This book provides a collection of original essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics research. Leading philosophers give in-depth accounts of issues as diverse as embryo pre-selection, the role of autonomy in organ transplant markets, conscientious objection in the health care professions and neonatal euthanasia. Provocative and original, the contributions to this volume will be of interest to academic, students and health care professionals alike.
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CONTRIBUTORS: N. Athanassoulis
EAN: 9780230247048
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 288 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-09-08
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GENRE: MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Medical ethics and professional conduct, Ethics and moral philosophy
'...essential reading for anyone interested in the vast range of complex ethical, social and legal issues at the center of contemporary medical ethics.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
PIERS BENN Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, Imperial College, UKKATRIEN DEVOLDER is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and is based at the Bioethics Institute Ghent at Ghent University, BelgiumHEATHER DRAPER is Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences University of Birmingham, UKRAY FREY Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green University, USAJOHN HARRIS Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, UKHALLVARD LILLEHAMMER Fellow of King's College, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University, UKDAVID S. ODERBERG Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UKJAMES STACEY TAYLOR Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey USASTEPHEN WILKINSON Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy, Keele University, UK
