The basics of bioethics
By: Robert M. Veatch
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780205765621
Subjects: Medical ethics; Bioethics; Bioethical Issues
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A map of the terrain of ethics; title: The Hippocratic Oath and it's challengers: a brief history; title: Defining death, abortion, stem cells, and animal welfare: the basis of moral standing; title: Problems in benefiting and avoiding harm to the patient; title: The ethics of respect for persons: lying, cheating, and breaking promises and why physicians have considered them ethical; title: The principle of avoiding killing; title: Death and dying: the incompetent patient; title: Social ethics of medicine: allocating resources, health insurance, transplantation, and human subjects research; title: Human control of life: genetics, birth technologies and modifying human nature; title: Resolving conflicts among principles; title: The virtues of bioethics.