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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794896303321

Titolo

From reason to practice in bioethics : an anthology dedicated to the works of John Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-7190-9802-5

1-78170-839-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Contemporary issues in bioethics, law and medical humanities From reason to practice in bioethics

Disciplina

174/.957

Soggetti

Bioethics

Bioethical Issues

Ethics

Humanities

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Health Care

Biology - General

Biology

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Introductions -- Editors' introduction / John Coggon, Sarah Chan, Søren Holm, and Thomasine Kushner -- Thought and memory / John Harris -- Part 2. Grounding moral arguments  -- On moral nose / Jonathan Glover -- Hanging around with Jackson: consistency in ethical argument, and how to avoid it / Richard Ashcroft -- The unbearable desire for explicitness and rationality in bioethics / Michael Parker and Micaela Ghisleni -- Moral epistemology and the survival lottery /Torbjörn Tännsjö -- Harris and the criticism of the status quo / Florencia Luna -- The natural as a moral category / Harry Lesser --  Making sense of human dignity / Deryck Beyleveld -- Why we should save the anthropocentric person / Simon Woods -- Part 3. From ethics to policy and practice -- Why the reasonable man is not always right? / Margaret Brazier --  Why the body matters: reflections on John Harris's



account of organ procurement / Alastair V. Campbell -- Harris's principle of justice in health care / Ruth Macklin -- Equality revisited / Andrew Edgar -- The safety of the people and the case against invasive health promotion / Andreas Hasman -- Could we reduce racism with one easy dip? What a thought-experiment about race-colour change makes us see / Margaret P. Battin -- Against mumps, Meursault, McDonald's and Marlboro: On the immunization of children against smoking, alcohol and drugs / Inez de Beaufort -- Killing and allowing to die / Raanan Gillon -- Part 4. John Harris responds -- Response to and reflections on chapters 3-18 / John Harris.

Sommario/riassunto

This anthology gathers together original works from some of bioethics' most celebrated scholars. Focused on and around the works of John Harris, the book addresses the most debated issues in contemporary bioethics, and will serve as an excellent text and resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in bioethics.