Essays on Bioethics
R. M. Hare
Price: £22.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823678-8
Publication date: 19 September 1996
264 pages, 216x138 mm
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| - 'Contemporary bioethics owes a great deal to Professor Hare. Not only has Hare developed a highly sophisticated ethical theory, but he has from the beginning applied it to many different practical issues, including issues on bioethics ... Hare has provided some powerful prudential arguments in favour of being moral ... Hare's book has much to offer its readers ... Hare's work, like that of all
great philosophers, provides both enlightenment and plenty to disagree with ... I said that contemporary bioethics owes much to Hare. With the publication of this volume, the debt is even greater.' - Bioethics
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| Description | | - Addresses controversial and sensitive issues of universal and growing concern
- Clear, vigorous, original, practical, often surprising
- Accessible and illuminating for a broad readership outside academic philosophy
| R. M. Hare is well known both for his seminal work in ethical theory and for his applications of it to practical issues. For this volume he has selected the best of his writings on medical ethics and related topics. Its chief theoretical interest lies in its synthesis between utilitarian and Kantian ethics, which are shown to have the same practical consequences. The main practical thesis in
the book is that we can harm possible people by preventing them from becoming actual people. This thesis, if understood and accepted, would radically alter the terms of the public debate about embryo experimentation and population policy, and (perhaps surprisingly) support a fairly liberal view on abortion.
The book also features general introductions to medical and psychiatric ethics, and
essays on the concept of healh, on the morality of experimentation on children, on health care policy, on free will, and on vegetarianism. |
Readership: Philosophers; healthcare professionals; policymakers and administrators; general readers interested in applied ethics.
| Contents |
1.
Medical Ethics: Can the Moral Philosopher Help?
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The Philosophical Basis of Psychiatric Ethics
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Health
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Moral Problems about the Control of Behaviour
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Possible People
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When does Potentiality Count?
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In Vitro
Fertilization and the Warnock Report
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Embryo Experimentation: Public Policy in a Pluralist Society
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Little Human Guinea-Pigs?
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Abortion and the Golden Rule
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A Kantian Approach to Abortion
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The Abnormal Child: Moral Dilemmas of Doctors and Parents
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Prediction and Moral Appraisal
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Health Care Policy: Some Options
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Why I am Only a Demi-Vegetarian
References, Bibliography, Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
R. M. Hare, Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville
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