Moral matters ethical issues in medicine and the life sciences
Discussion of key medical ethical issues of this decade: abortion(medical and surgical) test tube babies, waste of resources, euthanasia, AIDS, violence, homosexuality, gene scares, nicotine and other drugs, diets, lying and fraud research among others
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Formato: | Libro |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Wiley
[1995]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Abortion, contraception, sexuality and the family
- Infertility and technological reproduction
- Relationships between health care providers and those in their care
- The right to refuse medical treatment
- Defining death, euthanasia and the right to die
- AIDS, epidemics, public health and population
- Genetics
- Rationing and the distribution of scarce medical resources
- The ethics of experimentation
- Virtue and vice in biomedical science