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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Caplan, Arthur L., autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Wiley [1995]
Materias:
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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