Bioethics

Kuhse, Helga. “Critical Notice: Why Killing is Not Always Worse—and is Sometimes Better—Than Letting Die.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7, no. 4 (1998): 371-374.

Lock, Margaret. “Technology in Extremis.” In Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 57-75. ISBN: 9780520228146.

Kaufman, Sharon. “Life Support.” Chapter 7 in And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780226426853. (Read pp. 236-255, 259-265.)

Stinson, Robert, and Peggy Stinson. “On the Death of a Baby.” Atlantic Monthly 244 (1979): 64-72.

Singer, Peter, and Helga Kuhse. “The Future of Baby Doe.” The New York Review of Books 31, no. 3 (1984): 17-22.

SES #: L7 · TOPICS: Are people organisms? · READINGS: Olson, Eric. “An Argument for Animalism.” Chapter 12 in Personal Identity . Edited by Raymond Martin and John Barresi. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. ISBN: 9780631234425.

Tooley, Michael. “Abortion and Infanticide.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 2, no. 1 (1972): 37-65.

Reagan, Leslie J. “‘About to Meet Her Maker’: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State’s Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940.” Journal of American History 77, no. 4 (1991): 1240-1264.

Oaks, Laury. “The New Rules of Pregnancy.” Chapter 2 in Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780813528885. (Read pp. 19-24, 38-52.)

SES #: L12 · TOPICS: Procreation and future people I · READINGS: Parfit, Derek. “The Non-Identity Problem.” Chapter 16 in Reasons and Persons . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 351-380. ISBN: 9780198249085.

SES #: L13 · TOPICS: Procreation and future people II · READINGS: Parfit, Derek. “The Repugnant Conclusion.” Chapter 17 in Reasons and Persons . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 381-390. ISBN: 9780198249085.

Kevles, Daniel J. “International Eugenics.” In Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race . Edited by Dieter Kuntz and Susan Bachrach. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780807829165.

Guterman, Lila. “Choosing Eugenics: How Far Will Nations Go to Eliminate a Genetic Disease?” Chronicle of Higher Education 49, no. 34 (2003): A22-A26.

Rogers, Michael. “The Pandora’s Box Congress.” Rolling Stone (June 19, 1975): 37-40, 42, 74, 77-78, and 82.

Rifkin, Jeremy. “Ultimate Therapy: Commercial Eugenics in the 21st Century.” Harvard International Review 27 (2005): 44-48.

SES #: L16 · TOPICS: Slippery slopes · READINGS: den Hartogh, Govert. “The Slippery Slope Argument.” Chapter 28 in A Companion to Bioethics . 2nd edition. Edited by Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse. New York, NY: Blackwell Publishing, 2009. ISBN: 9781405163316.

Elliot, Carl. Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream . New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2003. ISBN: 9780393052015. (Read pp. xv-xxi, 28-34, 50-53, and 119-128.)

Sandel, Michael J. “Bionic Athletes.” Chapter 2 in The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780674036383.

Annas, George J. “The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation.” American Journal of Public Health 72, no. 2 (1985): 187-189.

Ubel, Peter A. “The Necessity of Rationing Health Care.” In Contemporary Issues in Bioethics . 7th ed. Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, LeRoy Walters, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and Anna C. Mastroianni. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 9780495006732.

SES #: L22 · TOPICS: Valuing lives III · READINGS: Harris, John. “The Value of Life.” In The Value of Life . New York, NY: Routledge, 1985, pp. 87-102. ISBN: 9780710204370.

Colgrove, James, and Ronald Bayer. “Manifold Restraints: Liberty, Public Health, and the Legacy of Jabobson v Massachusetts.” American Journal of Public Health 95, no. 4 (2005): 571-576.

Knowles, John H. “The Responsibility of the Individual.” Daedalus 106 (1977): 57-80.