Description: John Harris: IntroductionBeginnings of Life1. Judith Jarvis Thompson: A Defence of Abortion2. Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer: Killing and Letting Die3. Warren Quinn: Abortion: Identity and LossEnd of Life4. Daniel Callahan: Terminating Life-Sustaining Treatment of the Demented5. Ruth Macklin: Which Way Down the Slippery Slope? Nazi Medical Killing and Euthanaisa Today6. Allen Buchanan: Advance Directives and the Personal Identity ProblemThe Value of Life7. Ronald Dworkin: What is Sacred?8. Eric Rakowski: Taking and Saving LivesAllocation of Scarce Resources and Quality of Life9. John Harris Allocation of Scarce Resources and Quality of Life: The Survival Lottery10. Norman Daniels: Health-Care Needs and Distributive Justice11. Derek Parfit: Equality or Priority?12. Dan Brock: Quality of Life Measures in Health Care and Medical EthicsFuture Generations13. Jonathan Glover: Future People, Disability and Screening14. Jeff McMahan: Wrongful Life: Paradoxes in the Morality of Causing People to ExistProfessional Ethics15. T.L.Beauchamp: Principalism and its Alleged Competitors16. Soren Holm: Not Just Autonomy - the Principles of American Biomedical Ethics17. Raanan Gillon: Telling the Truth, Confidentiality, Consent and Respect for AutonomyNotes on ContributorsSelect BibliographyIndex of Names

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