Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics

✍ Scribed by Nafsika Athanassoulis (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 220
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provides a collection of original essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics research. Leading philosophers give in-depth accounts of issues as diverse as embryo pre-selection, the role of autonomy in organ transplant markets, conscientious objection in the health care professions and neonatal euthanasia. Provocative and original, the contributions to this volume will be of interest to academic, students and health care professionals alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-23
Benefit, Disability and the Non-Identity Problem....Pages 24-43
‘Designer Babies’, Instrumentalisation and the Child’s Right to an Open Future....Pages 44-69
Why There is No Right to Know One’s Genetic Origins....Pages 70-87
Compromise and Moral Complicity in the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate....Pages 88-108
Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering....Pages 109-134
Autonomy, Inducements and Organ Sales....Pages 135-159
The Role of Conscience in Medical Ethics....Pages 160-179
The Treatment That Leaves Something to Luck....Pages 180-197
Passive Death....Pages 198-207
Back Matter....Pages 208-210

✦ Subjects

Medical Sociology; Nursing; Ethics; Moral Philosophy; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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