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: Sren 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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