Contributor
Harris, John 1945 Aug. 21-
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Descriptionvi, 557 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:PART I: BEGINNINGS OF LIFE: 1. A defence of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- 2. Killing and letting die / Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer -- 3. Abortion: identity and loss / Warren Quinn -- PART II: END OF LIFE: 4. Terminating life-sustaining treatment of the demented / Daniel Callahan -- 5. Which way down the slippery slope? Nazi medical killing and euthanasia today / Ruth Macklin -- 6. Advance directives and the personal identity problem / Allen Buchanan -- PART III: THE VALUE OF LIFE: 7. What is sacred? / Ronald Dworkin -- 8. Taking and saving lives / Eric Rakowski -- 9.The surival lottery / John Harris -- PART IV: ALLOCATION OF SCARCE RESOURCES AND QUALITY OF LIFE: 10. Health-care needs and distributive justice / Norman Daniels -- 11. Equality or priority? / Derek Parfit -- 12. Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics / Dan Brock -- PART V: FUTURE GENERATIONS: 13. Future people, disability, and screening / Jonathan Glover -- 14. Wrongful life: paradoxes in the morality of causing people to exist / Jeff McMahan -- PART VI: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: 15. Principlism and its alleged competitors / Tom L. Beauchamp -- 16. Not just autonomy: the principles of American biomedical ethics / Søren Holm -- 17. Telling the truth, confidentiality, consent, and respect for autonomy / Raanan Gillon.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [534]-547) and index.
