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Author: Jeff McMahan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780195169829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
Author: Ryan C. Jenkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0190495650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume collects influential and groundbreaking philosophical work on killing in war. A "who's who" of contemporary scholars, this volume serves as a convenient and authoritative collection uniquely suited for university-level teaching and as a reference for ethicists, policymakers, stakeholders, and any student of the morality of war.
Author: Torbjörn Tännsjö
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0190225580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen is it right to kill? Three ethical theories are examined, deontology, a moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing. In the final analysis, utilitarianism can best account for our considered intuitions about these kinds of killing.
Author: Tatjana Višak
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0199396086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. This volume presents a collection of contributions from major thinkers in ethics and animal welfare, with a special focus on the moral evaluation of killing animals.
Author: Seumas Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0190626135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional roles. Miller covers a variety of urgent and morally complex topics, including police shootings of armed offenders, police shooting of suicide-bombers, targeted killing, autonomous weapons, humanitarian armed intervention, and civilian immunity. -- Provided by publisher.
Author: Richard Norman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-02-09
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521455534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Norman looks at issues concerning the justification for war and thereby examines the possibility and nature of rational moral argument.
Author: Jeff McMahan
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-04-23
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0191563463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKilling a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.
Author: Bonnie Steinbock
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780823215621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection contains twenty-one thought-provoking essays on the controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between euthanasia and "letting die." Since public awareness of this issue has increased this second edition includes nine entirely new essays which bring the treatment of the subject up-to-date. The urgency of this issue can be gauged in recent developments such as the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands, "how-to" manuals topping the bestseller charts in the United States, and the many headlines devoted to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who has assisted dozens of patients to die. The essays address the range of questions involved in this issue pertaining especially to the fields of medical ethics, public policymaking, and social philosophy. The discussions consider the decisions facing medical and public policymakers, how those decisions will affect the elderly and terminally ill, and the medical and legal ramifications for patients in a permanently vegetative state, as well as issues of parent/infant rights. The book is divided into two sections. The first, "Euthanasia and the Termination of Life-Prolonging Treatment" includes an examination of the 1976 Karen Quinlan Supreme Court decision and selections from the 1990 Supreme Court decision in the case of Nancy Cruzan. Featured are articles by law professor George Fletcher and philosophers Michael Tooley, James Rachels, and Bonnie Steinbock, with new articles by Rachels, and Thomas Sullivan. The second section, "Philosophical Considerations," probes more deeply into the theoretical issues raised by the killing/letting die controversy, illustrating exceptionally well the dispute between two rival theories of ethics, consequentialism and deontology. It also includes a corpus of the standard thought on the debate by Jonathan Bennet, Daniel Dinello, Jeffrie Murphy, John Harris, Philipa Foot, Richard Trammell, and N. Ann Davis, and adds articles new to this edition by Bennett, Foot, Warren Quinn, Jeff McMahan, and Judith Lichtenberg.
Author: Robert Veatch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-04-10
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0199718997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPharmacists face ethical choices constantly -- sometimes dramatic life-and-death decisions, but more often subtle, less conspicuous choices that are nonetheless important. Among the topics confronted are assisted suicide, conscientious refusal, pain management, equitable distribution of drug resources within institutions and managed care plans, confidentiality, and alternative and non-traditional therapies. Veatch and Haddad's book, first published in 1999, was the first collection of case studies based on the real experiences of practicing pharmacists, for use as a teaching tool for pharmacy students. The second edition accounts for the many changes in pharmacy since 1999, including assisted suicide in Oregon, the purchasing of less expensive drugs from Canada, and the influence of managed care on prescriptions. The presentation of some cases is shortened, most are revised and updated, and two new chapters have been added. The first new chapter presents a new model for analyzing cases, while the second focuses on the ethics of new drug distribution systems, for example hospitals where pharmacists are forced to choose drugs based on cost-effectiveness, and internet based pharmacies.
Author: Louise Gray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-11-22
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1472938399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne woman's quest to find out what it really means to kill and eat animals.
