Contemporary Issues in Bioethics - Softcover

Beauchamp, Tom L.; Walters, LeRoy; Kahn, Jeffrey P.; Mastroianni, Anna C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495006734 ISBN 13: 9780495006732

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics presents a breadth of issues and balanced coverage of the most important topics in bioethics, including human reproduction, euthanasia and assisted suicide, genetics, the right to health care, organ transplantation, human and animal research, and planning for threats to public health. With a diverse range of classic and contemporary essays written by scholars in bioethics and judges in landmark legal cases, this anthology will help you understand issues from a variety of perspectives.

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He received graduate degrees from Yale University (Divinity) and Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in in philosophy 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and in the mid-70s accepted a joint appointment at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 1976, he joined the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he wrote the bulk of The Belmont Report (1978). Dr. Beauchamp's research interests are in Hume and the history of modern philosophy and practical ethics, especially biomedical ethics and business ethics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0495006734
• ISBN 13: 9780495006732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 816