Precautionary Reasoning in Determining Moral Worth

Law and Bioethics: Current Legal Issues

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Smith, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Gewirthian agency theory; Personhood theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857533210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545520.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

References (9)

1. G Meilaender, Bioethics: A Primer for Christians (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2nd edn, 2005) 6
2. H Kuhse and P Singer, Should the Baby Live?: The Problem of Handicapped Infants (Oxford, 1985) 121.
3. J Harris, The Value of Life (London, 1985) 12-19.
4. J Harris, 'Final thoughts on final acts' in J Keown (ed), Euthanasia Examined (Cambridge, 1995), 58-9.
5. J Harris, 'The philosophical case against the philosophical case against euthanasia' in J Keown (ed), Euthanasia Examined (Cambridge, 1995) 36-45;
6. J Glover, Causing Death and Saving Lives (London, 1977) and Kuhse and Singer (n 3 above).
7. D Beyleveld and R Brownsword, Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (Oxford, 2001).
8. A previous version of this argument is presented by D Beyleveld and S Pattinson, 'Precautionary Reason as a Link to Moral Action' in M Boylan (ed) Medical Ethics (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000) 39-53.
9. MA Warren, Moral Status (Oxford, 1997) 3.