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Bioethics
- Author : Nancy Ann Silbergeld Jecker,Albert R. Jonsen,Robert A. Pearlman
- Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
- Release : 19 January 2021
One of the only texts in the field to cover the history, methodology, and practice of bioethics. The text is broken into three informative sections: the first addresses the history or bioethics, explaining its emergences as discipline and discourse; the second looks carefully at ethical reasoning and the justification of moral beliefs; and the final section asks students to turn a critical eye to the topic of bioethics, including ethical issues that arise at the beginning and end of life.
An Introduction to Bioethics
- Author : Thomas Anthony Shannon
- Publisher : Paulist Press
- Release : 19 January 1997
In its third edition, this is a primer on the major bioethics issues of our time with helpful discussion questions and bibliography. All of the chapters have been revised and updated.
Bioethics: Asian Perspectives
- Author : 仁宗·邱
- Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
- Release : 19 January 2021
This is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars. The book unfolds a rich and colorful picture and addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics. It is of interest to senior undergraduate and graduate students, philosophers, physicians, scholars of Asian and culture studies, geneticists, sinologists, medical anthropologists, health administrators, and health officials.
Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics
- Author : L. W. Sumner,Joseph Boyle,Joseph M. Boyle
- Publisher : University of Toronto Press
- Release : 01 January 1996
The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional contexts of bioethics, addressing underlying concerns about the purposes of its practice.
The Foundations of Christian Bioethics
- Author : Hugo Tristram Engelhardt
- Publisher : Taylor & Francis
- Release : 19 January 2021
For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and the irremedial shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that
The Story of Bioethics
- Author : Jennifer K. Walter MD, PhD,Eran P. Klein MD, PhD
- Publisher : Georgetown University Press
- Release : 08 October 2003
This literally "refreshing" collection is based on the notion that the future of bioethics is inseparable from its past. Seminal works provide a unique and relatively unexplored vehicle for investigating not only where bioethics began, but where it may be going as well. In this volume, a number of the pioneers in bioethics—Tom Beauchamp, Lisa Sowle Cahill, James Childress, Charles E. Curran, Patricia King, H. Tristram Engelhardt, William F. May, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Warren Reich, Robert Veatch and LeRoy
Bioethics
- Author : Mark G. Kuczewski,Ronald M. Polansky
- Publisher : MIT Press
- Release : 19 January 2021
Contemporary bioethicists and scholars of ancient philosophy explore the import of classical ethics on such pressing bioethical concerns.
Bioethics
- Author : Megan-Jane Johnstone
- Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
- Release : 17 August 2011
The 5th edition of Bioethics provides nursing students with the necessary knowledge and understanding of the ethical issues effecting nursing practice. Groundbreaking in its first edition, Bioethics continues its role as a vital component of nursing education and provides a framework for students to understand the obligations, responsibilities and ethical challenges they will be presented with throughout their careers. This latest edition responds to new and emerging developments in the field and marks a significant turning point in nursing ethics
The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics
- Author : Peter A. Singer,A. M. Viens
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Release : 31 January 2008
Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, bioethicists, and advanced students seeking a better understanding of ethics problems in the clinical setting. Each chapter illustrates an ethical problem that might be encountered in everyday practice; defines the concepts at issue; examines their implications from the perspectives of ethics, law and policy; and then
Bioethics Beyond the Headlines
- Author : Albert R. Jonsen
- Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
- Release : 19 January 2021
Bioethics beyond the Headlines is a down-to-earth primer. You will not find convoluted philosophical arguments in this volume. Rather, you will find a sampling of the key concepts and debates in bioethics, including euthanasia, assisted reproduction, cloning and stem cells, neuroscience, access to healthcare, and even research on animals and questions of environmental ethics - areas typically overlooked in general introductions to bioethics.
Bioethics Yearbook
- Author : B. Andrew Lustig
- Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
- Release : 31 March 1997
As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral and religious traditions and in different regions of the world. It is often difficult, however, to obtain timely information about these matters. The Bioethics Yearbook series analyzes how such issues as new reproductive techniques, abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, care of seriously ill newborns, consent, confidentiality, equitable access, cost-containment, withholding and withdrawing treatment, euthanasia, the definition of death, and organ transplantation
Scratching the Surface of Bioethics
- Author : Matti Häyry,Tuija Takala
- Publisher : Rodopi
- Release : 19 January 2021
Is bioethics only about medicine and health care? Law? Philosophy? Social issues? No, on all accounts. It embraces all these and more. In this book, fifteen notable scholars from the North West of England critically explore the main approaches to bioethics—and make a scratch on its polished surface.
Practical Reasoning in Bioethics
- Author : James F. Childress
- Publisher : Indiana University Press
- Release : 22 March 1997
"This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics..." -- Journal of the American Medical Association "Childress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemporary biomedical challenges." -- Science Books & Films "An ideal supplement for a graduate seminar on bioethics or for upper-division undergraduates needing more information in this area." -- Choice In these revised and updated essays, renowned
Bioethics
- Author : Scott B. Rae,Paul M. Cox
- Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
- Release : 19 January 1999
The authors assess various secular approaches to bioethics that are particularly influential today and develop a framework for a Christian approach to assist people in addressing the many pressing issues in the field. Throughout, the authors touch on the numerous debated issues in bioethics though they are primarily concerned to give an account of the central theological notions crucial to an informed Christian perspective on bioethics.
Bioethics
- Author : Thomas Anthony Shannon
- Publisher : Paulist Press
- Release : 19 January 1993
"Issues in bioethics, medicine, and healthcare continue to plague us - as patients as consumers, as citizens. Here, under one cover, are thirty of the most current and perceptive articles, culled from key medical, ethical, philosophical, legal and theological journals. Dr. Shannon once again offers - to healthcare professionals and students alike - access to this decade's core bioethics questions, a spectrum of viewpoints, and a wealth of insight."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc.