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WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

Bioethics

What Everyone Needs to KnowR

Steinbock, Bonnie (Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy, Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy, University at Albany) & Menzel, Paul T. (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Pacific Lutheran University)

Bioethics

WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

Bioethics

What Everyone Needs to KnowR

WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW: Bioethics

 

The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know ® discusses the most difficult and controversial bioethical issues facing the public today, providing a way to think about them in a rigorous and thoughtful way.


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Beschrijving WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW: Bioethics

The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any? Should women be paid to donate eggs? Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know ® discusses these and other similar questions facing the public today--as well as providing a way for thinking deeply about them.

Steinbock and Menzel first examine major moral theories and how they can be used to analyze bioethical issues. They then provide historical background to the birth of bioethics and explain how it shifted from a paternalistic doctor knows best approach to respect for autonomy, a fundamental value in contemporary bioethics. Subsequent chapters cover advance directives, experimentation on human subjects, the definition of death, physician-assisted dying, abortion, disability, just healthcare systems, the allocation of scarce resources, pharmaceutical drug pricing, assisted reproductive technology, egg donation, surrogate motherhood, sex selection, and the genetic modification of humans. Race and gender are considered throughout, as are the ethical issues raised by pandemics. Steinbock and Menzel consider the controversial questions that surface in the public sphere, explaining the facts, and then evaluating different approaches to resolving them.


ISBN
9780197657997
Pagina's
328
Verschenen
Serie
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
NUR
730
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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