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Medical Ethics: Course Readings

Dworkin, Ronald, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. 1997. Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief. New York Review of Books (March 27).

Glover, Jonathan. 1977. Causing Death, Saving Lives. New York: Penguin.

Harris, John. 1985. The Value of Life. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul.

Harris, John. 1987. QALYfying the Value of Life. Journal of Medical Ethics 13:117-123.

Harris, John. 1995. Double Jeopardy and the Veil of Ignorance - A Reply. Journal of Medical Ethics 21:151-157.

Harris, John. 1996. Would Aristotle Have Played Russian Roulette? Journal of Medical Ethics 22:209-215.

Kamm, F. M. 1993. Morality, Mortality Vol. 1: Death and Whom to Save from It. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lockwood, Michael. 1988. Quality of Life and Resource Allocation. In Philosophy and Medical Welfare, edited by J. M. Bell and S. Mendus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Marquis, Don. 1989. Why Abortion is Immoral. Journal of Philosphy 86 (4):183-202.

McKie, John, Helga Kuhse, Jeff Richardson, and Peter Singer. 1996a. Another Peep Behind the Veil. Journal of Medical Ethics 22:216-221.

McKie, John, Helga Kuhse, Jeff Richardson, and Peter Singer. 1996b. Double Jeopardy, the Equal Value of Lives and the Veil of Ignorance: A Rejoinder to Harris. Journal of Medical Ethics 22:204-208.

Norcross, Alastair. 1994. Introduction to the Second Edition. In Killing and Letting Die, edited by B. Steinbock and A. Norcross. New York: Fordham University Press.

Post, Stephen G. 1997. Should Health Care be Rationed by Age? In Controversial Issues in Aging, edited by A. E. Scharlach and L. W. Kaye. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Rachels, James. 1994a. Active and Passive Euthanasia. In Killing and Letting Die, edited by B. Steinbock and A. Norcross. New York: Fordham University Press.

Rachels, James. 1994b. More Impertinent Distinctions and a Defense of Active Euthanasia. In Killing and Letting Die, edited by B. Steinbock and A. Norcross. New York: Fordham University Press.

Rakowski, Eric. 1997. Should Health Care be Rationed by Age? In Controversial Issues in Aging, edited by A. E. Scharlach and L. W. Kaye. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Singer, Peter, John McKie, Helga Kuhse, and Jeff Richardson. 1995. Double Jeopardy and the use of QALYs in Health Care Allocation. Journal of Medical Ethics 21:144-150.

Singer, Peter A., and Mark Siegler. 1990. Euthanasia - A Critique. New England Journal of Medicine 322 (26):1881-1883.

Sullivan, Thomas D. 1994a. Active and Passive Euthanasia: An Impertinent Distinction? In Killing and Letting Die, edited by B. Steinbock and A. Norcross. New York: Fordham University Press.

Sullivan, Thomas D. 1994b. Coming to Terms: A Response to Rachels. In Killing and Letting Die, edited by B. Steinbock and A. Norcross. New York: Fordham University Press.

Taurek, John. 1977. Should the Numbers Count? Philosophy&Public Affairs 6:293-316.

Thomson, Judith Jarvis. 1971. A Defense of Abortion. Philosophy&Public Affairs 1:47-66.

Warren, Mary Anne. 1973. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion. The Monist 57:43-61.


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