Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Toward understanding the principle of double effect / Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. -- Actions, intentions, and consequences: the doctrine of double effect / Warren S. Quinn -- Agent-relative morality / Thomas Nagel -- Medalist's address: action, intention, and 'double effect' / G.E.M. Anscombe -- Morality, action, and outcome / Philippa Foot -- Foreseen side effects versus intended consequences / Jonathan Bennett -- The doctrine of double effect: problems of interpretation / Nancy Davis -- The problem of abortion and the doctrine of the double effect / Philippa Foot -- Four versions of double effect / Donald B. Marquis -- Quinn on double effect: the problem of "closeness" / John Martin Fischer, Mark Ravizza, and David Copp -- The importance of proportionality condition to the doctrine of double effect: a response to Fisher, Ravizza and Copp / P.A. Woodward -- Affirmative action and the doctrine of double effect / William Cooney -- The doctrine of double effect and affirmative action / Jeff Jordan -- Affirmative action revisited: a response to Professor Jordan / William Cooney -- War and murder / G.E.M. Anscombe -- Double effect / Michael Walzer -- Suicide and self-sacrifice / Robert M. Martin -- Nuclear power, challenging non-utilitarian ethics / Stanislaus J. Dundon -- Morphine use for terminal cancer patients: an application of the principle of double effect / Greg Beabout.

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