The Basics of Bioethics

by Veatch, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9780205765621
• ISBN10: 0205765629
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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Author Biography

Robert M. Veatch, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Ethics and former director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, where he is also professor of philosophy and adjunct professor in the medical school. He has taught medical ethics at Georgetown, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Union College, and St. George's University School of Medicine. He was formerly Associate for Medical Ethics at the Hastings Center and is a registered pharmacist.

Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Chapter 1: A Map of the Terrain of Ethics

Chapter 2: The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History

Chapter 3: Defining Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare: The Basis of Moral Standing

Chapter 4: Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient

Chapter 5: The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical

Chapter 6: The Principle of Avoiding of Killing

Chapter 7: Death and Dying: The Incompetent Patient

Chapter 8: Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocation of Resources, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research

Chapter 9: Human Control of Life: Genetics, Birth Technologies and Modifying Human Nature

Chapter 10: Resolving Conflicts Among Principles

Chapter 11: The Virtues in Bioethics

 

Appendices:

Hippocratic Oath

Principles of Medical Ethics (2001))of the American Medical Association

Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005)