Intervention and reflection : basic issues in bioethics / Ronald Munson.
[Publisher-supplied data] In Intervention and reflection, nationally acclaimed bioethicist and novelist Ronald Munson masterfully weds clear and accurate accounts of complex scientific findings with case presentations whose vivid narrative helps students connect science with the human emotion behind...
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Boston, MA :
Wadsworth, Cengage Learning,
[2012]
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| Edition: | Ninth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Rights. Physicians, patients, and others: autonomy, truth-telling, and confidentiality ; Research ethics and informed consent
- Part II: Controls. Genetic control ; Reproductive control
- Part III: Terminations. Abortion ; Treating or terminating : the dilemma of impaired infants ; Euthanasia and assisted suicide
- Part IV: Resources. Organ transplants and scarce medical resources ; Distributing health care
- Part V: Challenges. Women and medicine ; African Americans and medicine ; Epidemic! AIDS and HIV
- Part VI: Foundations of bioethics : ethical theories, moral principles, and medical decisions.