Bioethics in the clinic Hippocratic reflections
"Gillett focuses on general and specific problems of clinical practice, particularly as they affect the physician-patient relationship. The author then addresses ethical problems related to both the end of life, including euthanasia, and the beginning of life, such as embryo and stem cell resea...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
[2004]
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004548499708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- The case of the empty head: cultures, values, and bioethics
- Hippocrates's children
- What is medical truth?
- Getting over informed consent
- Listening to the silences
- Surgeons, patients, and unnecessary holes in the head
- When good doctors do bad things
- Is AIDS the postmodern illness?
- Healthy bodies, the medical panoptikon, and alternative medicine
- The endings of life
- Ethics in limbo
- Euthanasia, the pause, and the last rights
- Ethics, embryos, and stem cell research
- Save the life of my child
- Joanna May revisited: the cloning debate
