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Essays on Bioethics

By R. M. Hare

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
0198236786, 9780198236788, 0198239831, 9780198239833
LCC
R724 .H236 1993
Open Library ID
OL1407836M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10198556 bytes)
Pages
264\262
Topic
Biology Biophysics
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

R.M. Hare is well known both for his fundamental 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. The book's 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. There are also general introductions to medical and psychiatric ethics, and essays on the concept of health, on the morality of experimentation on children, on health care policy, on free will, and on vegetarianism.

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