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The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics
Steinbock, Bonnie University at Albany, State University of New York
Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956241-1
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




5 ‘Reinventing’ the Rule of Double Effect
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199562411.003.0006

Daniel P. Sulmasy
Abstract: The Traditional Formulation of the RDE – Two Significant Errors – A Reformulation of the Rule of Double Effect – The Action Theory Underlying This Reformulation of the RDE – Conditions for Rationally Distinguishing Between Intended and Foreseen Events – Application to Cases – Consideration of Possible Objections – Conclusion



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Daniel P. Sulmasy is Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at St Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, and Professor of Medicine and Director of the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. His latest books are The Rebirth of the Clinic and A Balm for Gilead: Mediations on Spirituality and the Healing Arts (both Georgetown University Press, 2006).
 
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Full Book Contents
Introduction
I Theoretical and Methodological Issues
1 Methods in Bioethics
2 The Way We Reason Now: Reflective Equilibrium in Bioethics*
3 Autonomy
4 Mental Disorder, Moral Agency, and the Self*
5 ‘Reinventing’ the Rule of Double Effect
II Justice and Policy
6 Policy-Making in Pluralistic Societies*
7 Tiers Without Tears: the Ethics of a Two-Tier Health Care System
8 Justice and the Elderly
III Bodies and Bodily Parts
9 Organ Transplantation
10 Biobanking
11 For Dignity or Money: Feminists on the Commodification of Women's Reproductive Labour*
IV The End of Life
12 The Definition of Death
13 The Aging Society and the Expansion of Senility: Biotechnological and Treatment Goals
14 Death is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents*
15 Precedent Autonomy, Advance Directives, and End-of-Life Care
16 Physician-Assisted Death: the State of the Debate
V Reproduction and Cloning
17 Abortion Revisited*
18 Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos: Implications for Stem Cell Research*
19 Therapeutic Cloning: Politics and Policy
VI Genetics and Enhancement
20 Population Genetic Research and Screening: Conceptual and Ethical Issues*
21 Enhancement
22 Genetic Interventions and The Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings
23 Pharmacogenomics: Ethical and Regulatory Issues
VII Research Ethics
24 Clinical Equipoise: Foundational Requirement or Fundamental Error?
25 Research on Cognitively Impaired Adults
26 Research in Developing Countries
27 Animal Experimentation
VIII Public and Global Health
28 The Implications of Public Health for Bioethics
29 Global Health
30 Bioethics and Bioterrorism
Index
 
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