Feeling Good and Doing Better Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use
The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to evoke diatribe than dialog. With the support of the Na tional Science Foundation's program on Ethics and Values in Science and Technology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities' program on Science, Technology, and Hum...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ
Humana
1984, 1984
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1984 |
| Series: | Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Feeling Good and Doing Better
- I: Social and Political Aspects
- Drug Abuse Policies and Social Attitudes to Risk Taking
- The Social Dilemma of the Development of a Policy on Intoxicant Use
- Controlling the Uncontrollable
- The State’s Intervention in Individuals’ Drug Use: A Normative Account
- II: Pleasure and Performance
- The Use of Drugs for Pleasure: Some Philosophical Issues
- Drugs, Sports, and Ethics
- III: Privacy, the Constitution, and Drug Use
- Implications of the Constitutional Right of Privacy for the Control of Drugs: An Introduction
- Using and Refusing Psychotropic Drugs
- IV: Drugs, Models, and Moral Principles
- Doctors, Drugs Used for Pleasure and Performance, and the Medical Model
- Drugs, Models, and Moral Principles