ISBN: 9780130991614

This "brief" summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help health professionals an lay people understand and analyze "a w… More...

This "brief" summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help health professionals an lay people understand and analyze "a wide range" of topics that are currently controversial in medicine-or that are likely to arise in the future. Broad in scope, it considers ethical systems from "various" religious and secular traditions, including those of non-western cultures such as Asian religious and secular traditions. Topics include the history of codes of ethics; the definition of death, abortion, animal rights and welfare; problems in deciding what will benefit patients; confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent; the care of the terminally ill; genetics, birth technologies; and problems of social ethics, including resource allocation, organ transplant, and human subjects research. For use in allied health fields. Media > Book, [PU: Prentice Hall]<

ISBN: 9780130991614

This "brief" summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help health professionals an lay people understand and analyze "a w… More...

This "brief" summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help health professionals an lay people understand and analyze "a wide range" of topics that are currently controversial in medicine-or that are likely to arise in the future. Broad in scope, it considers ethical systems from "various" religious and secular traditions, including those of non-western cultures such as Asian religious and secular traditions. Topics include the history of codes of ethics; the definition of death, abortion, animal rights and welfare; problems in deciding what will benefit patients; confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent; the care of the terminally ill; genetics, birth technologies; and problems of social ethics, including resource allocation, organ transplant, and human subjects research. For use in allied health fields. Media >, [PU: Prentice Hall]<