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Bioethical prescriptions

Frances Myrna Kamm: Bioethical prescriptions. To create, end, choose, and improve lives. Oxford University Press, 2014, 624 pp, £22.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-997198-5

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  1. See the discussion with D. Kahnemann in Ch. 3 in Voorhoeve (2009).

  2. For more elaborate discussion of the problem see Ch. 14 of her Intricate Ethics.

  3. Evil* here means “evil or involvement of a person without his consent when foreseeably this will lead to an evil to him.” Ibid. p. 133.

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  • Kamm, F. 2007. Intricate ethics. Rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Voorhoeve, A. 2009. Conversations of ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Neiders, I. Bioethical prescriptions. Med Health Care and Philos 19, 491–495 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-015-9674-1

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