Medicine, medical ethics, and the value of life

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Medicine, medical ethics, and the value of life

edited by Peter Byrne

Wiley , Distributed in the United States of America, Canada, and Japan by Liss, c1990

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This work covers a wide range of issues while focusing on a series of related themes. These themes include the value of euthanasia and the value of human life, the relationship between medical ethics and clinical practice, the ethics of AIDS treatment and sex selection.

Table of Contents

  • Euthanasia in the Netherlands, H.J.J.Leenen
  • the BMA on euthanasia - the philosopher versus the doctor, Peter Byrne
  • the value of human life, Basil Mitchell
  • abortion, embryo research and fetal transplantation - their moral interrelationships, Sophie Botros
  • can medical ethics be taught?, Roger Higgs
  • teaching medical ethics - impressions from the USA, Raanan Gillon
  • the allocation of scarce medical resources - a democrat's dilemma, Albert Weale
  • AIDS and tolerance, Richard Harries
  • the ethics of sex selection, John Mahoney.

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