Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics

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University of Toronto Press (1996)
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The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional contexts of bioethics, addressing underlying concerns about the purposes of its practice.

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9781442623552   0802071392   1442623551   9780802071392   0802007716

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10.3138/9781442623552

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Acknowledgments.L. Wayne Sumner & Joseph Boyle
Contents.L. Wayne Sumner & Joseph Boyle
Frontmatter.L. Wayne Sumner & Joseph Boyle
Introduction.  (pages 1-8)Joseph Boyle & L. W. Sumner
Professional morality: can an examined life be lived.  (pages 9--17)Daniel Callahan
Methods of Bioethics: Some Defective Proposals.  (pages 18-36)R. M. Hare
Morally Appreciated Circumstances: A Theoretical Problem for Casuistry.  (pages 37--49)Albert R. Jonsen
Moral philosophy and bioethics: contextualism versus the paradigm theory.  (pages 50--78)Earl Winkler
The role of principles in practical ethics.  (pages 79--95)Tom L. Beauchamp
Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Practice.  (pages 96-114)Norman Daniels
Bioethics through the Back Door: Phenomenology, Narratives, and Insights into Infertility.  (pages 115-142)Laura Shanner
Good Bioethics Must Be Feminist Bioethics.  (pages 143-162)Laura M. Purdy
Reflections of a Sceptical Bioethicist.  (pages 163-186)Christine Overall
Theory versus practice in ethics: A feminist perspective on justice in health care.  (pages 187--209)Susan Sherwin
Gender rites and rights: The biopolitics of beauty and fertility.  (pages 210-243)Kathryn Pauly Morgan
Moral Philosophy and Public Policy: The Case of New Reproductive Technologies.  (pages 244-270)Will Kymlicka
Contributors.  (pages 297-299)L. Wayne Sumner & Joseph Boyle

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