The basics of bioethics

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The basics of bioethics

Robert M. Veatch

Pearson Education, c2012

3rd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a balanced and systematic ethical framework to help students analyze a wide range of controversial topics in medicine, and consider ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions. The Basics of Bioethics covers the "Principalist" approach and identifies principles that are believed to make behavior morally right or wrong. It showcases alternative ethical approaches to health care decision making by presenting Hippocratic ethics as only one among many alternative ethical approaches to health care decision-making. The Basics of Bioethics offers case studies, diagrams, and other learning aids for an accessible presentation. Plus, it contains an all-encompassing ethics chart that shows the major questions in ethics and all of the major answers to these questions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Map of the Terrain of Ethics Chapter 2: The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History Chapter 3: Defining Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare: The Basis of Moral Standing Chapter 4: Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient Chapter 5: The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical Chapter 6: The Principle of Avoiding of Killing Chapter 7: Death and Dying: The Incompetent Patient Chapter 8: Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocation of Resources, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research Chapter 9: Human Control of Life: Genetics, Birth Technologies and Modifying Human Nature Chapter 10: Resolving Conflicts Among Principles Chapter 11: The Virtues in Bioethics Appendices: Hippocratic Oath Principles of Medical Ethics (2001))of the American Medical Association Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005)

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Details

  • NCID
    BB18496461
  • ISBN
    • 9780205765621
  • LCCN
    2011030636
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Upper Saddle River, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 205 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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