The roots of bioethics : health, progress, technology, death /

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Main Authors: Callahan, Daniel, 1930-
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=ae50ca562d6844d79ac81046b99201a2
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780199931385
9780199931378
Index Number: QH332
CLC: B82-059
Contents: The Hastings Center and the early years of bioethics -- A memoir of an interdisciplinary career -- Minimalist ethics -- Individual good and common good -- The WHO definition of health -- End-of-life care : a management or philosophical problem? -- Death, mourning, and medical progress -- Terminating life-sustaining treatment for the demented -- Killing and allowing to die : why it is a mistake to derive an 'is' from an 'ought' -- Rationing : theory, passion, and politics -- Consumer-directed health care : promise or puffery? -- Social allocation of resources for patients with ESDR -- Shaping biomedical research : the case of NIH -- Time for a change : planning our medical future -- Too much of a good thing : how splendid technologies can go wrong -- Demythologizing the stem cell juggernaut -- Health technology assessment implementation : the politics of ethics -- Bioethics and fatherhood.