F.M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at Harvard University. She is the author of The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts (2012), Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, and War (2011), Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm (2007), Morality, Mortality, Vol. I: Death and Whom to Save from It (1993) and Vol. II: Rights, Duties, and Status (1996), and Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy (1992), all from Oxford University Press.

• IntroductionAcknowledgments Part I: Death and DyingChapter 1 Rescuing Ivan Ilych: How We Live and How We DieChapter 2 Conceptual Issues Related to Ending LifeChapter 3 Problems with "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief"Chapter 4 Four-Step Arguments for Physician-Assisted Suicide and EuthanasiaChapter 5 Some Arguments by Velleman Concerning Suicide and Assisted SuicideChapter 6 Brody on Active and Passive EuthanasiaChapter 7 A Note on Dementia and Advance DirectivesChapter 8 Brain Death and Spontaneous Breathing Part II: Young LifeChapter 9 Using Human Embryos for Biomedical ResearchChapter 10 Ethical Issues in Using and Not Using Human Embryonic Stem CellsChapter 11 Ronald Dworkin's Views on AbortionChapter 12 Creation and Abortion ShortChapter 13 McMahan on the Ethics of Killing at the Margins of LifeChapter 14 Some Conceptual and Ethical Issues in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Part III: Genetic and Other EnhancementsChapter 15 Genes, Justice, and Obligations to Future PeopleChapter 16 Moral Status, Personal Identity, and Substitutability: Clones, Embryos, and Future GenerationsChapter 17 What Is and Is Not Wrong with Enhancement Part IV: Allocating Scarce ResourcesChapter 18 Health and EquityChapter 19 Health and Equality of OpportunityChapter 20 Is it Morally Permissible to Discontinue NonFutile Use of a Scarce Resource?Chapter 21 Aggregation, Allocating Scarce Resources, and Discrimination Against the DisabledChapter 22 Rationing and the Disabled: Several ProposalsChapter 23 Learning from Bioethics: Moral Issues in Rationing Non-Medical Scarce Resources Part V: MethodologyChapter 24 The Philosopher as Insider and OutsiderChapter 25 Theory and AnalogyChapter 26 Relations between High Theory, Low Theory, and Applying Applied EthicsChapter 27 Understanding, Justifying, and Finding Oneself Index

Frances Kamm is the deepest, most sophisticated, and most fertile thinker in the entire field of bioethics.