This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent--and yet
in some respects most neglected--problems in bioethics: decisionmaking for incompetents …

Objective.—To evaluate the role of genetic testing in screening for hereditary
hemochromatosis to help guide clinicians, policymakers, and researchers. Participants.—An …

This book articulates a systematic vision of an international legal system grounded in the
commitment to justice for all persons. It provides a probing exploration of the moral issues …

This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists and first published in 2000,
was the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the …

We articulate a global public standard for the normative legitimacy of global governance
institutions. This standard can provide the basis for principled criticism of global governance …

This important study, the first book-length treatment of an increasingly crucial topic, treats the
moral issues of secession at two levels. At the practical level, Professor Buchanan develops …

The term 'political legitimacy'is unfortunately ambiguous. One serious source of confusion is
the failure to distinguish clearly between political legitimacy and political authority and to …

Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories,
be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and …

As liberal political regimes have been the dominant form of political organization in the West,
so liberalism has prevailed in Anglo-American political philosophy. In the past few years …

In The Law of Peoples, Rawls provides the long-awaited extension of his theory of justice
beyond the individual state. Rawls modifies his hypothetical contract device so that the …