The roots of bioethics
Subtitle: health, progress, technology, death
By: Daniel Callahan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199931378
Subjects: Euthanasia; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Collected Works; Ethics; Right to Die; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Hastings Center and the early years of bioethics; title: A memoir of an interdisciplinary career; title: Minimalist ethics; title: Individual good and common good; title: The WHO definition of health; title: End-of-life care : a management or philosophical problem?; title: Death, mourning, and medical progress; title: Terminating life-sustaining treatment for the demented; title: Killing and allowing to die : why it is a mistake to derive an 'is' from an 'ought'; title: Rationing : theory, passion, and politics; title: Consumer-directed health care : promise or puffery?; title: Social allocation of resources for patients with ESDR; title: Shaping biomedical research : the case of NIH; title: Time for a change : planning our medical future; title: Too much of a good thing : how splendid technologies can go wrong; title: Demythologizing the stem cell juggernaut; title: Health technology assessment implementation : the politics of ethics; title: Bioethics and fatherhood.