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The Basics of bioethics / Robert M. Veatch

By: Publication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, 2012.Edition: Third editionDescription: xvii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780205765621 (alk. paper)
  • 0205765629 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 174.2 23
LOC classification:
  • R 724 .V486 2012
NLM classification:
  • WB 60
  • 2011 L-474
Online resources:
Contents:
A map of the terrain of ethics -- The Hippocratic Oath and it's challengers: a brief history -- Defining death, abortion, stem cells, and animal welfare: the basis of moral standing -- Problems in benefiting and avoiding harm to the patient -- The ethics of respect for persons: lying, cheating, and breaking promises and why physicians have considered them ethical -- The principle of avoiding killing -- Death and dying: the incompetent patient -- Social ethics of medicine: allocating resources, health insurance, transplantation, and human subjects research -- Human control of life: genetics, birth technologies and modifying human nature -- Resolving conflicts among principles -- The virtues of bioethics
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Books Overnight Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Circulation Section R 724 .V486 2012 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0009093
Books Overnight Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Circulation Section R 724 .V486 2012 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0008552

Includes bibliographical references and index

A map of the terrain of ethics -- The Hippocratic Oath and it's challengers: a brief history -- Defining death, abortion, stem cells, and animal welfare: the basis of moral standing -- Problems in benefiting and avoiding harm to the patient -- The ethics of respect for persons: lying, cheating, and breaking promises and why physicians have considered them ethical -- The principle of avoiding killing -- Death and dying: the incompetent patient -- Social ethics of medicine: allocating resources, health insurance, transplantation, and human subjects research -- Human control of life: genetics, birth technologies and modifying human nature -- Resolving conflicts among principles -- The virtues of bioethics

School of Medicine

Ethics

Department of Community & Family Medicine

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