Arguments and analysis in bioethics / / edited by Matti Häyry [and others].

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; v. 214
• TeilnehmendeR: Häyry, Matti.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 214.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; ARGUING ABOUT ARGUMENTS, ANALYZING ANALYSIS /; GLOBAL BIOETHICS AND “ERRONEOUS REASON”: FALLACIES ACROSS THE BORDERS /; IS BIOETHICS ONLY FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL? /; DO WE NEED (BIO)ETHICAL PRINCIPLES? /; BIOETHICS AND STEPHEN TOULMIN’S ARGUMENTATION THEORY /; THE USE OF EXAMPLES IN BIOETHICS /; MORAL INTUITIONS IN BIOETHICS /; TOWARD THE “FAIR USE” OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN ETHICAL ARGUMENTS: VACCINATION, MMR, AND DISAGREEMENT /; AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NORMAL FUNCTION MODEL AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ENHANCEMENT /; ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EUGENICS /; THE GENETIC FALLACY AND SOME OTHER CONCERNS IN BEHAVIORAL GENETICS /; EUGENICS: ENHANCING INDIVIDUALS OR POPULATIONS? /; HARM, LAW, AND REPRODUCTIVE CLONING /; AN ANALYSIS OF SOME ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST HUMAN REPRODUCTION /; DOES THE BABY-SELLING OBJECTION TO COMMERCIAL SURROGACY MISUSE IMMANUEL KANT? /; PROZAC, AUTHENTICITY, AND THE ARISTOTELIAN MEAN /; THE CASE OF SELF-DEMAND AMPUTEES: A DILEMMA FOR PROFESSIONAL BIOETHICS? /; ENZYME REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND THE RULE OF RESCUE /; IS “THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH” A MISNOMER? /; CAN THE SUBJECT-OF-A-LIFE CRITERION HELP GRANT RIGHTS TO NON-PERSONS? /; DETERMINING THE LIMITS OF JUSTIFIED PATERNALISM: IS MAXIMIZING AUTONOMY THE KEY? /; THE WHO OR WHAT OF STEVE: SEVERE INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS /; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX --; VIBS.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9042028033
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Matti Häyry [and others].

Is there any justification for the common practice of allocating expensive medical resources to rescue a few from rare diseases, when those resources could be used to treat devastating diseases that affect the many? Does the use of Prozac and other anti-depressants make us inauthentic beings? Is it immoral and irrational to have children? What is the force of examples and counterexamples in bioethics? What are the relevance of moral intuition and the role of empirical evidence in bioethical argument? What notion of “function” underlies accounts of the distinction between normality and disease and between therapy and enhancement? Is there an inherent conflict between research aimed at therapy and research aimed at gaining knowledge, such that the very notion of “therapeutic research” is an oxymoron? The twenty-one chapters in this volume strive, through the use of high quality argument and analysis, to get a good deal clearer concerning a range of issues in bioethics, and a range of issues about bioethics. The essays are provocative, indeed, some quite radical and disturbing, as they call into question many common methodological and substantive assumptions in bioethics.