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8The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics: 1750 to the Present (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2009.Business ethics raises many important philosophical issues. A first set of issues concerns the methodology of business ethics. What is the role of ethical theory in business ethics? To what extent, if at all, can thinking in business ethics be enhanced by philosophy, so as to provide real moral guidance? Another set of issues involves questions regarding markets, capitalism, and economic justice. There are related concerns about the nature of business organizations and the responsibilities they …Read more
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13An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1998.About HumeDavid Hume is one of the greatest of philosophers. Today he probably ranks highest of all British philosophers in terms of influence and philosophical standing. His philosophical work ranges across morals, the mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics; he had broad interests not only in philosophy as it is now conceived but in history, politics, economics, religion, and the arts. He was a master of English prose. The Clarendon Hume Edition General Editors: Professor T. L. Beaucha…Read more
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El concepto de consentimiento informadoBeauchamp T. And Walters L., Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Dickenson Publishing Company, Usa. forthcoming.
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266The 'four principles' approach to health care ethicsIn Richard E. Ashcroft (ed.), Principles of health care ethics, Wiley. 2007.
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21Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. (edited book)Oup Usa. 2011.Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.
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95The medical ethics of physician-assisted suicideJournal of Medical Ethics 25 (6): 437-439. 1999.
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99Methods and principles in biomedical ethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 29 (5): 269-274. 2003.The four principles approach to medical ethics plus specification is used in this paper. Specification is defined as a process of reducing the indeterminateness of general norms to give them increased action guiding capacity, while retaining the moral commitments in the original norm. Since questions of method are central to the symposium, the paper begins with four observations about method in moral reasoning and case analysis. Three of the four scenarios are dealt with. It is concluded in the …Read more
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38Self Inconsistency or Mere Self Perplexity?Hume Studies 5 (1): 36-44. 1979.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:36. A DISCUSSION ON PERSONAL IDENTITY Jane L. Mclntyre's original paper "Is Hume's Self Consistent?" was presented at the MoGiIl Hume Conference; it will be published in the forthcoming volume devoted to those preceedings. Tom Beauchamp" s paper is presented here as delivered. John Biro's paper has been revised since its original presentation. 37. SELF INCONSISTENCY OR MERE SELF PERPLEXITY? Professor Mclntyre's imaginative and constr…Read more
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32An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1999.Tom Beauchamp presents a new edition, designed especially for the student reader, of An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the classic work in which David Hume gave a general exposition of his philosophy to a broad educated readership. An authoritative new version of the text is preceded by a substantial introduction explaining the historical and intellectual background to the work and surveying its main themes. The volume also includes detailed explanatory notes on the text, a glossary of …Read more
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70The Research‐Treatment Distinction: A Problematic Approach for Determining Which Activities Should Have Ethical OversightHastings Center Report 43 (s1): 4-15. 2013.Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system “in which knowledge generation is so embedded into the core of the practice of medicine that it is a natural outgrowth and product of the healthcare delivery process and leads to continual improvement in care.” We applaud this conception, and in this paper, we put forward a new ethics framework for it. No such framework has previously been a…Read more
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61Internal and external standards for medical moralityJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 26 (6). 2001.What grounds and justifies conclusions in medical ethics? Is the source external or internal to medicine? Thee influential types of answer have appeared in recent literature: an internal account, an external account, and a mixed internal / external account. The first defends an ethic derived from either the ends of medicine or professional practice standards. The second maintains that precepts in medical ethics rely upon and require justification by external standards such as those of public opi…Read more
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7Refusals of treatment and requests for deathKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 6 (4): 371-374. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Refusals of Treatment and Requests for DeathTom L. Beauchamp (bio)It would be hard to overestimate the importance of two decisions on physician-assisted suicide delivered recently by the Ninth and Second Circuit Courts (Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, 79 F.3d 790 (9th Cir. 1996) (en banc), aff’g 850 F.Supp. 1454 (W.D. Wash. 1994), rev’g 49 F.3d 586 (9th Cir. 1995); Quill v. Vacco, 80 F.3d 716 (2nd Cir. 1996). They are the…Read more
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74An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical EthicsHastings Center Report 43 (s1): 16-27. 2013.Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system “in which knowledge generation is so embedded into the core of the practice of medicine that it is a natural outgrowth and product of the healthcare delivery process and leads to continual improvement in care.” We applaud this conception, and in this paper, we put forward a new ethics framework for it. No such framework has previously been a…Read more
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63Hume on Causal Contiguity and Causal SuccessionDialogue 13 (2): 271-282. 1974.Hume notoriously maintains that contiguity, succession, and constant conjunction are individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions of causation. While his arguments for the necessity of constant conjunction have been thoroughly dissected, his arguments for contiguity and succession have generally been either ignored or misstated. I hope both to correct this unfortunate state of affairs and to show some fatal defects in Hume's account.The pertinent passages in Hume's writings acknowled…Read more
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1Universal principles and universal rightsIn André den Exter (ed.), Human rights and biomedicine, Maklu. 2010.
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86Principlism and Its Alleged CompetitorsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 5 (3): 181-198. 1995.Principles that provide general normative frameworks in bioethics have been criticized since the late 1980s, when several different methods and types of moral philosophy began to be proposed as alternatives or substitutes. Several accounts have emerged in recent years, including: (1) Impartial Rule Theory (supported in this issue by K. Danner Clouser), (2) Casuistry (supported in this issue by Albert Jonsen), and (3) Virtue Ethics (supported in this issue by Edmund D. Pellegrino). Although often…Read more
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37Changes of climate in the development of practical ethicsScience and Engineering Ethics 8 (2): 131-138. 2002.
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30On causal irregularity: A reply to Dretske and SnyderPhilosophy of Science 40 (2): 285-287. 1973.
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111The Concept of Paternalism in Biomedical EthicsJahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 14 (1): 77-92. 2009.
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A Patient's Bill of RightsContemporary Issues in Bioethics (Belmont, Ca: Wadsworth Publishing Company,) 5th. forthcoming.
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73The Concept of Voluntary ConsentAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (8): 6-16. 2011.Our primary focus is on analysis of the concept of voluntariness, with a secondary focus on the implications of our analysis for the concept and the requirements of voluntary informed consent. We propose that two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions must be satisfied for an action to be voluntary: intentionality, and substantial freedom from controlling influences. We reject authenticity as a necessary condition of voluntary action, and we note that constraining situations may or may not …Read more
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