The Foundations of Bioethics

H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

1995 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-505736-2 (ISBN)

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This thoroughly and substantially revised second edition explores the full scope and content of secular bioethics. Abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic engineering, informed consent, advance directives, triage decisions, health care reform, and distributive justice are given new and provocative treatments within a systematic reassessment of the possibilities for a secular bioethics.

1. Introduction: Bioethics as a Plural Noun ; 2. The Intellectual Bases of Bioethics ; 3. The Principles of Bioethics ; 4. The Context of Health Care: Persons, Possessions, and States ; 5. The Languages of Medicalization ; 6. The Endings and Beginnings of Persons: Death, Abortion, and Infanticide ; 7. Free and Informed Consent, Refusal of Treatment, and the Health Care Allocations: Frustrations in the Face of Finitude ; 9. Reshaping Human Nature: Virtue with Moral Strangers, Responsibility Without Moral Consent

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.12.1995
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 160 mm
Gewicht	961 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-19-505736-8 / 0195057368
ISBN-13	978-0-19-505736-2 / 9780195057362
Zustand	Neuware