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Organ Transplantation and Utilitarianism

This paper examines organ donation from the viewpoint of utilitarianism in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Improving Organ Donation Through Clarification and Education

biology alone (Koppelman, 2003). It involves equally complex realms of metaphysics, social values, and religious beliefs (Koppelm...

Organ Transplants, Distributive Justice and the Allocation of Scarce Resources

billboard space, placed classified ads, appeared on talk radio and television shows to bring his situation into the public conscio...

Transplantation of Organs and Ethics

encourage organ donations and the wisdom of encouraging healthy people to risk their health by donating organs to strangers (Scott...

The Controversies of Stem-cell Research and its Importance in Organ Transplantation

physicians are able to implant new organs into human beings, that could possibly alter the human condition. Therapeutic cloning c...

Organ Trafficking

even a heart; cannot help but appreciate the phenomenal accomplishments that have evolved in modern medicine. While at one time t...

Ethical Issues/Organ Donation

involved Nurses are often the healthcare practitioners who have the closest communication with patients and their families; there...

Organ Donations, Transplants, and Ethical Issues

full well that once they are dead, their organs are of no further use to them. Typically, when asked for a reason, the most commo...

Issues in the Donation of Organs

consciousness that permits the individual to continue his or her own life in the mortal body of another by being an organ donor. ...

1800 to 1910 Church Organs of England

to the nineteenth century, the pipe organ was predominant, but it soon found a formidable rival in the reed organs that were being...

Ethics of Organ Transplantation

Considerations and Positions One commonly held ethical position is that espoused by utilitarians, whose ultimate champion is John...

Stem Cell Research and Organ Transplantation

though the use of morphine in these amounts would ultimately result in my uncles death, in reality there were few other options th...

Consequentialist and Nonconsequentialist Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplantation

that there are positive consequences in organ transplant. Organ transplant gives life to those previously destined to an early de...

The U.S. Decision to Invade Iraq in 2003, Justified with References to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Nagel and the Principles of Utilitarianism

rule-utilitarianism. Act-utilitarianism "supposes that each particular action should be evaluated solely by references to its own ...

Act Utilitarianism and Rule Utilitarianism

In six pages this essay defines utilitarianism and then attempts to answer 'Does rule utilitarianism collapse into act utilitarian...

Types of Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper defines the philosophy of utilitarianism and differentiates between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism. ...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Immorality of Deforestation Questioned

of an action is determined only by the welfare of individuals (2003). It is important to note that this topic involves the environ...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

Ethical Theories and Norma Rae

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

Resources and Programs Pertaining to the Donation of Organs

to compatibility (medical), such as such as size and blood type, the medical emergency situation and the location of the donor/tra...

Human Organ Sales in the United States and China

Human Organ Sales," 2008). The partys national director Steve Dasbach, believes that online sales could be the difference between ...

Organ Donation and How it Can be Improved

by potential donors and family members of potential donors, and inadequate communication between health care professionals and lay...

The Medical and Ethical Considerations of Organ Transplant

The ability to transplant a human organ from one body to another is one of the...

Organ Donation and Prisoners

In five pages this paper considers organ donation in an examination of ethics, relevant issues, consent and as it relates to priso...

Organ's Ancient History

In six pages this paper discusses the organ in an historical overview of how it was invented and continues on up to its New World ...

Deontology and Utilitarianism

direct encounter with value occurs in the experience of pleasure. Delight or felt satisfaction was, according to his official vie...

The Distinction Between Persons and the Principles of Utilitarianism

causes them to prefer intellectual pleasures over sensual ones. He continues in his thinking to assume that the principle of utili...

Morals, Utilitarianism and William Frankena

deem as acceptable. The concept of a rational society, in which the entire community is greatly influenced by principles its mem...

The Demands of Utilitarianism

the expense of so many others? Indeed not, inasmuch as Sarahs mistake cannot be expected to cost one hundred innocent lives over ...