This clear and incisive book provides the ideal critical synthesis of the best thinking on one of the most important moral, social, and political issues of our time: the role ...

This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent problems in bioethics: decision-making for incompetents.

Our society has long sanctioned, at least tacitly, a conflict of interest in medical practice and research as an unavoidable consequence of the different interests of the ...

"The sudden addition, within two years after Japan's surrender, of more than six million people to a population already overcrowded and facing a prolonged period of general ...

The political and ideological turmoil of the late 1960's stimulated among Anglo-American philosophers a new interest in applying moral philosophy to the problems of ...