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Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics N. Athanassoulis

Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics By N. Athanassoulis

Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics by N. Athanassoulis

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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.

Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics Summary

Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics by N. Athanassoulis

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.

Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics Reviews

'...essential reading for anyone interested in the vast range of complex ethical, social and legal issues at the center of contemporary medical ethics.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

About N. Athanassoulis

PIERS BENN Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, Imperial College, UK KATRIEN DEVOLDER is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and is based at the Bioethics Institute Ghent at Ghent University, Belgium HEATHER DRAPER is Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences University of Birmingham, UK RAY FREY Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green University, USA JOHN HARRIS Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK HALLVARD LILLEHAMMER Fellow of King's College, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University, UK DAVID S. ODERBERG Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UK JAMES STACEY TAYLOR Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey USA STEPHEN WILKINSON Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy, Keele University, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction; N.Athanassoulis Belief, Disability and the Non-Identity Problem; H.Lillehammer 'Designer Babies', Instrumentalisation and the Child's Right to an Open Future; S.Wilkinson Why There is no Right to Know One's Genetic Origins; H.Draper Compromise and Moral Complicity in the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate; K.Devolder & J.Harris Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering; D.S. Oderberg Autonomy Inducements and Organ Sales; J.S.Taylor The Role of Conscience in Medical Ethics; P.Benn The Treatment that Leaves Something to Luck; N.Athanassoulis Active and Passive Euthanasia; R.Frey Index

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NPB9781403945273
9781403945273
1403945276
Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics by N. Athanassoulis
N. Athanassoulis
New
Hardback
Palgrave USA
2005-09-08
210
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