The basics of bioethics
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Prentice Hall
[2003]
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| Edición: | Second edition |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004347279708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A map of the terrain of ethics
- The Hippocratic oath and its challengers : a brief history
- Defining death, abortion, and animal welfare : the basis of moral standing
- Problems in benefitting and avoiding harm to the patient
- The ethics of respect for persons : lying, cheating, and breaking promises and why
- The principle of avoiding killing
- Death and dying : the incompetent patient
- Social ethics of medicine : allocation of resources, transplantation, and human subjects research
- Human control of life : genetics, birth technologies and modifying human nature
- Resolving conflicts among principles
- The virtues in bioethics.
