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., c1999

5th ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Representing all major points of view on the central topics in bioethics, this text contains current essays and actual medical and legal cases, providing readers with diverse views from many standpoints, including medical researchers and practitioners, legal experts, and philosophers.

Table of Contents

• Part I Introduction to ethics: ethical theory and bioethics. PART II Patient-professional relationships: rights and responsibilities
• the management of medical information. Part III The beginning and end of life: abortion and maternal-foetal relations
• the right to die. Part IV Access to health care: justice in the distribution of health care. Part V Biomedical research and technology: research involving human and animal subjects
• eugenics and human genetics 9
• reproductive technologies and surrogate parenting arrangements. Part VI Public health: the global AIDS epidemic.

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Details

• NCID: BA41809447
• ISBN:
  • 0534504760
• LCCN: 98048339
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Belmont, CA
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 786 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R724
  • DC21 : 174/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical ethics
  • LCSH : Bioethics