Joseph Fletcher

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Joseph Fletcher is affiliated with the following schools: University of Virginia, Harvard University

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Joseph Fletcher

Philosophy

#299

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#676

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#136

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Social Philosophy

World Rank

#11

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Bioethics

#13

World Rank

#13

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Ethics

#14

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#21

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Francis Fletcher was an American professor who founded the theory of situational ethics in the 1960s, and was a pioneer in the field of bioethics. Fletcher was a leading academic proponent of the potential benefits of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics, and cloning. Ordained as an Episcopal priest, he later identified himself as an atheist.

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Joseph Fletcher's Published Works

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Situation Ethics: The New Morality (1966) (320)
The Mongols: Ecological and Social Perspectives (1986) (173)
Morals and medicine (1960) (119)
Indicators of Humanhood: A Tentative Profile of Man (1972) (116)
Humanhood: Essays in Biomedical Ethics (1979) (85)
Four indicators of humanhood - the enquiry matures. (1974) (65)
Ch'ing Inner Asia c. 1800 (1978) (61)
Ethics and euthanasia. (1973) (56)
Moral responsibility : situation ethics at work (1967) (49)
Morals and Medicine: The Moral Problems of the Patient's Right to Know the Truth, Contraception, Artificial Insemination, Sterilization, Euthanasia (1979) (48)
Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia (1995) (38)
CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA, 1368-1884 (1968) (34)
Principles of Biomedical Ethics. By Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. 314 pp. $13.95. $7.95 (paper) (1980) (25)
The heyday of the Ch'ing order in Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet (1978) (20)
Sino-Russian relations, 1800–62 (1978) (9)
Knowledge, Risk, and the Right to Reproduce (1980) (9)
Our Right to Die (1951) (7)
Euthanasia: Our right to die (1950) (7)
The "right" to live and the "right" to die: a Protestant view of euthanasia. (1974) (6)
Ethics and (1973) (5)
Chronic famine and the immorality of food aid: A bow to Garrett Hardin (1991) (4)
A doctor writes (1950) (4)
23. Ethics and Euthanasia (1977) (3)
Ethical considerations in biomedical research involving human beings. (1977) (3)
Ethics and recombinant DNA research. (1978) (3)
Sanctity of life vs quality of life. (1977) (3)
Joseph Fletcher : memoir of an ex-radical : reminiscence and reappraisal (1993) (2)
Sex Offenses: An Ethical View (1960) (2)
The Expansion of Russia in East Asia, 1857-1860 (1971) (2)
Manchu books in London : a union catalogue (1981) (2)
SEMINAR 1 Human Experiments—Some Questions of Ethics (1968) (1)
The case for active voluntary euthanasia. (1988) (1)
Christianity and property (1947) (1)
Human experiments--some questions of ethics. (1968) (1)
Virtue is a Predicate (1970) (1)
Brain death case. (1973) (1)
Preface to pastoral theology by Seward Hiltner (1958) (1)
Geriatric Psychiatry: The Case of the MI, DNR, ECT, NG, and DOD (1986) (1)
Responsible Decision Making (1971) (1)
A Prospect for Parsons (1971) (1)
A Source of The Erdeni-Yin Erike (1962) (0)
Samuel Howard Miller (1960) (0)
When should patients be allowed to die? Some questions of ethics. (1968) (0)
Book ReviewPrometheus Revisited. (1976) (0)
Book Review: The Protestant and Politics (1959) (0)
Ethical considerations in biomedical research involving human beings. (1977) (0)
The ethics of abortion. (1971) (0)
Book Review: Christian Faith and Communist Faith (1954) (0)
James Arnold Purdie (1959) (0)
Man in the Expository Mode. Book 5 (1980) (0)
Abortion and the true believer: private opinions should not be imposed by law. (1974) (0)
A moral philosophy of sex (1953) (0)
SEMINAR 2 PART 2: When Should Patients Be Allowed to Die?—Some Questions of Ethics (1968) (0)
The Human Agenda: By Roderic Gorney New York, Simon and Schuster, 1972. 698 pp. $12.95 (1973) (0)
Book Review: Modern Rivals to the Christian Faith (1957) (0)
From Ming to Chʻing : state, region, and individual in a period of conquest (1974) (0)
The man of the month (1953) (0)
Situation Ethics and Watergate (1975) (0)
Letter from Joseph Fletcher to Joshua Lederberg (1973) (0)
The Ethics of Genetic Control: Ending Reproductive Roulette.@@@Genetics and Social Structure: Mathematical Structuralism in Population Genetics and Social Theory. (1975) (0)
Psychology for Pastor and People, by John Sutherland Bonnell. 225 pp. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1948. $2.50 (1949) (0)
Book Review: Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Volume I, The Nineteenth Century in Europe (1959) (0)
Family dysfunction: East and west (1965) (0)
Reviews of current books (1955) (0)
The function of sex (1953) (0)
Book ReviewGenetic Fix. (1974) (0)
Book Review: Man in Rapid Social Change (1962) (0)
Reviews of current books (1959) (0)
Sex Ethics and the Kinsey Reports, by Seward Hiltner. 238 pp. New York, Association Press, 1953. $3.00 (1954) (0)
Euthanasia in the courts. (1987) (0)
Reviews of current books (1954) (0)
Defining Human Life: Medical, Legal and Ethical Implications. Papers Presented at a Conference Held March 11-13, 1982, in Houston, Texas.Margery W. Shaw , A. Edward Doudera (1984) (0)
Reviews of current books (1954) (0)
Reviews of current Books (1961) (0)
The Promethean project and pastoral care (1972) (0)
Reviews of current books (1971) (0)
The Hartford Declaration (1975) (0)
Medicine, Morals, and Religion (1974) (0)
Human Nature and Social Action (1948) (0)
Book Review and Notice: Come Let Us Play God (1971) (0)
Book Review: Christianity, Communism and History (1954) (0)
Frederic C. Wood, Jr. (1969) (0)
Tillich and ethics: The negation of law (1968) (0)
Pragmatists & doctrinaires. (1975) (0)
Reviews of current books (1963) (0)
Book Review: Christianity and Economic Problems (1957) (0)

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