(H/B) THE FOUNDATIONS OF BIOETHICS

Παρουσίαση

This thoroughly and substantially revised second edition explores the full scope and content of secular bioethics. Abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic engineering, informed consent, advance directives, triage decisions, health care reform, and distributive justice are given new and provocative treatments within a systematic reassessment of the possibilities for a secular bioethics. (From the publisher)

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Περιεχόμενα

1.: Introduction: Bioethics as a Plural Noun
2.: The Intellectual Bases of Bioethics
3.: The Principles of Bioethics
4.: The Context of Health Care: Persons, Possessions, and States
5.: The Languages of Medicalization
6.: The Endings and Beginnings of Persons: Death, Abortion, and Infanticide
7.: Free and Informed Consent, Refusal of Treatment, and the Health Care Allocations: Frustrations in the Face of Finitude
9.: Reshaping Human Nature: Virtue with Moral Strangers, Responsibility Without Moral Consent