The basics of bioethics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert M. Veatch and Laura Guidry-Grimes.
• Authors: Veatch, Robert M; Guidry-Grimes, Laura K
• Contents: List of Cases. List of Figures. Preface; 1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics The Levels of Moral Discourse; A Full Theory of Bioethics; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History The Hippocratic Tradition; The Collapse of the Hippocratic Tradition; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 3. The Basis of Moral Standing in Debates on Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare Persons, Humans, and Individuals: The Language of Moral Standing; Defining Death; Abortion; Human Stem Cells; The Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 4. Principle-based Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics Principle-based Approaches: Principlism; The List of Principles; Conflict Among Principles; Translating Principles to Rules; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 5. Alternative Approaches: Virtues, Casuistry and Narrative Ethics, Feminist Approaches, and Care Ethics Virtue- based Approaches; Casuistry and Narrative Ethics; Feminist Approaches; Care Ethics; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 6. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient Complications in Determining What Benefits Patients; The Problem of Medical Paternalism; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 7. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises, and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical The Principle of Fidelity and the Duty of Confidentiality; The Principle of Autonomy and the Doctrine of Informed Consent; The Principle of Veracity: Lying and the Duty to Tell the Truth; The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 8. The Principle of Avoiding Killing Active Killing Versus Allowing to Die; Stopping versus Not Starting; The Distinction between Direct and Indirect Killing; The Distinction between Ordinary and Extraordinary Means; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 9. Death and Dying for Patients Who Are Not Their Own Decision-makers Formerly Mentally Capable Patients; Patients Who Have Never Been Mentally Capable and Who Have No Available Family or Other Pre- existing Surrogates; Patients Who Have Never Been Mentally Capable and Have a Surrogate; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 10. Human Control of Life: Genetics and Modifying Human Nature Genetics as the Path to Playing God? The Human Genome Project; The Collection of Genetic Information and Lessons from Henrietta Lacks; Genetic Testing and Counseling; Genetic Screening; Genetic Engineering; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 11. Reproductive Choice and Advancing Technologies: Ethical Challenges in the Creation of Humans Procreative Autonomy: Possibilities and Limits; Abortion and Prenatal Testing; In Vitro Fertilization; Creating a Donor Child; Cloning; Key Concepts; Bibliography. 12. Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocating Resources, Health Insurance, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research The Need for a Social Ethic for Medicine; Allocation of Healthcare Resources; Health Insurance; Organ Transplantation; Research Involving Human Subjects; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Bibliography. Appendix ; Hippocratic Oath; Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005); Notes. Index.
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Publisher Details: New York, New York London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvii, 295 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 174.2; Medical ethics; Bioethics; Bioethical Issues; PHILOSOPHY / General; Bioethics; Medical ethics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429017551; 0429017553; 9780429507519; 0429507518; 9780429017544; 0429017545; 9780429017537; 0429017537
• Related ISBNs: 9781138580077; 9781138580084
• Notes: Note: Description based on print version record
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