The foundations of bioethics /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996
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Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : bioethics as a plural noun
- 2. The intellectual bases of bioethics
- 3. The principles of bioethics
- 4. The context of health care : persons, possessions, and states
- 5. The languages of medicalization
- 6. The endings and beginnings of persons : death, abortion, and infanticide
- 7. Free and informed consent, refusal of treatment, and the health care team : the many faces of freedom
- 8. Rights to health care, social justice, and fairness in health care allocations : frustrations in the face of finitude
- 9. Reshaping human nature : virtue with moral strangers and responsibility without moral content
- Index