Overview
- Provides a brief, clear introduction to the field of Bioethics
- Avoids the ideology and opinion that accompany the field, pointing them out where they are decisive
- Tracks the development of bioethics case by significant case, exposing readers to the classic cases in medical/nursing ethics
- Includes a special section on Ethics Committees
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
Keywords
- Bioethics in context
- Biomedical Research
- Birth, Life and Death
- Case Studies in Bioethics
- Cloning, Assisted Reproductive Technology
- Health Care System an a Capitalist Economy
- History of Applied Ethics
- Introduction to Bioethics
- Introduction to Biomedical Research
- Issues of Bioethics
- Medical Ethics
- Medical practice in U.S.
- Medicare And Medicaid Funds
- Moral Dilemmas of Biomedicine
- Natural Death
- Physician Assisted Death
- Stem Cell Research
- Theoretical Ethics
- Tracking Health
- Understandings of Death and Treatment
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The American Experience in Bioethics
Authors: Lisa Newton
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00363-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00362-7Published: 29 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00363-4Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-8101
Series E-ISSN: 2211-811X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 81
Topics: Ethics, Philosophy of Biology