9780130991614

The Basics of Bioethics

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ISBN13: 9780130991614

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Overview

This brief summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help health professionals an lay people understand and analyze a wide range of topics that are currently controversial in medicine or that are likely to arise in the future.Broad in scope, it considers ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions, including those of non-western cultures such as Asian religious and secular traditions. Topics include the history of codes of ethics; the definition of death, abortion, animal rights and welfare; problems in deciding what will benefit patients; confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent; the care of the terminally ill; genetics, birth technologies; and problems of social ethics, including resource allocation, organ transplant, and human subjects research.For use in allied health fields.

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9780130991614

ISBN-10

0130991619

Weight

0.70 Pounds

Dimensions

5.99 x 0.40 x 9.03 In

List Price

$56.20

Edition

2nd Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

205 pages

Publisher

Routledge

Published On

2002-09-27



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