The basics of bioethics
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The basics of bioethics
Routledge, 2020
4th ed
- : pbk
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First ed. published by Pearson Education, 2000
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition offers an easy-to-follow introduction to this dynamic field, intended for healthcare professionals, teachers, students, and anyone interested in bioethics. Accessible and enjoyable for readers of all backgrounds, the book contains numerous cases-including ones that recently have dominated international headlines-to help anchor the broader discussion. The text is suitable for use in short courses in schools of medicine, nursing, and other health professions; continuing professional education; various undergraduate departments; and adult education. Chapters are organized around common moral themes in order to help readers understand the values and other connections that tie together different positions in bioethics. This fourth edition adds a new chapter on alternative frameworks in bioethics, including narrative ethics and casuistry, feminist approaches, care ethics, and virtue ethics. Due to significant advances in genetics and reproductive possibilities, this new edition devotes a full chapter to each. The combined teaching, research, and clinical experience of the two authors helps make this edition current with the evolving field of bioethics, while still embedding the major issues in a systematic framework that allows readers easily to navigate the larger field.
Key Changes to the Fourth Edition:
* An added chapter on new and emerging approaches in bioethics, including those based on virtue ethics, casuistry and narrative ethics, feminist ethics, and care ethics
* Updates throughout the book based on developments in ethical theory and new medical research
* Revisions and updates to the Learning Objectives, Key Terms, Bibliographies, and URLs
* The addition of multiple recent case studies, including:
Jahi McMath
an undocumented patient who needs a rule bent
a pediatrician who turns away unvaccinated patients
a minor eligible for pediatric bariatric surgery
a daughter suing a hospital for non-disclosure of her father's Huntington's diagnosis
CRISPR-edited newborn babies
Table of Contents
1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics 2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History 3. The Basis of Moral Standing in Debates on Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare 4. Principle-based Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics 5. Alternative Approaches: Virtues, Casuistry and Narrative Ethics, Feminist Approaches, and Care Ethics 6. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient 7. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical 8. The Principle of Avoiding Killing 9. Death and Dying for Patients Who Are Not Their Own Decision-makers 10. Human Control of Life: Genetics and Modifying Human Nature 11. Reproductive Choice and Advancing Technologies: Ethical Challenges in the Creation of Humans 12. Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocating Resources, Health Insurance, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research
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