Medicine and moral philosophy /
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1981.
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| Series: | Philosophy & public affairs reader.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : Conceptual issues
- On the distinction between disease and illness / Christopher Boorse
- Human being : the boundaries of the concept / Lawrence C. Becker
- Brain death and personal identity / Michael B. Green & Daniel Wikler
- Part II : Health and social policy
- Health-care needs and distributive justice / Norman Daniels
- Medical progress and national health care / Loren E. Lomasky
- Gifts and exchanges / Kenneth J. Arrow
- Altrusim and commerce / Peter Singer
- The recombinant DNA debate / Stephen P. Stich
- An alternative policy for obtaining cadaver organs for transplantation / James L Muyskens
- Part III : Medical paternalism
- Paternalistic behavior / Bernard Gert & Charles M. Culver
- Medical paternalism / Allen Buchanan
- The contractual argument for witholding medical information / Donald Vandeveer
- Part IV : Euthanasia
- Voluntary euthansia and the inalienable right to life / Joel Feinberg
- Euthanasia / Philippa Foot.