
The Basics of Bioethics
Robert M. Veatch(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 18. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-0-13-083976-3 (ISBN)
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Description
For short undergraduate courses or course segments in Bioethics and Ethics in departments of Philosophy and Religion; Social Problems courses in Sociology departments; and courses in Medical Ethics or Biomedical Ethics in Medical schools and Schools of Nursing.
This brief summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help students understand and analyze a wide range of topics that are currently controversial in medicine-or that are likely to arise in the future. Broad in scope, it considers ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions, including those of non-western cultures such as Asian religious and secular traditions. Topics include the history of codes of ethics; the definition of death, abortion, animal rights and welfare; problems in deciding what will benefit patients; confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent; the care of the terminally ill; genetics, birth technologies; and problems of social ethics, including resource allocation, organ transplant, and human subjects research.
This brief summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help students understand and analyze a wide range of topics that are currently controversial in medicine-or that are likely to arise in the future. Broad in scope, it considers ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions, including those of non-western cultures such as Asian religious and secular traditions. Topics include the history of codes of ethics; the definition of death, abortion, animal rights and welfare; problems in deciding what will benefit patients; confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent; the 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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
243 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-083976-3 (9780130839763)
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Content
1. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History.
2. Defining Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare: The Basis of Moral Standing.
3. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient.
4. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Breaking Promises, Cheating, and Lying and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical.
5. The Principle of Avoidance of Killing.
6. Death and Dying: The Incompetent Patient.
7. The Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocation of Resources, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research.
8. Human Control of Life: Genetics, Birth Technologies and Modifying Human Nature.
Appendix: Hippocratic Oath.
Appendix: Principles of Medical Ethics (1980) of the American Medical Association.
Index.
2. Defining Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare: The Basis of Moral Standing.
3. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient.
4. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Breaking Promises, Cheating, and Lying and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical.
5. The Principle of Avoidance of Killing.
6. Death and Dying: The Incompetent Patient.
7. The Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocation of Resources, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research.
8. Human Control of Life: Genetics, Birth Technologies and Modifying Human Nature.
Appendix: Hippocratic Oath.
Appendix: Principles of Medical Ethics (1980) of the American Medical Association.
Index.