Source Book in Bioethics: A Documentary History - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0878406832 ISBN 13: 9780878406838

Verlag: Georgetown University Press, 1998

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Government agencies and commissions, courts, and legislatures have during the past several decades produced reports, rendered decisions, and passed laws that have both defined the fundamental issues in the field of bioethics and established ways of managing them in our society. Providing a history of these key bioethical decisions, this "Source Book in Bioethics" is the first and only comprehensive collection of the critical public documents in biomedical ethics, including many hard-to-find or out-of-print materials.Covering the period from 1947 to 1995, this volume brings together core legislative documents, court briefs, and reports by professional organizations, public bodies, and governments around the world. Sections on human experimentation, care of the terminally ill, genetics, human reproduction, and emerging areas in bioethics include such pivotal works as "The Nuremberg Code", "The Tuskegee Report", and "In the Matter of Baby M", as well as less readily available documents as "The Declaration of Inuyama", the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences' statement on genetic engineering, and "The Warnock Committee Report" on reproductive technologies from the United Kingdom. Three eminent scholars in the field provide brief introductions to each document explaining the significance of these classic sources.This historical volume will be a standard text for courses in bioethics, health policy, and death and dying, and a primary reference for anyone interested in this increasingly relevant field.

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• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0878406832
• ISBN 13: 9780878406838
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 640
• Herausgeber: Jonsen Albert R., Veatch Robert M., Walters LeRoy B.