Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases

✍ Scribed by Lewis Vaughn

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 785
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases explores the philosophical, medical, social, and legal aspects of key bioethical issues. Opening with a thorough introduction to ethics, bioethics, and moral reasoning, it then covers influential moral theories and the criteria for evaluating them. Integrating eighty-nine readings, numerous classic bioethical cases, and abundant pedagogical tools, this text addresses the most provocative and controversial topics in bioethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Brief Contents
Contents
Preface xii
Part 1. Principles and Theories
Chapter 1 moral reasoning in bioethics
Chapter 2 bioethics and moral theories
Part 2. Medical Professional and Patient
Chapter 3 paternalism and patient autonomy
Chapter 4 truth-telling and confidentiality
Chapter 5 informed consent
Chapter 6 human research
Part 3. Life and Death
Chapter 7 abortion
Chapter 8 reproductive technology
Chapter 9 genetic choices
Chapter 10 euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
Part 4. Justice and Health Care
Chapter 11 dividing up health care resources
Chapter 12 pandemic ethics
Chapter 13 race, racial bias, and health care
Appendix 749
Glossary 751
INDEX