Life and Death
Philippa Foot, 7 August 1986
Voluntary Euthanasia
edited by A.B. Downing and Barbara Smoker.
Peter Owen, 303 pp., £14.95, February 1986,0 7206 0651 9 Show More
edited by A.B. Downing and Barbara Smoker.
Peter Owen, 303 pp., £14.95, February 1986,
Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine
edited by Michael Lockwood.
Oxford, 250 pp., £12.95, January 1986,0 19 217743 5 Show More
edited by Michael Lockwood.
Oxford, 250 pp., £12.95, January 1986,
“... Most professional philosophers think of themselves primarily as scholars, as hunters and gatherers in the field of understanding with no particular commitment to serve society in any other role. Yet some philosophers have lately found to their delight that they can be useful: indeed that their advice is actually sought by those who have to take decisions of policy or practice ... ”
