Medical ethics is a vitally important subject, and currently a highly controversial one. Recent cases have highlighted both the intellectual and moral challenges posed by the dilemmas of modern medicine, and their significance for us all. John Harris gives a fully up-to-date survey of the issues in this crucial field of applied ethics, including in vitro fertilization and experimeentationn on human embryos. Professor Harris explores the principal ethical dilemmas that arise in medical practice and research, and by challenging our basic assumptions and familiar ideas, shows how the most difficult problems may be approached and resolved. He presents a clear discussion of the major issues, and argues for a radical re-appraisal of our way of thinking about these problems and of the traditional solutions to them. The book is intended both to introduce the general reader to the problems of medical ethics, and as a text for the study and discussion of medical ethics in medical schools and in the training of health professionals. It will also be of value as a text for applied and practical ethics courses in philosophy departments and departments of social policy and administrat politics, sociology and liberal studies.
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'An excellent introduction to the philosophical study of questions relating to the value of life for philosophy undergraduates.' |I Times Higher Education Supplement
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Excellent primer on medical ethics,
By zombie64 "zombie64" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Value of Life: Introduction to Medical Ethics (Hardcover)
If you've always wanted to know logically what you know naturally, about the value of life, this is the book to read. Clean and concise.
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This review is from: Value of Life: Introduction to Medical Ethics (Hardcover)
After reading this utilitarian account of "The Value of Life" don't think that here is an account of the value of life. You would spend your time much more usefully if you managed to find a copy of, "The Elimination of Morality", by Anne Maclean. Harris, the author of this account fails desperately to connect the dots regarding what a conception of morality really consists in. Not particularly surprising, as if you look at his background, and work, he appears anchored to a Utilitarian, Consequentalist interpretation of morality. Although Maclean's book may seem a little difficult at first, since it sets out to show just how confused Harris is by dissecting his logic, should you persevere a little it becomes quite clear that many years ago when originally writing this book Harris started down the wrong path, and continues in his confusion regardless. Causing him to misunderstand completely what Maclean is attempting to show him, and us, in her criticisms of his conception of morality. He published something of an incoherent 'rebuttal' to Maclean in the form of a paper that can be found on the web. It may seem easy to understand what Harris is telling us, but just because something is easy doesn't mean that it is correct. In the present educational climate it would appear that for most students of ethics easy-is-best, hence the new edition of Harris' account. My advice, save your money, or go with Maclean to get some sort of an understanding of how utilitarians manipulate ethical perspective.
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The ultimate question for medical ethics, indeed, for any ethics, is also in a sense the very first question that arises when we begin to grapple with moral problems. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
frozen citizens, vitro embryology, womb leasing, fair innings argument, potentiality argument, innocent shields, negative responsibility, innocent threats, transplantation orders, spare embryos, embryo donation, contemporary citizens, fertilised egg, selective treatment, vitro fertilisation, active euthanasia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The ultimate question for medical ethics, indeed, for any ethics, is also in a sense the very first question that arises when we begin to grapple with moral problems. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
frozen citizens, vitro embryology, womb leasing, fair innings argument, potentiality argument, innocent shields, negative responsibility, innocent threats, transplantation orders, spare embryos, embryo donation, contemporary citizens, fertilised egg, selective treatment, vitro fertilisation, active euthanasia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Moral Problems: A Collection of Philosophical Essays by James Rachels in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- What Sort of People Should There Be? (Pelican) by Jonathan Glover in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Elimination of Morality: Reflections on Utilitarianism and Bioethics by Anne Maclean on 13 pages
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- Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade by Stephen Wilkinson on 7 pages
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