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Case against Perfection
Bok av Sandel Michael J Sandel
Futures of Reproduction : Bioethics and Biopolitics
Bok av Catherine Mills
Ethicsa For European Psychologists
Bok av Geoff Lindsay
Varieties of Empathy
Bok av Elisa Aaltola
The Cambridge handbook of applied psychological ethics
Bok av Mark M Leach
Choosing Tomorrow's Children : The Ethics of Selective Reproduction
Bok av Stephen Wilkinson
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Bok av Craig Paterson
Research Ethics in the Arab Region
Bok av Henry Silverman

Identified versus Statistical Lives : An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Bok av I Glenn Cohen
Human beings show a greater inclination to assist persons identified as being at high risk of great harm than to assist persons who will suffer similar harm but are not identified as yet. Does this effect constitute a virtue, or a vice? What explains the effect? What are the implications for policy?