Human Dignity and Animal Well-Being A Kantian Contribution to Biomedical Ethics

includes index and biblioraphy

The object of study ................... ............... 12 Why Kant? .......................................... 14 Immediate problems in using Kant ..................... . 17 The method ................................................ 17 The relationship to other research ...................... 21 Ethical problems and normative positions .............. ...... 25 The foetus and the woman .......................... ...... 26 Foetal tissue and life-giving capacity ................... 2M Women, children and reproductive technologies ........ ... 40 Embryos¿potential for full-grown human lift; and toi iev;uch 47 Genetic intervention in human life .................... 52 Genetic intervention in animal life ............... . . . . . ... 62 Conclusion ................................................ 64 Arguments from utility and rights ............................. 66 Arguments from utility .................................. 66 Arguments from rights ...................................... 79 Kant`s ethical principles and duties ............................ 90 Kantian ethics in three parts ................................. 90 The human being with moral authority ....................... 93 The moral imperative at the maxim level ...................... 96 Duties for human beings in general ........................... 112 Some critical remarks ....................................... 121 Experience and moral competence ..................... 124 Teleology and reflective judgment ............................ 124 Determinant and reflective ethical judgment ................... 130 The perspective of care as a moral competence ................ 137 The identity of the moral self ................................ 142 To master the relationship between humanity and nature ........ 146 An articulation of our moral situation ........................ 150 Ktntitn ethics applied in the area of biomedicine ......... Human enough to be protected ........................ To take care of the less than perfect .................... Children¿but not by all means ........................ Genetic remedies for human diseases To master the relationship between humankind and nature