The foundations of bioethics

Author(s)

• Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram)

Bibliographic Information

The foundations of bioethics

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Oxford University Press, 1996

2nd ed

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This thoroughly and substantially revised second edition explores the full scope and content of secular bioethics. Abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic engineering, informed consent, advance directives, triage decisions, health care reform, and distributive justice are given new and provocative treatments within a systematic reassessment of bioethics as a whole.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction: Bioethics as a Plural Noun
• 2. The Intellectual Bases of Bioethics
• 3. The Principles of Bioethics
• 4. The Context of Health Care: Persons, Possessions, and States
• 5. The Languages of Medicalization
• 6. The Endings and Beginnings of Persons: Death, Abortion, and Infanticide
• 7. Free and Informed Consent, Refusal of Treatment, and the Health Care Allocations: Frustrations in the Face of Finitude
• 9. Reshaping Human Nature: Virtue with Moral Strangers, Responsibility Without Moral Consent

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Details

• NCID: BA26049541
• ISBN:
  • 0195057368
• LCCN: 94025267
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 446 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R724
  • DC20 : 174/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical ethics
  • LCSH : Bioethics