Lanson lectures in bioethics (2016-2022) assisted suicide, responsibility, and pandemic ethics / Hon-Lam Li, editor.
| Other author | Li, Hon-Lam. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024] |
| Description | xix, 217 pages ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Assisted suicide, responsibility, and pandemic ethics |
| Contents | Introduction / Hon-Lam Li -- Part 1. The Inaugural Lanson Lecture. Two Concepts of Dignity / Jonathan Glover -- Commentary on "Two Concepts of Dignity" / Alastair V. Campbell -- Part 2. The Second Lanson Lecture. Four Arguments for Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Objections of Gorsuch / F. M. Kamm -- Commentary on "Four Arguments for Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Objections of Gorsuch" / Chun-Yan Tse -- Response to Chun-Yan Tse's Commentary / F. M. Kamm -- Part 3. The Third Lanson Lecture. Responsibility for Health and the Value of Choice / T. M. Scanlon -- Commentary on "Responsibility for Health and the Value of Choice" / Peter Chau -- Response to Peter Chau's Commentary / T. M. Scanlon -- Part 4. The Fourth Lanson Lecture. Treatment and Accountability / Victor Tadros -- Commentary on "Treatment and Accountability" / Derek Baker -- Response to Derek Baker's Commentary / Victor Tadros -- Part 5. The Fifth Lanson Lecture. Pandemic Ethics: Five Lessons / Peter Singer -- Commentary on "Pandemic Ethics: Five Lessons" / Alexandre Erler-- Response to Alexandre Erler's Commentary / Peter Singer. |
| Summary | The present volume collects the first five lectures delivered by five preeminent moral philosophers between 2016 and 2022. In the inaugural lecture, Jonathan Glover draws a distinction between two conceptions of dignity, and brings it to bear on the issues of assisted suicide, embryo research, and genetic choices. F. M. Kamm argues that doctors are morally permitted to intentionally cause death, or assist in its being intentionally caused, when either death is imminent anyway and intentionally causing it can alone stop the pain, or ifthe patient has already decided--not unreasonably--that death is his least bad option. Are smokers who contract lung cancer entitled to state-supported healthcare? T. M. Scanlon argues that the reasons that individuals have for wanting to have the opportunity to engage in activities involving risks need to be compared with the costs society has to bear to provide healthcare for those who suffer illness or injury as a result of these activities. Rejecting Strawson's view that a psychiatrist can only "treat" an insane patient, Victor Tadros argues that it is often right to reason with (nonresponsible) mentally ill persons because a psychiatrist needs to see things from their perspectives, and that we should communicate to nonresponsible agents that their wrongdoing is a problem for them and for their victims. Peter Singer proposes solutions to the following questions: How to distribute scarce medical resources and vaccines ethically? Whether to relax the standard for volunteers willing to participate in vaccines research? How to compare the trade-off between saving lives and saving the economy regarding lockdowns? How to prevent pandemics in future? Each lecture is followed by a critical commentary by a moral philosophers or physician in Asia. Each commentary (except the inaugural lecture) is followed by a rejoinder. -- Publisher |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783031420511 (hardbound) |
| ISBN | 3031420519 (hardbound) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
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