Contemporary issues in bioethics

Author(s)

• Beauchamp, Tom L.
• Walters, LeRoy

Bibliographic Information

Contemporary issues in bioethics

edited by Tom L. Beauchamp & LeRoy Walters

Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1989

3rd ed.

Other Title

Bioethics

Note

Includes bibliographies

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book should be of interest to for people in the medical, welfare and legal fields who need to know about codes of practice and moral issues.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction to ethics. Ethical theory and bioethics. Bioethics as a field of ethics. Part II: Moral and conceptual foundations. Concepts of health and disease. Life, death and personhood. Part III: Life and death. Abortion. Euthanasia and the prolongation of life. Part IV: The patient-professional relationship. Patients' rights and professional responsibilities. The management of medical information. Part V: Biomedical research and technology. Research with human and animal subjects. Frontiers in biology and medicine. Part VI: Allocation and health policy. The allocation of medical resources. Health Policy. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA07388029
• ISBN:
  • 0534101828
• LCCN: 88027914
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Belmont, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 655 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R724
  • DC19 : 174/.2
  • NDC8 : 490.15
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical ethics