From reason to practice in bioethics : [electronic book] : an anthology dedicated to the works of John Harris / edited by John Coggon, Sarah Chan, Søren Holm and Thomasine Kushner.
Contributor(s): Coggon, John [editor.] | Chan, Sarah (Researcher in bioethics) [editor.] | Holm, Søren [editor.] | Kushner, Thomasine Kimbrough [editor.] | Harris, John [honouree.].
Material type: BookSeries: Contemporary issues in bioethics, law and medical humanities: Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: online resource (xix, 244 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780719096235 (hardback); 0719096235 (hardback); 9781781708392 (e-book); 9780719098031 (e-book); 1781708398 (e-book); 0719098033 (e-book).Subject(s): Harris, John, 1945- | BioethicsDDC classification: 174.957 Online resources: E-bookItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From reason to practice in bioethics brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading scholars in the field of bioethics. With a particular focus on, and critical engagement with, the influential work of Professor John Harris, the book provides a detailed exploration of some of the most interesting and challenging philosophical and practical questions raised in bioethics. The book's broad range of chapters will make it a useful resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in the field of bioethics, and the relationship between philosophical and practical ethics. The range of contributors and topics afford the book a wide international interest.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thought and memory -- On moral nose -- Hanging around with Jackson -- The unbearable desire for explicitness and rationality in bioethics -- Moral epistemology and the survival lottery -- Harris and the criticism of the status quo -- The natural as a moral category -- Making sense of human dignity -- Why we should save the anthropocentric person -- From ethics to policyand practice -- Why the reasonable man is not always right -- Why the body matters -- Harris's principle of justice in health care -- Eqalyty revisited -- The safety of the people and the case against invasive health promotion -- Could we reduce racism with one easy dip -- What a thought experiment about race color change makes us see -- Against mumps Meursault McDonalds and Marlboro -- Killing and allowing to die -- Response to and reflections.
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
John Coggon is Professor of Law and the Philosophy of Public Health at the University of Southampton
Sarah Chan is Deputy Director of iSEI & Research Fellow in Bioethics and Law at the University of Manchester
Søren Holm is Professor of Bioethics at University of Manchester
Thomasine Kushner is the Editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Economics