The Basics of Bioethics - Softcover

Veatch Ph.D., Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130991619 ISBN 13: 9780130991614

Verlag: Pearson, 2002

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For health professional schools (Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health) and short undergraduate courses or course segments in Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Applied Ethics in departments of philosophy, religion, biology, and the social sciences.

Brief text provides a balanced, systematic framework to help students analyze wide range of controversial topics in medicine. Considers ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions. Topics include history of codes of ethics, abortion, animal rights and welfare, confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent, care of the terminally ill, genetics, birth technologies, and problems of social ethics, including resource allocation, organ transplant, and human subjects research.

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Robert M. Veatch, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Ethics and former director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, where he is also professor of philosophy and adjunct professor in the medical school. He has taught medical ethics at Georgetown, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Union College, and St. George's University School of Medicine. He was formerly Associate for Medical Ethics at the Hastings Center and is a registered pharmacist.

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Robert M. Veatch provides an introductory, comprehensive discussion of the major issues and theories in biomedical ethics. Developed from his own courses taught in schools of medicine and nursing, as well as undergraduate philosophy and religion courses, Veatch's text presents a systematic comparison of bioethical theory and examines the major issues faced in clinical and health policy settings.

New to the Second Edition!

• New opening chapter summarizing ethical theory as precursor to work in bioethics
• Completely updated treatment of new developments in bioethics, including laws on euthanasia in The Netherlands, a discussion of the Gelsinger Case (on gene therapy), and stem cell research
• New chapter on methods for resolving conflict among competing ethical principles
• All-encompassing chart detailing four major questions in ethics and their respective answers
• New chapter on virtues in the health professions

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pearson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0130991619
• ISBN 13: 9780130991614
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 205
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