Bioethics : An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice

Jecker, Nancy S., Pearlman, Robert A., Jonsen, Albert R.

ISBN 10: 0763743143 / ISBN 13: 9780763743147

Verlag: Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, 2007

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• Titel: Bioethics : An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice
• Verlag: Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0763743143
• ISBN-13: 9780763743147
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 2nd Edition.
• Zustand: Very Good

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Nancy S. Jecker is a philosopher and Professor of Ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Medical History and Ethics, where she also holds appointments in the Department of Philosophy and School of Law. Dr. Jecker has authored over 100 articles and chapters on ethics and health care, which have appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the Hastings Center Report, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and other publications. Dr. Jecker has conducted research as a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, the Georgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics, the Hastings Center, the Princeton University DeCamp Program in Ethics and the Life Sciences, and was twice awarded Rockefeller Resident Fellowships, by the University of Texas Medical Branch Institute for Medical Humanities and the University of Maryland Center for Philosophy and Public Policy.

One of the pioneers in the field of bioethics, Albert R. Jonsen, Ph.D, is Professor Emeritus of Ethics in Medicine in the Department of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington, Seattle. He chaired the department from 1987-1998. He came to the University of Washington from the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, where he had been Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics since 1972. Prior to that, he was President of the University of San Francisco, where he taught in the Departments of Philosophy and Theology.

Adjunct Professor in Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington, Seattle, Robert A. Pearlman, MD, MPH, was a Lecturer at Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Allied Health in 1977, and subsequently was an Acting Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 1978-1980. He was a member of the Associated University Physicians, 1978-1982, and a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, from 1981-1983. He was an Adjunct Instructor in Health Services at the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, 1981-1983, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 1983-1988.