As our powerful medical technology continues rapidly to develop, we seem to be confronted by fresh bioethical dilemmas at an ever increasing rate. This volume provides an introduction to modern thinking on these issues, concentrating particularly on paternalism, informed consent and euthanasia. By developing in-depth philosophical perspectives on the common moral concerns underlying these apparently diverse problems, the contributors provide an account of the very fundamentals of medical ethics. Throughout, they endeavour to clarify key concepts, to examine basic assumptions and values, and to address normative issues raised in bioethical contexts, often illuminating their ideas with schematic or actual case histories, including treatments of: the justification of paternalism; ethics of human experimentation; morality of nontherapeutic fetal experimentation; euthanasia, killing, and letting die; morality and medical experimentation; catch-22 paternalism; mandatory genetic screening; informed consent; justice in foetal experimentation; active and passive euthanasia; medical agency and negative acts; and experimentation on prisoners.
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nontherapeutic fetal research, nontherapeutic fetal experimentation, fetal consent, promotive paternalism, support mandatory screening, universally allowing, nonconsenting human beings, paternalist principles, mandatory genetic screening, rational ranking, fetal experiments, nonrational grounds, dying fetuses, nontherapeutic experimentation, nontherapeutic experiments, parental veto, nontherapeutic research, paternalistic behavior, bare difference, wedge arguments, live cancer cells, letting someone die, letting die, passive euthanasia, biomedical intervention Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Paul Ramsey, Protection of Human Subjects, National Commission, Primacy of Life Principle, Supreme Court, Sissela Bok, Federal Register, Peel Commission, James Rachels, Public Affairs, Department of Health, Principle of Autonomy, United States, Jehovah's Witness, Joseph Fletcher, New Jersey, American Medical Association, Englewood Cliffs, Harvard University Press, Hastings Center Report, Charles Fried, Social Philosophy, Tay Sachs, University of Michigan New!
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New York, Paul Ramsey, Protection of Human Subjects, National Commission, Primacy of Life Principle, Supreme Court, Sissela Bok, Federal Register, Peel Commission, James Rachels, Public Affairs, Department of Health, Principle of Autonomy, United States, Jehovah's Witness, Joseph Fletcher, New Jersey, American Medical Association, Englewood Cliffs, Harvard University Press, Hastings Center Report, Charles Fried, Social Philosophy, Tay Sachs, University of Michigan New!
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- Social Philosophy by Joel Feinberg on page 23, page 39, and page 144
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on page 26, and page 172
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill on page 22, and page 41
- Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Law by Jay Katz on page 16
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 6
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