Robert M. Prentice Hall, - Philosophy - pages. This brief summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help health professionals an lay people understand and analyze a wide range of topics that are currently controversial in Author: Robert M. Discover Prime Book Box for Kids. Is Death Ever Preferable to Life? Availability Not yet available.
Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy One person found this helpful. Plus, it contains an all-encompassing ethics chart that shows the major questions in ethics and all of the major answers to these questions. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. The topics are well-chosen and coverage [is] appropriate. A Brief History Chapter 3: Please review your cart. Presents students with current topics and new developments in clinical medicine and ethical analysis.
He covers both the accepted principles and the major controversies in a succinct fashion. A map of the terrain of ethics -- The levels of moral discourse -- The level of the case -- Rules and rights codes of ethics -- Normative ethics -- Metaethics -- A full theory of bioethics -- Key concepts -- Bibliography -- Works on basic ethics -- Works on biomedical ethics -- 2.
The Hippocratic oath and its challengers : a brief history -- The Hippocratic tradition -- The Hippocratic oath -- Modern codes in the Hippocratic tradition -- The collapse of the Hippocratic tradition -- Codes and oaths breaking with the Hippocratic tradition -- Sources from outside professional medicine -- Key concepts -- Endnotes for chapter 2 -- Bibliography -- 3.
Defining death, abortion, and animal welfare : the basis of moral standing -- Persons, humans, and individuals : the language of moral standing -- The concept of moral standing -- Moral and nonmoral uses of the term person -- Moral and nonmoral uses of the word human -- Defining death -- A cardiac definition of death -- A whole-brain-oriented definition of death -- The higher-brain definition of death -- Definitions and moral standing -- Abortion -- Symmetry between definition of death and abortion -- Possible basis for a breakdown in the symmetry -- The moral status of non-human animals -- Key concepts -- Endnotes for chapter 3 -- Bibliography -- The definition of death -- Abortion -- Moral standing of non-human animals -- 4.
Problems in benefiting and avoiding harm to the patient -- What counts as a benefit? The ethics of respect for persons : lying, cheating, and breaking promises and why -- Physicians have considered them ethical -- The principle of fidelity -- The ethics of confidentiality -- The principle of autonomy and the doctrine of informed consent -- The concept of autonomy -- Positive and negative rights -- Informed consent, autonomy, and therapeutic privilege -- Standards of disclosure for consent to be adequately informed -- The principle of veracity : lying and the duty to tell the truth -- The change in physician attitudes -- Accounting for the change in attitudes -- Key concepts -- Endnotes for chapter 5 -- Bibliography 6.
The principle of avoiding killing -- Active killing vs. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know. Download Now. By Robert M. Edition 3rd Edition. The Basic Bioethics series makes innovative works in bioethics available to a broad audience and introduces seminal scholarly manuscripts, state-of-the-art reference works, and textbooks.
Topics engaged include the philosophy of medicine, advancing genetics and biotechnology, end-of-life care, health and social policy, and the empirical study. Bioethics—The Basics by Alastair V. The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a balanced and systematic ethical framework to help students analyze a wide range of controversial topics in medicine, and consider ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions.
Accessible and enjoyable for readers of all backgrounds, the book contains numerous cases—including ones that recently have dominated international headlines—to help anchor the.
Robert M. Laura K. Guidry-Grimes, received her Ph.
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