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Feeling Good and Doing Better

Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Thomas H. Murray

    1. Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

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  2. Willard Gaylin

    1. The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

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  3. Ruth Macklin

    1. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Feeling Good and Doing Better

    1. Feeling Good and Doing Better

      • Willard Gaylin
      Pages 1-10

  3. Social and Political Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Drug Abuse Policy and Social Attitudes to Risk-Taking

      • James B. Bakalar, Lester Grinspoon
      Pages 13-26

    3. The Social Dilemma of the Development of a Policy on Intoxicant Use

      • Norman E. Zinberg
      Pages 27-47

    4. Controlling the Uncontrollable

      • John P. Conrad
      Pages 49-64

    5. The State’s Intervention in Individuals’ Drug Use

      • Robert Neville
      Pages 65-80

  4. Pleasure and Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. The Use of Drugs for Pleasure

      • Dan W. Brock
      Pages 83-106

    3. Drugs, Sports, and Ethics

      • Thomas H. Murray
      Pages 107-126

  5. Privacy, the Constitution, and Drug Use

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Implications of the Constitutional Right of Privacy for the Control of Drugs

      • Robert Schwartz
      Pages 129-155

    3. Using and Refusing Psychotropic Drugs

      • Nancy K. Rhoden
      Pages 157-171

  6. Drugs, Models, and Moral Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Doctors, Drugs Used for Pleasure and Performance, and the Medical Model

      • Robert Michels
      Pages 175-185

    3. Drugs, Models, and Moral Principles

      • Ruth Macklin
      Pages 187-213

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 215-220
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About this book

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 Human Values, * The Hastings Center was able to sponsor such dialog as part of a major research into the ethics of drug use that spanned two years. We assembled a Research Group from leaders in the scientific, medical, legal, and policy com­ munities, leavened with experts in applied ethics, and brought them together several times a year to discuss the moral, legal and social issues posed by nontherapeutic drug use. At times we also called on other experts when we needed certain issues clarified. We did not try to reach a consensus, yet several broad areas of agreement emerged: That our society's response to nontherapeutic drug use has been irrational and inconsistent; that our attempts at control have been clumsy and ill-informed; that many complex moral values are entwined in the debate and cannot be reduced to a simple conflict between individual liberty and state paternalism. Of course each paper should be read as the statement of that particular author or authors. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily represent the views of The Hastings Center, the National Science Foundation, or the National En­ dowment for the Humanities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

    Thomas H. Murray

  • The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

    Willard Gaylin

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

    Ruth Macklin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Feeling Good and Doing Better

  • Book Subtitle: Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use

  • Editors: Thomas H. Murray, Willard Gaylin, Ruth Macklin

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5168-2

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Humana Press Inc. 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-061-9Published: 05 December 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9594-5Published: 04 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5168-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 220

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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