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245 0 2 _aA companion to bioethics /
_cedited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.
260 _aOxford, UK ;
_aMalden, Mass., USA :
_bBlackwell Publishers,
_c1998.
300 _axv, 512 p. ;
_c25 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
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337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
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338 _2rdacarrier
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aWhat 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
650 0 _aBioethics.
650 0 _aMedical ethics.
700 1 _aKuhse, Helga.
700 1 _aSinger, Peter,
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