Chapter 9 Suggested Readings and Media Resouces

Background information on the case discussed throughout the chapter:
Melvin D. Levine, Lee Scott, and William J. Curran, “Ethics Rounds in a Children’s Medical Center: Evaluation of a Hospital-Based Program for Continuing Education in Medical Ethics,” Pediatrics 60 (August 1977).

Utilitarianism:
J. J. C. Smart, “Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism,” Richard B. Brandt, “Toward a Credible Form of Utilitarianism,” and Alan Donagan, “Is There a Credible Form of Utilitarianism?” in Michael Bayles, ed., Contemporary Utilitarianism (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968).

Bernard Williams, “A Critique of Utilitarianism,” in J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams, eds., Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).

Deontology:
Christine Korsgaard, “Kant’s Formula of Universal Law,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1985): 24–47; “Kant’s Formula of Humanity,” Kant-Studien 77 (1986): 183–202, both reprinted with other essays in Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Applied Human Genetics/Genomics: Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Engineering:
Walter E. Nance, “Parables,” in Bonnie S. LeRoy and Arthur L. Caplan, eds., Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993), 89–94.

Liza Mundy, “A World of Their Own,” Washington Post, March 31, 2002, W22.

John F. Kilner, “The Ends Don’t Justify the Genes,” Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, July 19, 2002.
http://cbhd.org/content/ends-dont-justify-genes

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