prescriptions, is a treasure trove of careful arguments and penetrating insight. * T.M. Scanlon, Harvard University, Journal of Medical Ethics * Frances Kamm is the deepest, most sophisticated, and most fertile thinker in the entire field of bioethics. * Jeff McMahan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University * Frances Kamm is the deepest, most sophisticated, and most fertile thinker in the entire field of bioethics. Jeff McMahan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University Frances Kamm's newest book, Bioethical Prescriptions, is a treasure trove of careful arguments and penetrating insight. T.M. Scanlon, Harvard University, Journal of Medical Ethics ...a must-read for anyone concerned with bioethics...her impressive, monumental work deserves attention. It can be used as a guidebook to bioethical arguments, as well as a textbook and source of numerous moral dilemmas. By following Kamm's argumentation, one can acquaint oneself with rigorous and detailed analytical thinking, which she presents on a masterly level. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ...it is extremely difficult not to be impressed with her powers of imagination and her moral perceptiveness. Many of the individual chapters brim with crucial insights, decisive counterexamples, and puzzling questions, and together they offer a top-notch deontological exploration into various matters of bioethics as well as into normative ethics in general...I strongly recommend it to students and scholars of bioethics as well as to philosophers interested in normative ethics in general. Ethics 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. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Author InformationF.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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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