Moral status : obligations to persons and other living things /
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| Author / Creator: | Warren, Mary Anne. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Issues in biomedical ethics Issues in biomedical ethics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11109065 |
| Summary: | Mary Anne Warren investigates a theoretical question that is at the center of practical and professional ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? That is, what does it take to be an entity towards which people have moral considerations? Warren argues that no single property will do as a sole criterion, and puts forward seven basic principles as criteria. She then applies these principles to three controversial moral issues: voluntary euthanasia, abortion, and the moral status of animals. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191588150 0191588156 058513653X 9780585136530 9780191681295 0191681296 0198236689 |