" "This book aims to help the reader steer a path through the often conflicting demands of personal belief, law, professional guidelines, ethical theories and common sense.
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Presents some of the major questions in medical ethics, including organ and tissue donation, transplants, caring for children, death and dying, economic factors, and the role of ethics committees.
Neil A. Holtzman and Michael S. Watson , eds . , Promoting Safe and Effective Genetic Testing in the United States : Final Report of the Task Force on Genetic Testing ( a task force of the U.S. National ...
The cases of Robinson and Davies Robinson does not give £100 to a charity that is helping to combat starvation in a poor country. As a result, one person dies of starvation who would have lived had Robinson sent the money.
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... Tod Linafelt HEGEL Peter Singer HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood THE HELLENISTIC AGE Peter Thonemann HEREDITY John Waller HERMENEUTICS Jens Zimmermann HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson HINDUISM Kim Knott HISTORY John ...
Despite the doctor's explanation of the importance of the questions , Allen refused to answer them . “ If people know I have AIDS , they'll shun me . My friends will leave me . I'll lose my teaching job . ” This placed Dr. Hunt in an ...
Dealing with some of the thorniest problems in medicine, from euthanasia to the distribution of health care resources, this book introduces the reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics.
Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases
The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the latest developments.
Now in its twentieth year of publication, this rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics.
Fourteen leading authorities in their respective fields provide the mo st comprehensive and current survey of issues in medical ethics ever w ritten. Each author is given the opportunity to...
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In this book, controversial topics such as the morality of abortion, withdrawing treatment from handicapped newborns, the role of ethics committees, diagnosing death, withdrawing food and fluids and giving lethal...
Perhaps the most famous case against the use of genetic engineering can be found in: M.J. Sandel 2007. The Case against Perfection. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Alternative ethical critiques of the potential of new ...
Issues in medical ethics are rarely out of the media and it is an area of ethics that has particular interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Therefore, this book is divided into two parts, the first comprehends theoretical considerations and the second, pragmatic and empirical data on, and discussions of, current problems.