How to Treat Persons 1st Edition by Samuel Kerstein ISBN 0191652415 9780191652417

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ISBN 10: 0191652415 
ISBN 13: 9780191652417
Author: Samuel J. Kerstein

Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means, that is, ‘just uses’ the other and thereby acts wrongly. He takes his inspiration from Immanuel Kant’s ‘Formula of Humanity’, which commands that we treat persons never merely as means but always as ends in themselves, and then develops the ideas suggested by the Formula into clear moral principles. Kerstein questions the plausibility of an orthodox Kantian account of the dignity of persons, before going on to develop a new, detailed account of his own. Kerstein’s second main goal is to show how the Kantian principles he develops shed light on pressing issues in bioethics. He investigates how, morally speaking, scarce resources such as flu vaccine ought to be distributed–and he argues that allocating such resources in order to maximize benefits can be inconsistent with respecting persons’ dignity. The book explores the morality of regulated markets in organs, and contends that in many contexts, buying organs from live ‘donors’ fails to honour their dignity. Finally, it probes the ethics of conducting research on ‘anonymized’ biological samples, and of conducting placebo-controlled pharmaceutical trials in developing countries. How to Treat Persons champions the view that even if an agent gets another’s voluntary, informed consent to use parts of his body for transplantation or medical research, she might nevertheless be treating him merely as a means or failing to respect his dignity.

How to Treat Persons 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
1.1 Précis
1.2 Methodology
1.3 Persons
1.4 Concepts Akin to that of Treating Others Merely as Means
Part I: Principles
2. Death, Dignity, and Respect
2.1 Humanity as an End and Its Value
2.2 The Respect-Expression Approach to FH
2.3 Withdrawal of Medical Treatment
2.4 Self-Defense
2.5 Heroic Self-Sacrifice
3. The Mere Means Principle
3.1 Using Another
3.2 End Sharing
3.3 Rational Consent
3.4 Possible Consent
3.5 The Hybrid Account
3.6 Parfitian Objections to the Hybrid Account
4. Treating Consenting Adults Merely as Means
4.1 Voluntary, Informed Consent
4.2 Coercion
4.3 Shortcomings of Actual Consent?
4.4 From Actual toward Possible Consent
4.5 Orthodox Kantianism and Actual Consent
4.6 Just Using and Inducing Vulnerability
5. Dignity and the Mere Means Principle
5.1 Actual Consent and Treating Another Merely as a Means
5.2 A Necessary Condition for Treating Another Merely as a Means
5.3 Applying the Mere Means Principle
5.4 A Kant-Inspired Account of Dignity (KID)
5.5 Applying KID
5.6 Honoring Dignity as a Defeasible Constraint
Part II: Practice
6. Allocation of Scarce, Life-Saving Resources
6.1 The Equal Worth Account
6.2 The Respect-Expression Approach
6.3 KID
6.4 KID and Benefit-Maximizing
7. Markets in Kidneys
7.1 Treating Kidney Vendors Merely as Means
7.2 Market Exchange of Kidneys and the Dignity of Persons: KID
7.3 Market Exchange of Kidneys and Orthodox Kantianism
7.4 Autonomy and Markets in Kidneys
7.5 Alternatives to Markets in Organs
8. Medical Research
8.1 Research on “Anonymized” Biological Specimens
8.2 Using Biological Samples, Using Information, and Using Persons
8.3 Treating Contributors of Biological Samples Merely as Means
8.4 Drug Trials and the Poor Abroad
8.5 Drug Trials and Induced Vulnerability
8.6 Honoring Dignity and Drug Trials on the Poor Abroad
8.7 Concluding Remarks

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