Intervention and Reflection
Basic Issues in Medical Ethics
8th Edition
Published on 30. March 2007
Book
Hardback
816 pages
978-0-495-09502-6 (ISBN)
Description
The most widely used medical ethics textbook today, Munson's INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION is a collection of the most up to date and influential articles addressing the most pressing contemporary debates in medical ethics. Also delivering a wide variety of timely and provocative cases for consideration, INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION provides you with the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the subject. The combination of the author's astute editing, a wide variety of cases provided alongside the social contexts in which they arise, and insightful commentaries makes this book accessible and provocative to students with no formal philosophical training as well as to students with more formal experience in philosophy and/or the medical professions.
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Edition
8th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 186 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-495-09502-6 (9780495095026)
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Content
PART I: RIGHTS. 1. Research Ethics and Informed Consent. 2. Physicians, Patients, and Others: Autonomy, Truth Telling, and Confidentiality. 3. HIV/AIDS. 4. Race, Gender, and Medicine. PART II: CONTROLS. 5. Genetic Control. 6. Reproductive Control. PART III: RESOURCES. 7. Scarce Medical Resources. 8. Paying for Health Care. PART IV: TERMINATIONS. 9. Abortion. 10. Impaired Infants and Medical Futility. 11. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide. PART V: FOUNDATIONS OF BIOETHICS: ETHICAL THEORIES, MORAL PRINCIPLES, AND MEDICAL DECISIONS. Notes and References.