Product Description: This volume contains all that the beginning reader or student needs to soundly grasp the ideas and issues involved in the field.

Product Description: This volume provides a critical introduction to contemporary attempts to base nursing ethics on a feminine "ethics of care". At the heart of this book is a philosophical and practical examination of what has come to be known as the "justice versus care" debate...read more

Product Description: Should a severely handicapped baby be allowed to die? Upon what should the decision be based? Who should make that decision? This is a practical and philosophical study of these issues. The authors analyze particular cases where decisions have been taken to sustain or end the life of such babies...read more

Product Description: New developments in reproductive technology have made headlines since the birth of the world's first in vitro fertilization baby in 1978. But is embryo experimentation ethically acceptable? What is the moral status of the early human embryo? And how should a democratic society deal with so controversial an issue, where conflicting views are based on differing religious and philosophical positions? These controversial questions are the subject of this book, which, as a current compendium of ideas and arguments on the subject, makes an original contribution of major importance to this debate...read more

Product Description: According to the "sanctity-of-life" view, all human lives are equally valuable and inviolable, and it would be wrong to base life-and-death medical decisions on the quality of the patient's life. Examining the ideas and assumptions behind the sanctity-of-life view, Kuhse argues against the traditional view that allowing someone to die is morally different from killing, and shows that quality-of-life judgments are ubiquitous...read more