A Companion to bioethics
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Blackwell
1998
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to philosophy
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991004451589706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conté: List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1 What is bioethics? A historical introduction 2 Ethical theory and bioethics 3 Bioethics and cultural diversity 4 Gender and bioethics 5 Religion and bioethics 6 Law and bioethics 7 A principle-based approach 8 An absolute rule approach 9 A Utilitarian approach 10 A virtue ethics approach 11 A care approach 12 A case approach 13 Personhood 14 Abortion 15 Mother-fetus conflict 16 Population issues 17 Assisted reproduction 18 Prenatal screening, sex selection and cloning 19 Gene therapy 20 Mapping the human genome 21 Creating and patenting new life forms 22 Genetic screening and counselling 23 Medical decisions at the end of life 24 Severely disabled newborns 25 Brain death, cortical death and persistent vegetative state 26 Advance directives 27 Voluntary euthanasia, suicide and physician-assisted suicide 28 The slippery slope argument 29 Micro-allocation: deciding between patients 30 Macro-allocation: dividing up the health care budget 31 Is there a right to health care and, if so, what does it encompass? 32 Organ transplantation 33 AIDS: individual and 'public' interests 34 AIDS: ethical issues in the developing world 35 Experimentation on human beings 36 Ethical issues in human experimentation 37 Experimentation on human embryos and fetuses 38 History and ethical regulation of animal experimentation: an international perspective 39 The moral status of animals and their use as experimental subjects 40 Confidentiality 41 Truth-telling 42 Informed consent and patient autonomy 43 Patients doubtfully capable or incapable of consent 44 Special issues facing nurses 45 Ethics committees and ethics consultants 46 How bioethics is being taught: a critical review
