Essays on Bioethics

For this volume eminent moral philosopher R. M. Hare has selected the best of his writings on medical ethics and related topics. The book's chief theoretical interest lies in its synthesis between utilitarian and Kantian ethics. The book's main practical thesis is that we can harm possible people by preventing them from becoming actual people. Hare offers general introductions to medical and psychiatric ethics, as well as essays on the concept of health, on the morality of experimentation on children, on health care policy, on free will, and on vegetarianism.