Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases - Couverture souple

Vaughn, Lewis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195182820 ISBN 13 : 9780195182828

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Vaughn offers a hybrid of text, readings and cases to provide a current, accessible introdution to the philosophical, medical, scientific, social and legal aspects of key bioethics issues. Topics covered include paternalism, patient autonomy, truth telling, informed consent, abortion, in vitro fertilisation, cloning, impaired infants, embryonic stem-cell dilemmas, genetic engineering, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, human and animal research, inequities in access to medical treatment, HIV/AIDS in Africa and health care costs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of several books, including: The Power of Critical Thinking, Third Edition (forthcoming from OUP, 9/09); How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, Fifth Edition (2007); Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues (2007); Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, Third Edition (2006); and Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays (OUP, 2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195182820
• ISBN 13: 9780195182828
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 696
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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