Bioethical Prescriptions by Fm Kamm
Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made her among the most influential philosophers in this area. Kamm is known for her intricate, sophisticated, and painstaking philosophical analyses of moral problems generally and of bioethical issues in particular. This volume showcases these articles -- revised to eliminate redundancies -- as parts of a coherent whole. A substantive introduction identifies important themes than run through the articles. Section headings include Death and Dying; Early Life (on conception and use of embryos, abortion, and childhood); Genetics and Other Enhancements (on cloning and other genetic technologies); Allocating Scarce Resources; and Methodology (on the relation of moral theory and practical ethics).
Frances Kamm is the deepest, most sophisticated, and most fertile thinker in the entire field of bioethics* Jeff McMahan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University *
Frances Kamm's newest book, Bioethical Prescriptions, is a treasure trove of careful arguments and penetrating insight. * T.M. Scanlon, Harvard University, Journal of Medical Ethics *
...a must-read for anyone concerned with bioethics...her impressive, monumental work deserves attention. It can be used as a guidebook to bioethical arguments, as well as a textbook and source of numerous moral dilemmas. By following Kamm's argumentation, one can acquaint oneself with rigorous and detailed analytical thinking, which she presents on a masterly level. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
...it is extremely difficult not to be impressed with her powers of imagination and her moral perceptiveness. Many of the individual chapters brim with crucial insights, decisive counterexamples, and puzzling questions, and together they offer a top-notch deontological exploration into various matters of bioethics as well as into normative ethics in general...I strongly recommend it to students and scholars of bioethics as well as to philosophers interested in normative ethics in general. * Ethics *
F.M. Kamm's latest book has something in common with good psychological thrillers: plenty of unexpected twists and turns. They surprise you at first, but in the end you appreciate the author's design...The essays in BP grip the reader more firmly because the discussion is usually anchored in a concrete bioethical issue and each essay stands on its own...You have to read the book. It is profoundly thought-provoking - as painstakingly careful a work of applied ethics as I have found...I invite readers to discover for themselves the extraordinary twists and turns of Bioethical Prescriptions. * Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal *
Frances Kamm's newest book, Bioethical Prescriptions, is a treasure trove of careful arguments and penetrating insight. * T.M. Scanlon, Harvard University, Journal of Medical Ethics *
...a must-read for anyone concerned with bioethics...her impressive, monumental work deserves attention. It can be used as a guidebook to bioethical arguments, as well as a textbook and source of numerous moral dilemmas. By following Kamm's argumentation, one can acquaint oneself with rigorous and detailed analytical thinking, which she presents on a masterly level. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
...it is extremely difficult not to be impressed with her powers of imagination and her moral perceptiveness. Many of the individual chapters brim with crucial insights, decisive counterexamples, and puzzling questions, and together they offer a top-notch deontological exploration into various matters of bioethics as well as into normative ethics in general...I strongly recommend it to students and scholars of bioethics as well as to philosophers interested in normative ethics in general. * Ethics *
F.M. Kamm's latest book has something in common with good psychological thrillers: plenty of unexpected twists and turns. They surprise you at first, but in the end you appreciate the author's design...The essays in BP grip the reader more firmly because the discussion is usually anchored in a concrete bioethical issue and each essay stands on its own...You have to read the book. It is profoundly thought-provoking - as painstakingly careful a work of applied ethics as I have found...I invite readers to discover for themselves the extraordinary twists and turns of Bioethical Prescriptions. * Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal *
F.M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at Harvard University. She is the author of The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts (2012), Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, and War (2011), Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm (2007), Morality, Mortality, Vol. I: Death and Whom to Save from It (1993) and Vol. II: Rights, Duties, and Status (1996), and Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy (1992), all from Oxford University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190649616 |
| ISBN 10 | 0190649615 |
| Title | Bioethical Prescriptions |
| Author | Fm Kamm |
| Series | Oxford Ethics Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2016-12-08 |
| Number of pages | 616 |
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