Is there an ethicist in the house?:on the cutting edge of bioethics
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Published: |
Indiana University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Bloomington |
Publication Dates: | c2005. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Bioethics and the humanities |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 274 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0253346355 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253346353 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | R |
CLC: | R-052 |
Call Number: | R-052/M843 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Is there an ethicist in the house? -- Call me doctor? Confessions of a hospital philosopher -- Arguing euthanasia -- Bioethics is a naturalism -- Ethics consultation as moral engagement -- Ethics by committee: the moral authority of consensus -- Goodbye to all that: the end of moderate protectionism in human subjects research -- Convenient and captive populations -- Regulation of research in the decisionally impaired -- "The only feasible means": the Pentagon's ambivalent relationship with the Nuremberg code -- Reassessing the influence of the Nuremberg code on American medical ethics -- Cancer, truth, and genetics -- Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society -- Bioethics after the terror -- Another impossible profession. |