Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics
Subtitle: Cases and Concepts
Edition: 2 Sub edition
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 639
ISBN-13: 9780878407637
Subjects: Medical / Nursing; Medical; Ethics; Decision making; Medical Ethics
First sentence: It should be no surprise that ethicists disagree about the answer to this question.
Description: The author begins with an overview of ethical theory and argues for his own Aristotleian position before going on to apply this view to a wide range of issues within medical ethics. This second edition includes new chapters on managed care and medical genetics, as well as an extended chapter on virtue and decision making. It also addresses bioethical controversies which have arisen since the publication of the first edition, such as late-term abortion, cloning, germ-line genetic research, the human genome project, brain death, non-heart- beating organ donors, and physician-assisted suicide.