[3] Glover's book Causing Death and Saving Lives, first published in 1977, addresses practical moral questions about life and death decisions in the areas of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, choices between people, capital punishment, and issues of war and peace.
His approach is broadly consequentialist (utilitarian), though he gives significant weight to questions of individual autonomy, the Kantian notion that we ought to treat other people as ends in themselves rather than merely as means.
[4] He criticises the principle of double effect,[5] as well as the acts and omissions doctrine,[6] specifically the notion that there is a huge moral difference between killing someone and intentionally letting them die.
[9] In The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Sam Harris quotes Glover as saying: "Our entanglements with people close to us erode simple self-interest.
"[10] In 1989, the European Commission hired Glover to head a panel on embryo research and assisted reproduction.