Bioethics: An Anthology

Eds, Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer Blackwell Publishers, £18.99, pp 600 ISBN 0 631 20311 7 Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] Peter Singer was a keynote speaker at the last annual meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities in Philadelphia. For various reasons, I had chosen this moment in the programme to duck out of the conference. I was completely unprepared for what greeted me as I left the hotel—protesters, many confined to wheelchairs, chanting “Less debate, more hate.” This, I discovered, was the disability activist group Not Dead Yet, which is incensed about Singer's stance that some people with disabilities are not “persons” and may be killed or allowed to die with impunity. It is rare … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif