James Lindemann Nelson

Hippocrates' Maze

Ethical Explorations of the Medical Labyrinth

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Produktbeschreibung

In Nelson's typically inviting and graceful style, the essays collected in Hippocrates' Maze explore the labyrinth of contemporary health care, and arrive at some unusual findings about death and decisionmaking, justice and families, cloning and kinship, and organ donation and intimacy. However, the book's most distinctive conclusions concern bioethics itself: the field is not best seen solely as a source of good advice to doctors, but rather as a way of better understanding our humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780742513846
• ISBN-10: 074251384X
• Artikelnr.: 21702771

Autorenporträt

By James Lindemann Nelson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Meaning of the Act: Relationship,
Meaning and Identity in Prenatal Genetic Screening Chapter 3 Agency by
Proxy Chapter 4 Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities
and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care Chapter 5 Death's Gender
Chapter 6 'Everything Includes Itself in Power:' Power, Theory and the
Foundations of Bioethics Chapter 7 A Duty to Donate? Selves, Societies and
Organ Procurement Chapter 8 Cloning, Families, and the Reproduction of
Persons