The Basics of Bioethics

3. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-205-76562-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

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. The Basics of Bioethics covers the “Principalist” approach and identifies principles that are believed to make behavior morally right or wrong. It showcases alternative ethical approaches to health care decision making by presenting Hippocratic ethics as only one among many alternative ethical approaches to health care decision-making. The Basics of Bioethics offers case studies, diagrams, and other learning aids for an accessible presentation. Plus, it contains an all-encompassing ethics chart that shows the major questions in ethics and all of the major answers to these questions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Veatch, Robert M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: A Map of the Terrain of Ethics

Chapter 2: The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History

Chapter 3: Defining Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare: The Basis of Moral Standing

Chapter 4: Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient

Chapter 5: The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical

Chapter 6: The Principle of Avoiding of Killing

Chapter 7: Death and Dying: The Incompetent Patient

Chapter 8: Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocation of Resources, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research

Chapter 9: Human Control of Life: Genetics, Birth Technologies and Modifying Human Nature

Chapter 10: Resolving Conflicts Among Principles

Chapter 11: The Virtues in Bioethics

Appendices:

Hippocratic Oath

Principles of Medical Ethics (2001))of the American Medical Association

Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005)

Über Autor(innen)

Robert M. Veatch, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Ethics and former director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, where he is also professor of philosophy and adjunct professor in the medical school. He has taught medical ethics at Georgetown, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Union College, and St. George's University School of Medicine. He was formerly Associate for Medical Ethics at the Hastings Center and is a registered pharmacist.