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Product Description: At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/ pro-life" group it is the life of the fetus itself...read more
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9780691642758 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/ pro-life" group it is the life of the fetus itself.
9780691072623 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1980, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Discusses the liberal and conservative positions on abortion, suggests an alternative position and points out the philosophical basis for each viewpoint
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9780691615240 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/ pro-life" group it is the life of the fetus itself.
Product Description: Ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are very much on the public agenda in many jurisdictions. In this timely book L.W. Sumner addresses these issues within the wider context of palliative care for patients in the dying process...read more
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9780199607983 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 21, 2011), cover price $70.00
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9780199687473 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 24, 2013), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are very much on the public agenda in many jurisdictions.
Product Description: In a series of landmark decisions since 1990, Canadian courts have shaped a distinctive approach to the regulation of obscenity, hate literature, and child pornography. Missing from the debate, however, has been any attempt to determine whether the legal status quo can be justified by reference to a framework of moral/political principles...read more
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9780802042392 | Univ of Toronto Pr, November 20, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In a series of landmark decisions since 1990, Canadian courts have shaped a distinctive approach to the regulation of obscenity, hate literature, and child pornography.
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9780802080837 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 29, 2004, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: In a series of landmark decisions since 1990, Canadian courts have shaped a distinctive approach to the regulation of obscenity, hate literature, and child pornography.
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9780198244400 | Clarendon Pr, November 14, 1996, cover price $150.00
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9780198238782 | Clarendon Pr, April 15, 1999, cover price $55.00
How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems? How are we to understand the role of bioethics in the health care system, government, and academe? This collection of original essays raises these and other questions about the nature of bioethics as a discipline. The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional contexts of bioethics, addressing underlying concerns about the purposes of its practice. Included are extended analyses of such important issues as the conduct of clinical trials, euthanasia, justice in health care, the care of children, cosmetic surgery, and reproductive technologies. (view table of contents)
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9780802007711 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $55.00
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9780802071392 | Univ of Toronto Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems?
Product Description: What does it mean for someone to have a moral right to something? What kinds of creatures can have rights, and which rights can they have? While rights are indispensable to our moral and political thinking, they are also mysterious and controversial; as long as these controversies remain unsolved, rights will remain vulnerable to skepticism...read more
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9780198247517 | Clarendon Pr, October 29, 1987, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: What does it mean for someone to have a moral right to something?
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9780198248743 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1989), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: What does it mean for someone to have a moral right to something?
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