Contemporary Debates in Bioethics
- ISBN-10
- 1444337149
- ISBN-13
- 9781444337143
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 536
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-10
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Authors
- Arthur L. Caplan, Robert Arp
Description
Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today’s top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century. Written in an engaging, debate-style format for accessibility to non-specialists Features general introductions to each topic that precede scholarly debates Presents the latest, cutting-edge thoughts on relevant bioethics ideas, arguments, and debates
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