Offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic world of bioethics, intended for healthcare professionals, teachers, and anyone interested in the field. This updated edition adds new chapters that capture theoretical developments and technological advances.
Offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic world of bioethics, intended for healthcare professionals, teachers, and anyone interested in the field. This updated edition adds new chapters that capture theoretical developments and technological advances.
Robert M. Veatch is Senior Research Scholar and Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus, and former Director at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 60 books including Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics (2012), Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics (with Amy Haddad and Dan English, 2015), Transplantation Ethics (with Lainie F. Ross, 2015), and Defining Death: The Case for Choice (with Lainie F. Ross, 2016). Laura K. Guidry-Grimes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She also works as a clinical ethics consultant at the UAMS Hospital and Arkansas Children¿s. She co-edited Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics (with Jamie Carlin Watson, 2018).
Inhaltsangabe
1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics 2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History 3. The Basis of Moral Standing in Debates on Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare 4. Principle-based Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics 5. Alternative Approaches: Virtues, Casuistry and Narrative Ethics, Feminist Approaches, and Care Ethics 6. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient 7. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical 8. The Principle of Avoiding Killing 9. Death and Dying for Patients Who Are Not Their Own Decision-makers 10. Human Control of Life: Genetics and Modifying Human Nature 11. Reproductive Choice and Advancing Technologies: Ethical Challenges in the Creation of Humans 12. Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocating Resources, Health Insurance, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research
1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics 2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History 3. The Basis of Moral Standing in Debates on Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare 4. Principle-based Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics 5. Alternative Approaches: Virtues, Casuistry and Narrative Ethics, Feminist Approaches, and Care Ethics 6. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient 7. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical 8. The Principle of Avoiding Killing 9. Death and Dying for Patients Who Are Not Their Own Decision-makers 10. Human Control of Life: Genetics and Modifying Human Nature 11. Reproductive Choice and Advancing Technologies: Ethical Challenges in the Creation of Humans 12. Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocating Resources, Health Insurance, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research
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