Bioethics: The Basics - Hardcover

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2014

"This concise, precise, and inexpensive book contains a trove of information useful for both general health sciences audiences and laypersons wanting a clear introduction to ethical issues in health. Each of these chapters is relevant to any health profession, not only medicine. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - M.M. Gilllis, CHOICE

"After going through many volumes of philosophy and increasing number of papers published in bioethics journals, I continued to crave for something that was easy to read, understand and above all make my students understand and apply in their daily work in the field of healthcare. I must say that with this slim pocketbook by one of the foremost exponent of bioethics, Prof. Campbell, my search for something that I can recommend to my students has ended." - Amar Jesani, Asian Bioethics Review

Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include:

• The range of moral theories underpinning bioethics
• Arguments for the rights and wrongs of abortion, euthanasia and animal research
• Healthcare ethics including the nature of the practitioner-patient relationship
• Public policy ethics and the implications of global and public health

Concise, readable and authoritative, this is the ideal primer for anyone interested in the study of bioethics.