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11Re-Creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of MedicineRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.In this important new book Gregory E. Pence looks at issues on the frontiers of medicine including gene therapy to produce 'brave new babies,' cloning, human eggs and embryos for sale, and experiments on human embryos. Pence argues that the conservatism of the medical establishment, the bioethics community, and the public at large has created shibboleths that impede improvements in our quality of life
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11Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans a ReaderRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.Flesh of My Flesh is a collection of articles by today's most respected scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors about whether we should allow human cloning. It includes historical pieces to provide background for the current debate. Religious, philosophical, and legal points of view are all represented
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5Fair Contracts and Beautiful IntuitionsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 7 (sup1): 137-152. 1977.A critique of Rawls's contractualism.
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1James Rachels, 1941-2003Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 77 (2). 2003.
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4Can Hume Answer Cromwell?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (3). 1981.In the first written volume of David Hume's History of England, Hume describes Oliver Cromwell in this uncomplimentary way:The strokes of his character are as open and strongly marked, as the schemes of his conduct were, during the time, dark and unpenetrable. His extensive capacity enabled him to form the most enlarged projects: His enterprising genius was not dismayed with the boldest and most dangerous. Carried, by his natural temper, to magnanimity, to grandeur, and to an imperious and domin…Read more
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6A Critique of Sidney Hook's Justification of Human RightsJournal of Critical Analysis 3 (3): 148-151. 1971.
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9Can compassion be taught?Journal of Medical Ethics 9 (4): 189-191. 1983.Socrates (in the Meno) denied that virtues like courage could be taught, whereas Protagoras defended this claim. Compassion is discussed below in this context; it is distinguished from related, but different, moral qualities, and the role of imagination is emphasised. 'Sympathy's and role-modelling views of compassion's acquisition are criticised. Compassion can indeed be taught, but neither by the example of a few, isolated physicians nor by creation of Departments of Compassion. In replying to…Read more
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14Medical ethics: accounts of ground-breaking casesMcGraw-Hill. 2010.Now in its twentieth year of publication, this rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories and legal and ethical issues.
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48This rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories and legal and ethical issues.
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3Brave new bioethicsRowman & Littlefield. 2002.This book gather's thirty-five of Pence's most influential, groundbreaking, and personal essays into one broad-ranging volume. It included essays on cloning, AIDS, dignified death,and test-tube babies.
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4Why physicians should aid the dyingIn Hugh LaFollette - (ed.), Ethics in Practice, Blackwell. pp. 22--32. 1997.