Medical Ethics Books

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21. Autonomy, Consent and the Law

    By Sheila A.M. McLean

    Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

    Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their...

    Published August 16th 2009 by Routledge
22. Bioethics and the Humanities

    Attitudes and Perceptions

    By Robin Downie, Jane Macnaughton

    Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

    Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation. Illustrating some humanistic ways of understanding patients, this volume explores the connections...

    Published January 24th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
23. Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences

    By Mike J. McNamee, Stephen Olivier, Paul Wainwright

    Series: Ethics and Sport

    Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences puts ethics at the centre of research in these rapidly expanding fields of knowledge. Placing the issues in historical context, and using informative case studies, the authors examine how moral theory can guide research design, education, and...

    Published October 16th 2006 by Routledge
24. Thomistic Principles and Bioethics

    By Jason T. Eberl

    Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

    Alongside a revival of interest in Thomism in philosophy, scholars have realised its relevance when addressing certain contemporary issues in bioethics. This book offers a rigorous interpretation of Aquinas's metaphysics and ethical thought, and highlights its significance to questions in bioethics...

    Published July 13th 2006 by Routledge
25. On Cloning

    By John Harris

    Series: Thinking in Action

    Cloning - few words have as much potential to grip our imagination or grab the headlines. No longer the stuff of science fiction or Star Wars - it is happening now. Yet human cloning is currently banned throughout the world, and therapeutic cloning banned in many countries. In this highly...

    Published June 15th 2004 by Routledge
26. Bodies for Sale

    Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade

    By Stephen Wilkinson

    Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade explores the philosophical and practical issues raised by activities such as surrogacy and organ trafficking. Stephen Wilkinson asks what is it that makes some commercial uses of the body controversial, whether the arguments against...

    Published March 26th 2003 by Routledge
27. Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics

    By Mark J. Cherry, John F. Peppin

    Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

    Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments....

    Published December 31st 2002 by Taylor & Francis
28. Truth, Trust and Medicine

    By Jennifer Jackson

    Truth, Trust and Medicine investigates trust and honesty in medicine. It looks at the doctor-patient relationship, raising questions which disturb notions of patients' autonomy and self-determination, such as withholding information and consent and covert surveillance in care units. It will be of...

    Published November 8th 2000 by Routledge
29. Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics

    A Short Introduction

    By Helen Watt

    In a world of rapid technological advances, the moral issues raised by life and death choices in healthcare remain obscure. Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics provides a concise, thoughtful and extremely accessible guide to these moral issues.Helen Watt examines, using real-life cases, the range...

    Published April 19th 2000 by Routledge
30. Coercive Care

    Ethics of Choice in Health & Medicine

    By Torbjorn Tannsjo

    Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries....

    Published June 9th 1999 by Routledge