Life Choices: A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics, Second Edition (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series) - Softcover

 
9780878407576: Life Choices: A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics, Second Edition (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 087840757X ISBN 13: 9780878407576
Verlag: Georgetown University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

An authoritative introduction to bioethics, Life Choices examines a comprehensive range of ethical questions and brings together some of the most probing and instructive essays published in the field.

Some of the articles are classics in the literature of bioethics, while others address current issues. Topics include moral decision making, abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, life-sustaining technologies, organ transplantation, reproductive technologies, and the allocation of health care resources.

This second edition features new sections on the goals and allocation of medicine and on the cloning of human beings. It also includes new articles on genetics, the duty to die, and ethical theory.

Written by the foremost authorities in bioethics, Life Choices provides a comprehensive introduction to the field. Instructors who have used the first edition as a text will welcome this new, updated edition. Scholars and health care practitioners will find it useful as a valuable reference on a wide range of bioethical issues.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph H. Howell is director of instructional technology at Pensacola Junior College. William Frederick Sale is chair of the social science division and associate professor of philosophy at Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, Florida.

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Verlag
Georgetown University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
087840757X
ISBN 13 
9780878407576
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
616
Herausgeber
Howell Joseph H., Sale William Frederick
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