Intervention and reflection: basic issues in medical ethics

by Munson, Ronald

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Full title :Intervention and reflection : basic issues in medical ethics / [selected by] Ronald Munson.

Summary

The most widely used medical ethics textbook today, Munson's INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION is a collection of the most up to date and influential articles addressing the most pressing contemporary debates in medical ethics. Also delivering a wide variety of timely and provocative cases for consideration, INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION provides you with the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the subject. The combination of the author's astute editing, a wide variety of cases provided alongside the social contexts in which they arise, and insightful commentaries makes this book accessible and provocative to students with no formal philosophical training as well as to students with more formal experience in philosophy and/or the medical professions.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.
Edition:8th ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Thomson Higher Education
Place of Publication:Belmont, CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780495095026, 0495095028
oclc:ocn140670748
LC Classification:R724

Part I. Rights -- 1. Research ethics and informed consent -- 2. Physicians, patients, and others: autonomy, truth telling, and confidentiality -- 3. HIV/AIDS -- 4. Race, gender, and medicine -- Part II. Controls -- 5. Genetic control -- 6. Reproductive control -- Part III. Resources -- 7. Scarce medical resources -- 8. Paying for health care -- Part IV. Terminations -- 9. Abortion -- 10. Treating or terminating: the dilemma of Impaired infants -- 11. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Part V. Foundations of bioethics: ethical theories, moral principles, and medical decision.