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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820390603321

Titolo

Contemporary debates in applied ethics / / edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014

2014

ISBN

1-118-47987-4

1-118-47983-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (474 p.)

Collana

Contemporary debates in philosophy ; ; 15

Altri autori (Persone)

CohenAndrew I

WellmanChristopher Heath

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Applied ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Issues of Life and Death; Issues in Justice; Issues of Privacy and the Good; Issues of Cosmospolitanism and Community; Ethical Theory; CHAPTER ONE: Theories of Ethics; Case Ethics; Normative Ethical Theory; Meta-ethics; Contractarianism/Contractualism; Contractarianism; Contractualism; Consequentialism; Deontology; Virtue Theory; CHAPTER TWO: The Wrong of Abortion; Human Embryos and Fetuses are Complete (though Immature) Human Beings; No-Person Arguments: The Dualist Version

No-Person Arguments: The Evaluative VersionThe Argument that Abortion is Justified as Non-intentional Killing; CHAPTER THREE: The Moral Permissibility of Abortion; Introduction; The Moral Status of Embryos and Early Fetuses; Abortion and Gestational Assistance; Intimacy, Pregnancy, and Motherhood; Norms of Responsible Creation; CHAPTER FOUR: In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; Important Concepts and Distinctions; A Fundamental Defense of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia; The argument; The soundness of the argument

Voluntary Passive Euthanasia versus Voluntary Active EuthanasiaThe argument; An evaluation of the second argument; Should Assisted



Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia Be Legal?; CHAPTER FIVE: A Case Against Euthanasia; Suicide: The Way (Rarely) Taken; Three Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia; Euthanasia as a Social, not Private, Act; Euthanasia and the Law; The Dutch Experience; Not Pain but Loss of Control; Catering to a Small Minority; CHAPTER SIX: Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection; The Benefits Argument; What the Benefits Argument Omits; The overestimation of human benefits

The underestimation of human harmsComparisons across species; Human Vivisection and Human Rights; Why the Benefits Argument Begs the Question; The Children of Willowbrook; The Basis of Human Rights; Why Animals Have Rights; Challenging Human and Animal Equality: Speciesism; Other Objections, Other Replies; Conclusion; CHAPTER SEVEN: Animals and Their Medical Use; The Abolitionist Appeal to Animal Rights; The "Anything Goes" View on Animals; The Value of Lives and Quality of Life; Two Senses of Moral Community; Conclusion; CHAPTER EIGHT: A Defense of Affirmative Action; Introduction

Affirmative Action as a Remedy for Past InjusticesAffirmative Action as a Form of Compensatory Justice; Standardized Tests and Race; Affirmative Action and Equal Protection; Conclusions; CHAPTER NINE: Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic; Framing the Issue; Disentangling Race and Sex; Affirmative Action for Black People: Evaluating the Arguments; The compensatory (or backward-looking) argument; Corrective argument; Forward-looking arguments; Assessing the Arguments; Conclusion; CHAPTER TEN: A Defense of the Death Penalty; In Favor of the Death Penalty; Retribution; Deterrence

Objections to the Death Penalty

Sommario/riassunto

Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns.Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories of ethics by Stephen DarwallLeading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethicsAn ideal semester-leng



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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019950803321

Titolo

Ciba Foundation symposium on bone structure and metabolism / / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Little, Brown, 1956

ISBN

9780470715222

0470715227

9780470714911

0470714913

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

O'ConnorCecilia M <1927-> (Cecilia Mary)

Disciplina

612.75

Soggetti

Bone

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CIBA FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM ON BONE STRUCTURE AND METABOLISM; CONTENTS; Chairman's opening remarks; Structure of bone from the anatomical to the molecular level; Discussion; Structure of bone salts; Discussion; The histological remodelling of adult bone. An autoradiographic study; Discussion; Fibrogenesis and the formation of matrix in developing bone; Discussion; The mucopolysaccharides of bone; Discussion; Autoradiographic studies of the formation of the organic matrix of cartilage, bone and the tissues of teeth; Discussion

Uptake of 35S in the differentiation and growth of cartilage and boneDiscussion; In vitro uptake and exchange of bone citrate; Discussion; The magnesium content of bone in hypomagnesaemic disorders of livestock; Discussion; The mechanism of nutrition in bone and how it affects its structure, repair and fate on transplantation; Discussion; Studies on the repair of fractures using 32 P; Discussion; Metabolic studies on vitamin D; Discussion; The mode of action of vitamin D; Discussion

Variations in sensitivity to vitamin D: from vitamin D resistant rickets, vitamin D avitaminotic rickets and hypervitaminosis D to idiopathic



hypercalcaemiaDiscussion; Present knowledge of parathyroid function, with especial emphasis upon its limitations; Discussion; The indirect assessment of parathyroid function; Discussion; Vascularity of bone in relation to pathological studies; Discussion; Some observations on experimental bone disease; Discussion; Osteodysmetamorphosis foetalis; Discussion; Bone as a critical organ for the deposition of radioactive materials; Discussion

General DiscussionChairman's closing remarks

Sommario/riassunto

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.