Bioethics : an anthology / edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

When care cannot cure: medical problems in seriously ill babies -- A Modern myth: that letting die is not the intentional causation of death -- The Abnormal child: moral dilemmas of doctors and parents -- Right to life of handicapped -- A Definition of irreversible coma -- Is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? -- Life past reason -- Dworkin on dementia: elegant theory, questionable policy -- The note -- When self-determination runs amok -- When abstract moralizing runs amok -- Listening and helping to die: the Dutch way -- Rescuing lives: can't we count? -- The Allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy -- Should alcoholics compete equally for liver transplantation? The Value of life -- How age should matter: justice as the basis for limiting care to the elderly -- Quality of life and resource allocation -- A Lifespan approach to health care -- Why give to strangers? -- Organ donation and retrieval: whose body is it anyway? -- The Case for allowing kidney sales -- The Survival lottery -- Ethics and clinical research -- Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research -- The Patient and the public good -- The Morality of clinical research: a case study -- Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries -- We're trying to help our sickest people, not exploit them -- Question of respect for life: what some [Australian] members of parliament have said about.

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