The Basics of bioethics / Robert M. Veatch
Publication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, 2012.Edition: Third editionDescription: xvii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780205765621 (alk. paper)
- 0205765629 (alk. paper)
- 174.2 23
- R 724 .V486 2012
- WB 60
- 2011 L-474
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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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