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UNINA9910820390603321 |
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Contemporary debates in applied ethics / / edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman |
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
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2014 |
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1-118-47987-4 |
1-118-47983-1 |
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[Second edition.] |
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1 online resource (474 p.) |
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Contemporary debates in philosophy ; ; 15 |
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CohenAndrew I |
WellmanChristopher Heath |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9911019950803321 |
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Ciba Foundation symposium on bone structure and metabolism / / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor |
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Boston, : Little, Brown, 1956 |
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9780470715222 |
0470715227 |
9780470714911 |
0470714913 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Ciba Foundation symposium |
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WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward) |
O'ConnorCecilia M <1927-> (Cecilia Mary) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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