Arguments and analysis in bioethics / edited by Matti Häyri [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preliminary Material -- ARGUING ABOUT ARGUMENTS, ANALYZING ANALYSIS / Matti Häyry , Tuija Takala , Gardar Árnason and Peter Herissone-Kelly -- GLOBAL BIOETHICS AND "ERRONEOUS REASON": FALLACIES ACROSS THE BORDERS / Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten -- IS BIOETHICS ONLY FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL? / Søren Holm -- DO WE NEED (BIO)ETHICAL PRINCIPLES? / Simona Giordano -- BIOETHICS AND STEPHEN TOULMIN'S ARGUMENTATION THEORY / Doris Schroeder and Peter Herissone-Kelly -- THE USE OF EXAMPLES IN BIOETHICS / Harry Lesser -- MORAL INTUITIONS IN BIOETHICS / Harry Lesser -- TOWARD THE "FAIR USE" OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN ETHICAL ARGUMENTS: VACCINATION, MMR, AND DISAGREEMENT / Angus Dawson -- AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NORMAL FUNCTION MODEL AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ENHANCEMENT / Cathleen Schulte -- ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EUGENICS / Stephen Wilkinson -- THE GENETIC FALLACY AND SOME OTHER CONCERNS IN BEHAVIORAL GENETICS / Niall W. R. Scott -- EUGENICS: ENHANCING INDIVIDUALS OR POPULATIONS? / Niall W. R. Scott -- HARM, LAW, AND REPRODUCTIVE CLONING / Anna Smajdor -- AN ANALYSIS OF SOME ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST HUMAN REPRODUCTION / Matti Häyry -- DOES THE BABY-SELLING OBJECTION TO COMMERCIAL SURROGACY MISUSE IMMANUEL KANT? / Stuart Oultram -- PROZAC, AUTHENTICITY, AND THE ARISTOTELIAN MEAN / John McMillan -- THE CASE OF SELF-DEMAND AMPUTEES: A DILEMMA FOR PROFESSIONAL BIOETHICS? / Floris Tomasini -- ENZYME REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND THE RULE OF RESCUE / Mark Sheehan -- IS "THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH" A MISNOMER? / Peter Lucas -- CAN THE SUBJECT-OF-A-LIFE CRITERION HELP GRANT RIGHTS TO NON-PERSONS? / Lisa Bortolotti -- DETERMINING THE LIMITS OF JUSTIFIED PATERNALISM: IS MAXIMIZING AUTONOMY THE KEY? / Jane Wilson -- THE WHO OR WHAT OF STEVE: SEVERE INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS / Simo Vehmas -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.

Is there any justification for the common practice of allocating expensive medical resources to rescue a few from rare diseases, when those resources could be used to treat devastating diseases that affect the many? Does the use of Prozac and other anti-depressants make us inauthentic beings? Is it immoral and irrational to have children? What is the force of examples and counterexamples in bioethics? What are the relevance of moral intuition and the role of empirical evidence in bioethical argument? What notion of "function" underlies accounts of the distinction between normality and disease and between therapy and enhancement? Is there an inherent conflict between research aimed at therapy and research aimed at gaining knowledge, such that the very notion of "therapeutic research" is an oxymoron? The twenty-one chapters in this volume strive, through the use of high quality argument and analysis, to get a good deal clearer concerning a range of issues in bioethics, and a range of issues about bioethics. The essays are provocative, indeed, some quite radical and disturbing, as they call into question many common methodological and substantive assumptions in bioethics.

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