Bioethics: An Introduction to the History, Methods, and PracticeJones & Bartlett Learning, 1997 - 416 pages This book is one of the only texts to cover the history, methodology, and practice of bioethics. Compiling articles from well-established bioethical thinkers, Jecker et al. have created an edited volume unique in its scope of topics addressed. Bioethics will find use for both graduate students and professional students in law, medicine, nursing or other health-related fields who will face bioethical issues in future careers. |
Contents
Moral Questions and the New Biology | 12 |
Experimentation and Human Subjects | 29 |
To Save or Let | 60 |
Bioethics as a Discipline | 87 |
Introduction to the Methods of Bioethics | 113 |
Ethical Theories and Principles | 126 |
A Critique of Principlism | 147 |
Casuistry and Narrative Ethics | 158 |
Introduction to the Practice of Bioethics | 259 |
Clinical Bioethics | 273 |
Jehovahs Witnesses | 279 |
What Ethics Committees | 293 |
Quality Assurance | 300 |
Clinical Policy Development | 309 |
Advance Directives | 324 |
The State Level | 345 |
The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics | 175 |
Contextual Ethics | 184 |
Quantitative and Qualitative | 190 |
Survival after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Hospital | 202 |
Qualitative Methods | 218 |
Should Medical Encounters Be Studied Using | 232 |
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