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106Intellectual property and biotechnology: The european debateKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17 (2): 69-110. 2007.: The European patent system allows for the introduction of moral issues into decisions about the granting of patents. This feature has greatly impacted European debates about the patenting of biotechnology. This essay explores the European experience, in both the European Union and the European Patent Organization. It argues that there has been great confusion surrounding these issues primarily because the Europeans have not developed a general theory about when exclusion from patentability is …Read more
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15Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary ReadingsCengage Learning. 1999.[TofC cont.] Social ideals: Justice, A utilitarian theory of justice / J.S. Mill, Egalitarianism with changed motivation / G. Cohen; Equality, Multidimensional equality / M. Walzer, Equality of capacity / A. Sen; Liberty, rights, property, and self-ownership, A defense of the primacy of liberty rights / L. Lomasky, Atomism and the primacy of rights / C. Taylor -- Social institutions: Education, Educating about familial values / W. Galston, For vouchers and parental choice / M. Friedman; Family, …Read more
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6IndexIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 163-165. 1981.
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19Quality of scholarship in bioethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (2): 161-178. 1990.This paper identifies four major forms of scholarship in bioethics: empirical research, the articulation of mid-level principles of bioethics, the relating of these principles to fundamental moral theories, and discussions of the bioethical implications of legal principles and health delivery policies. It develops a reflective equilibrium approach to the relation between these four forms of scholarship. It then presents, in light of this approach, criteria for quality research in each of these f…Read more
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16The role of philosophy in public policy and bioethics: introductionJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (4): 345-346. 1990.
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27Ethical Questions Raised by the Persistent Vegetative PatientHastings Center Report 18 (1): 33-37. 1988.
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Three. ImplicationsIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 43-70. 1981.
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8Bioethics: Readings & CasesPrentice-Hall. 1987.This book is the first systematic integrated analysis of ethical issues in health care which combines an introduction to moral theory, a set of readings in health care ethics, and an extensive set of case studies.
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RSPCA. Jonathan Balcombe has been Associate Director for Education in the Animal Research Issues section of the Humane Society of the United States since 1993. He has degrees from York University and Carleton University, Toronto, and a doctoral degree in ethology from the University of Tennessee (review)In Susan Jean Armstrong & Richard George Botzler (eds.), The animal ethics reader, Routledge. 2003.
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67Kripke on proper namesIn A. French Peter, E. Uehling Theodore, Howard Jr & K. Wettstein (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 64-69. 1979.Kripke has argued that proper names, as rigid designators, cannot be equivalent in meaning to definite descriptions. in this paper, i argue that definite descriptions are sometimes used rigidly and that proper names are equivalent to definite descriptions used rigidly
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12Religious, Moral, & Sociological Issues: Some Basic DistinctionsHastings Center Report 8 (4): 13-13. 1978.
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5Which Lives and WhyHastings Center Report 25 (1): 48-49. 1995.Book reviewed in this article: Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It. By Frances Kamm.
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10Four. The Theory Of ChangeIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 71-83. 1981.
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