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Life Choices: A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)
 
 
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Life Choices: A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics) [Paperback]

Joseph H. Howell (Author), William F. Sale (Editor)


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0878405771 978-0878405770 May 1995

An authoritative introduction to bioethics, Life Choices examines a comprehensive range of ethical questions and brings together some of the most probing and instructive essays published in the field.

Some of the articles are classics in the literature of bioethics, while others address current issues. Topics include moral decision making, abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, life-sustaining technologies, organ transplantation, reproductive technologies, and the allocation of health care resources.

This second edition features new sections on the goals and allocation of medicine and on the cloning of human beings. It also includes new articles on genetics, the duty to die, and ethical theory.

Written by the foremost authorities in bioethics, Life Choices provides a comprehensive introduction to the field. Instructors who have used the first edition as a text will welcome this new, updated edition. Scholars and health care practitioners will find it useful as a valuable reference on a wide range of bioethical issues.

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"The articles... represent some of the most important positions taken on the topics under consideration." -- Health Progress



"Highly recommended not only to those involved in teaching bioethics but also to a general audience, including practicing physicians." -- Canadian Medical Association Journal



"An excellent text and resource...These essays represent some of the finest work by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field." -- Doody's Review Service



"An impressive collection of bioethical scholarship by a group of deservedly respected scholars." -- Religious Studies Review

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"The volume deserves high praise... [It] provides a helpful collection of representative articles by leading bioethicists on a range of important topics. It belongs on the shelves of scholars, health care professionals, policy makers, and interested laypersons. Moreover, its inclusion of discussion questions after each essay will make it especially useful as an undergraduate text." -- Academic Medicine, reviewing a previous edition or volume

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr (May 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0878405771
  • ISBN-13: 978-0878405770
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,759,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Bioethics" refers to the application of moral reasoning to issues raised by medical treatments, technologies, and the life sciences. Read the first page
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embryo diagnosis, conferred claims approach, res communes omnium, traditional respect for biological ties, reasonable pricing clause, strong presumed consent, designated organ donation, weak presumed consent, medical indications policy, futility exception, normal prenatal care, unused frozen embryos, embryo therapy, bad axioms, potentiality principle, new reproductive practices, permitting euthanasia, biologic offspring, stopping life support, individualistic fantasy, nonmedical interests, reproductive exchanges, altruistic surrogacy, reproductive gifts, dispositional authority
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New York, United States, Hastings Center Report, Supreme Court, Daniel Callahan, Oxford University Press, President's Commission, Norman Daniels, New Jersey, John Hardwig, Bayh-Dole Act, American Fertility Society, French Anderson, Government Printing Office, Harvard University Press, Human Genome Project, James Rachels, Joel Feinberg, Oregon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Setting New Priorities, Free Press, New England Journal of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, Executive Summary, Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment
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