Bioethics

Oxford Readings in Philosophy

by John Harris (Editor)

Framed with a substantial introduction by renowned scholar John Harris, this enlightening work brings together key articles on biomedical ethics over recent years. Harris also provides detailed overviews of each piece included in the volume. Covering a fascinating range of subjects, it explores areas such as the beginning of life, the end of life, the quality of life, future generations, and professional ethics. It not only will appeal to philosophy students and researchers interested in practical ethics, bioethics or medical ethics but also anyone who cares about health care.

564 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

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Reviews

[Justine]

This guy is a utilitarian like none other- interesting stuff, and his discussion of methodologies in bioethics (and the role of moral philosophy and ethical analysis as the primary methodological tool) is fascinating. He also has a really interesting discussion about how the introduction of empirical methods (in order to give any research proposal a more tangible way to be evaluated for funding) is sort of ruining the field.