03134cam a22003614a 4500 4965214 PUCPR 20250123125627.0 971128s1998 enk b 001 0 eng 97050242 0631197370 (alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC pcc BET R 724 .C616 1998 174/.2 21 A companion to bioethics / edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell Publishers, 1998. xv, 512 p. ; 25 cm. rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Includes bibliographical references and index. What is bioethics? A historical introduction -- Questions about bioethics -- Ethical theory and bioethics -- Bioethics and cultural diversity -- Gender and bioethics -- Religion and bioethics -- Law and bioethics -- Ethical Approaches -- A principle-based approach -- An absolute rule approach -- A utilitarian approach -- A care approach -- A case approach -- Before birth: issue involving embryos and fetuses --Personhood -- Abortion --Mother-fetus conflict -- Issues in reproduction -- Population issues -- Assisted reproduction -- Prenatal screening, sex selection and cloning -- The new genetics -- Gene therapy -- Mapping the human genome -- Creating and patenting new life forms -- Genetic screening and counselling -- Life and death issues -- Medical decisions at the end of life -- Severely disabled newborns -- Brain death, cortical death and persistent vegetative state -- Advance directives -- Voluntary euthanasia, suicide and physician-assisted suicide -- The slippery slope argument -- Resource allocation -- Micro-allocation: dividing up the health care budget -- Is there a right to health care and, if so, what does it encompass? -- Organ donations -- Organ transplantation -- Aids: individual and 'public' interests -- Aids: ethical issues in the developing world -- Experimentation with human subjects -- Experimentation on human beings -- Ethical issues in human experimentation -- Experimentation on human embryos and fetuses --Experimentation with animals -- History and ethical regulation of animal experimentation: an international perspective -- The moral status of animals and their use as experimental subjects -- Ethical issues in the practice of health care -- Confidentiality -- Truth-telling -- Informed consent and patient autonomy -- Patients doubtfully capable of consent -- Special issues facing nurses -- The teaching and practice of bioethics -- Ethics committees and ethics consultants -- How bioethics is being taught: a critical review Bioethics. Medical ethics. Kuhse, Helga. Singer, Peter, 1946- 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg 31 lcc 303481 303481 0 0 lcc 0 0 15 15 65 2025-01-23 Donación P. Jorge J Ferrer Negrón, SJ 0.00 0 R 724 .C616 1998 4200000001779 2025-01-23 00:00:00 Ej. 0.00 2025-01-23 31