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Is there any justification for the common practice of allocating expensive medical resources to rescue a few from rare diseases, when those resources could be used to treat devastating diseases that affect the many? Does the use of Prozac and other anti-depressants make us inauthentic beings? Is it immoral and irrational to have children? What is the force of examples and counterexamples in bioethics? What are the relevance of moral intuition and the role of empirical evidence in bioethical argument? What notion of function underlies accounts of the distinction between normality and disease and between therapy and enhancement? Is there an inherent conflict between research aimed at therapy and research aimed at gaining knowledge, such that the very notion of therapeutic research is an oxymoron? The twenty-one chapters in this volume strive, through the use of high quality argument and analysis, to get a good deal clearer concerning a range of issues in bioethics, and a range of issues about bioethics. The essays are provocative, indeed, some quite radical and disturbing, as they call into question many common methodological and substantive assumptions in bioethics.

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Author:   Matti Hayry ,  Tuija Takala ,  Peter Herissone-Kelly ,  Gardar Arnason
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   214
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9789042028029

ISBN 10:   9042028025
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by John Lizza Preface Matti Hayry, Tuija Takala, Gardar Arnason, and Peter Herissone-Kelly: Introduction. Arguing About Arguments, Analyzing Analysis Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten: Global Bioethics and Erroneous Reason : Fallacies Across the Borders Soren Holm: Is Bioethics Only for the Rich and Powerful? Simona Giordano: Do We Need (Bio)Ethical Principles? Doris Schroeder and Peter Herissone-Kelly: Bioethics and Stephen Toulmin's Argumentation Theory Harry Lesser: The Use of Examples in Bioethics Harry Lesser: Moral Intuitions in Bioethics Angus Dawson: Toward the Fair Use of Empirical Evidence in Ethical Arguments: Vaccination, MMR and Disagreement Cathleen Schulte: An Assessment of the Normal Function Model and Implications for Enhancement Stephen Wilkinson: On the Distinction Between Positive and Negative Eugenics Niall W. R. Scott: Genetic Fallacy and Some Other Concerns in Behavioral Genetics Niall W. R. Scott: Eugenics: Enhancing Individuals or Populations? Anna Smajdor: Harm, Law and Reproductive Cloning Matti Hayry: An Analysis of Some Arguments for and against Human Reproduction Stuart Oultram: Does the Baby Selling Objection to Commercial Surrogacy Misuse Immanuel Kant? John McMillan: Prozac, Authenticity, and the Aristotelian Mean Floris Tomasini: The Case of Self-Demand Amputees: A Dilemma for Professional Ethics? Mark Sheehan: Enzyme Replacement Therapy and the Rule of Rescue Peter Lucas: Is Therapeutic Research a Misnomer? Lisa Bortolotti: Can the Subject-of-a-Life Criterion Help Grant Rights to Non-Persons? Jane Wilson: Determining the Limits of Justified Paternalism: Is Maximizing Autonomy the Key? Simo Vehmas: The Who or What of Steve: Severe Cognitive Impairment and its Implications About the Editors and Contributors Index

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