The Basics of Bioethics

Veatch, Robert

ISBN 10: 0130991619 / ISBN 13: 9780130991614

Published by Routledge, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Basics of Bioethics
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130991619
• ISBN 13: 9780130991614
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This brief summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help health professionals an lay people understand and analyze a wide range of topics that are currently controversial in medicine or that are likely to arise in the future.Broad in scope, it considers ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions, including those of non-western cultures such as Asian religious and secular traditions. Topics include the history of codes of ethics; the definition of death, abortion, animal rights and welfare; problems in deciding what will benefit patients; confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent; the care of the terminally ill; genetics, birth technologies; and problems of social ethics, including resource allocation, organ transplant, and human subjects research.For use in allied health fields.

About the Author

Robert M. Veatch, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Ethics and former director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, where he is also professor of philosophy and adjunct professor in the medical school. He has taught medical ethics at Georgetown, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Union College, and St. George's University School of Medicine. He was formerly Associate for Medical Ethics at the Hastings Center and is a registered pharmacist.