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The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine.

• Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology
• Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues
• Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality
• Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 1.41MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Rosamond Rhodes is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate School, CUNY. Leslie P. Francis is Professor of Philosophy and the Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine. Anita Silvers is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470680605
• Artikelnr.: 38205902

Rezensionen

"This volume...offers a rich array of perspectives from which to view the ethics of medicine. With twenty-three articles and a good deal of references for further reading, it will be a helpful tool for navigating the complex literature on the key issues in medical ethics." (Ethical Perspectives)"There has been an enormous gap in the literature of bioethics- theory. In the rush to resolve contentious moral questions,inadequate attention has been paid to the tools used to achieveinsight and answers. This important volume goes a long way towardproviding what has been too little in evidence in the field. TheGuide gives readers clear expositions of the normativerationales that leading thinkers in bioethics use to support theirpositions on a wide variety of timely issues. It is an invaluabletoolkit for all interested in bioethics."
-Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania

"This excellent collection of specially written papers isorganized in an innovative way that seeks to clear up a lot ofconfusion that comes from people talking past each other."
-Bernard Gert, Dartmouth College