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Volume 165
Robert Ginsberg
Founding Editor
Peter A. Redpath
Executive Editor
Associate Editors
a volume in
Values in Bioethics
ViB
Matti Hyry and Tuija Takala, Edit
Matti Hyry, Tuija Takal
and Peter Herissone-Kelly, E
ISBN: 90-420-1655-8
Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2
Printed in the Netherlands
Foreword by John Harris
Preface
Index
initiative to fruitionhas very much come from
neighbors in Denmark and Finland: Matti Hyry, Tu
Holm. Although Sren has now moved a little South
called the Central West, he will remain an honorary M
of this volume are right to say that we have not
preceding volume the beginnings of an institution in
but also that we very clearly have, here in the North W
institution in European terms. Taken as a whole, the
bioethicists and medical lawyers can reasonably claim
largest and the most active centre for bioethics in Euro
The present volume addresses the social reality
could be more pressing and important at this time. Ma
questions that face humanity are related to the life sc
which those sciences may be used and abused by hum
social reality that faces us today, but the social rea
descendents, depends upon how we use the scientific a
that have been and are being developed. Indeed, how w
determine whether our descendentsboth in th
futureremain human beings, properly so called, or b
of persons that we will, in part, have created. Many cu
horror and distaste upon the prospect of changing the
humanity. In recent times Francis Fukuyama and Leon
eloquent appeals for the preservation of our speci
Jonathan Glover, myself, and Gregory Stock, have ta
approach to the desirability of what will be an
preservation of this particular species. We know tha
beings that now exist but all primates, gorillas, c
orangutans, and siamangs are descended from a comm
lived in Africa between 5,000,000 and 7,000,000 yea
ancestor had had the foresight or the power to take t
taken by Fukuyama or Kass, we would never have exis
of the preservation of humankind. As Richard Dawkin
out recently, we humans are not only apes, we are Afri
natural category which does not permit the artificial se
beings.
It is difficult to imagine a more important topic
the social reality of bioethics, the reality within which
will help to shape in the future. How we manage that
not only the nature of our lives and the shape of our so
very identity as self-conscious beings.
Sir David Alliance
Un
of England, at the universities of Central Lancashire, K
One book does not make a seriesbut two mi
beginnings of an institution.
Most chapters in this book are based on pres
Second North West Bioethics Roundtable (NorthW
Professor Sren Holm in Manchester on 3 February 2
thematically-related papers were solicited from scholar
the meeting, but whose work complements the origina
The sponsors of NorthWeb 2, and the ensuing bo
2. Classical Concerns
3. Developments
6. Educational Concerns
7. Blessed Confusion?
NOTES
NOTES
1. Duty to Die?
Suicide Physicia
Very private, individualistic act, Less private,
which requires only one person. act, which req
parties.
Full self-sufficiency of suicidal Partial self-suf
person given. volvement of p
Standardised, sociologically est- Reasons for
ablished reasons for suicide are sui-cide are m
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manifold. and perceived
of dignity am
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ill.
5. Conclusion
1. The Questions
What is freedom?
Why should freedom be respected?
What is autonomy?
Why should autonomy be respected?
6. Practical Implications
7. Autonomy or Freedom?
Alternatives (1) and (2) are open to those who buy into
autonomy, and they are both feasible responses, al
prescribing cannabis the formulation of (2) can be di
could represent a traditional, or communitarian, resp
attitudes and their conformity to the values of the soci
be paramount. Alternative (4) is my own favorite. It i
which rejects even rational self-determination be
paternalism implicit in the Kantian view.
One way to defend the ultra-liberal view would b
to say that no one should interfere with the individual
God. This defense does not necessarily summon any p
religion, or theology. It can be taken simply to mean
is an extremely valuable thing, and that attempts, by o
cannot add anything to its value. To use a metaphor
debates, we could say that others are trying to play G
their rationality should override our choices.
It remains to be added that even within t
restrictions of liberty can be justified, and attempts t
self-determination of others can be legitimate. Rest
justified, if freely chosen actions would inflict harm
who think that recreational drugs diminish the autonom
course, make their views known, and try to persuade o
But until somebody gives me good grounds f
my view in this and in similar cases is: Forget au
freedom!
8. Discussion
1. Introduction
2. Genetic Contributions
3. Labor
5. Conclusion
8. Conclusion
Acknowledgement
NOTES
1. Introduction
7. Consultation Exercises
9. Conclusion
NOTES
1. Introduction
A. Competence
NOTES
1. Introduction
NOTES
1. Business Ethics
NOTES
NOTES
2. Moral Progress
4. Ameliorative Change
NOTES
2. Metaethics
NOTES
1. Four Aims
NOTES
Takala, Tuija, 3
Taylor, Charles, 139140
Taylor, E. M., 100
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