Medical ethics
By: James D. Torr, book editor
Series: Current controversies
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780737701449; 9780737701456
Subjects: Miscellanea; Medical ethics; Medical Ethics
Description: As medical technology advances, doctors are faced with increasingly complex decisions about life and death. The authors in this anthology debate what principles should guide physicians' conduct in the following tentative chapters: What Ethics Should Guide Organ Donations? Are Reproductive Technologies Ethical? Is Human Cloning Ethical? Does Physician-Assisted Suicide Violate Medical Ethics?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. 164-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Should physicians ever hasten patients' deaths? --; title: What ethics should guide organ transplants? --; title: Are reproductive technologies ethical? --; title: What ethics should guide biomedical research?