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Medicine and moral philosophy / edited by Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon ; contributors, Kenneth J. Arrow [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophy & public affairs readerPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1981.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400853564
  • 1400853567
  • 130698906X
  • 9781306989060
  • 9780691020204
  • 0691020205
  • 9780691072685
  • 069107268X
  • 0691613966
  • 9780691613963
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine and moral philosophy.DDC classification:
  • 174/.2 23
LOC classification:
  • R724 .M299 1981eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I : Conceptual issues -- On the distinction between disease and illness / Christopher Boorse -- Human being : the boundaries of the concept / Lawrence C. Becker -- Brain death and personal identity / Michael B. Green & Daniel Wikler -- Part II : Health and social policy -- Health-care needs and distributive justice / Norman Daniels -- Medical progress and national health care / Loren E. Lomasky -- Gifts and exchanges / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Altrusim and commerce / Peter Singer -- The recombinant DNA debate / Stephen P. Stich -- An alternative policy for obtaining cadaver organs for transplantation / James L Muyskens -- Part III : Medical paternalism -- Paternalistic behavior / Bernard Gert & Charles M. Culver -- Medical paternalism / Allen Buchanan -- The contractual argument for witholding medical information / Donald Vandeveer -- Part IV : Euthanasia -- Voluntary euthansia and the inalienable right to life / Joel Feinberg -- Euthanasia / Philippa Foot.
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Essays originally appeared in Philosophy & public affairs.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I : Conceptual issues -- On the distinction between disease and illness / Christopher Boorse -- Human being : the boundaries of the concept / Lawrence C. Becker -- Brain death and personal identity / Michael B. Green & Daniel Wikler -- Part II : Health and social policy -- Health-care needs and distributive justice / Norman Daniels -- Medical progress and national health care / Loren E. Lomasky -- Gifts and exchanges / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Altrusim and commerce / Peter Singer -- The recombinant DNA debate / Stephen P. Stich -- An alternative policy for obtaining cadaver organs for transplantation / James L Muyskens -- Part III : Medical paternalism -- Paternalistic behavior / Bernard Gert & Charles M. Culver -- Medical paternalism / Allen Buchanan -- The contractual argument for witholding medical information / Donald Vandeveer -- Part IV : Euthanasia -- Voluntary euthansia and the inalienable right to life / Joel Feinberg -- Euthanasia / Philippa Foot.

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