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Bioethics beyond the headlines who lives? who dies? who decides? /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2005]
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vi, 209 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Online Access: | Table of contents - |
Contents:
- pt. I. Who lives? Who dies? Who decides? : an essay on ethics and bioethics
- pt. II. Clinical bioethics
- Topic 1. Defining death
- Topic 2. Forgoing life support : the quality of life
- Topic 3. Autonomy of the patient
- Topic 4. Euthanasia
- Topic 5. Organ transplantation
- Topic 6. Assisted reproduction
- Topic 7. Abortion
- pt. III. Scientific bioethics : the search for benefit
- Topic 8. Research with humans
- Topic 9. Genetics
- Topic 10. Neuroscience
- Topic 11. Cloning and stem cell research
- pt. IV. The wider world of bioethics
- Topic 12. Bioethics and the health care system
- Topic 13. Cultural bioethics
- Topic 14. Animal ethics
- Topic 15. Environmental ethics
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Précis of moral philosophy
- Appendix B. Précis of history of medical ethics
- Appendix C. The Frankenstein analogy
- Glossary.