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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).

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Author:   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: 16.30cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780199971985

ISBN 10:   0199971986
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   09 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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"

Reviews

Frances Kamm is the deepest, most sophisticated, and most fertile thinker in the entire field of bioethics. --Jeff McMahan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University It would be hard to praise the book too highly...If this is your field, you simply must be familiar with her ideas... These are staggeringly sophisticated essays...there is a tight argument or interesting distinction made on almost everyone of these 288 pages...[Kamm] delivers uniformly new and interesting results...I mean to fill the air with much full-throated and fulsome praise for this collection. --J. Carl Ficarrotta, Ethics

<br> Frances Kamm is the deepest, most sophisticated, and most fertile thinker in the entire field of bioethics. --Jeff McMahan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University<p><br>

Author Information

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.

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