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The basics of bioethics
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- ISBN: 9780205765621 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0205765629 (alk. paper)
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xvii, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Edition: 3rd ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Pearson Education, c2012.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A map of the terrain of ethics -- The Hippocratic oath and its challengers: a brief history -- Defining death, abortion, stem cells, and animal welfare: the basis of moral standing -- Problems in benefiting and avoiding harm to the patient -- The ethics of respect for persons: lying, cheating, and breaking promises and why physicians have considered them ethical -- The principle of avoiding killing -- Death and dying: the incompetent patient -- Social ethics of medicine: allocating resources, health insurance, transplantation, and human subjects research -- Human control of life: genetics, birth technologies and modifying human nature -- Resolving conflicts among principles -- The virtues in bioethics. |
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| Subject: | Medical ethics Bioethics Bioethical Issues Ethical Theory |
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