Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives
F.M. Kamm
Abstract
This book collects work on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made the author among the most influential philosophers in this area. The author is known for intricate, sophisticated, and painstaking philosophical analyses of moral problems generally and of bioethical issues in particular. This volume showcases this work—revised to eliminate redundancies—as parts of a coherent whole. An introduction identifies important themes than run through the chapters. Sections cover topics such as death and dying; early life (on conception and use of embryos, abor ... More
This book collects work on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made the author among the most influential philosophers in this area. The author is known for intricate, sophisticated, and painstaking philosophical analyses of moral problems generally and of bioethical issues in particular. This volume showcases this work—revised to eliminate redundancies—as parts of a coherent whole. An introduction identifies important themes than run through the chapters. Sections cover topics such as death and dying; early life (on conception and use of embryos, abortion, and childhood); genetics and other such enhancements (on cloning and other genetic technologies); allocating scarce resources; and methodology (on the relation of moral theory and practical ethics).
Keywords:
bioethics,
death,
dying,
early life,
embryos,
abortion,
childhood,
genetics,
cloning,
scares resources
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199971985 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199971985.001.0001 |
