The basics of bioethics
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The basics of bioethics
Prentice Hall, c2003
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
For health professional schools (Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health) and short undergraduate courses or course segments in Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Applied Ethics in departments of philosophy, religion, biology, and the social sciences.
Brief text provides a balanced, systematic framework to help students analyze wide range of controversial topics in medicine. Considers ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions. Topics include history of codes of ethics, abortion, animal rights and welfare, confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent, care of the terminally ill, genetics, birth technologies, and problems of social ethics, including resource allocation, organ transplant, and human subjects research.
Table of Contents
1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics.
2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History.
3. Defining Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare: The Basis of Moral Standing.
4. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient.
5. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical.
6. The Principle of Avoiding of Killing.
7. Death and Dying: The Incompetent Patient.
8. Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocation of Resources, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research.
9. Human Control of Life: Genetics, Birth Technologies and Modifying Human Nature.
10. Resolving Conflicts Among Principles.
11. The Virtues in Bioethics.
Appendix.
Hippocratic Oath.
Principles of Medical Ethics (2001))of the American Medical Association.
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