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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100190903260

ISBN-139780190903268

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038259151

Product Key Features

Number of Pages832 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBioethics : Principles, Issues, and Cases

Publication Year2019

SubjectEthics, Ethics & Moral Philosophy

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Medical

AuthorLewis Vaughn

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight45.9 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width9.1 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number4

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2019-015775

Dewey Edition23

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Dewey Decimal174.2

SynopsisBioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, Fourth Edition, explores the philosophical, medical, social, and legal aspects of key bioethical issues. Opening with a thorough introduction to ethics, bioethics, and moral reasoning, it then covers influential moral theories and the criteria for evaluating them. Integrating eighty-seven readings--ten of them new to this edition--substantive introductions to each issue, numerous classic bioethical cases, andabundant pedagogical tools, this text addresses the most provocative and controversial topics in bioethics., Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, Fourth Edition, explores the philosophical, medical, social, and legal aspects of key bioethical issues. Opening with a thorough introduction to ethics, bioethics, and moral reasoning, it then covers influential moral theories and the criteria for evaluating them. Integrating eighty-seven readings--ten of them new to this edition--substantive introductions to each issue, numerous classic bioethical cases, and abundant pedagogical tools, this text addresses the most provocative and controversial topics in bioethics, The #1 bioethics book on the market, combining a wide variety of current readings and classic and contemporary cases with extensive explanations and more robust pedagogy than any other text, New to this Edition, Expanded discussions and clarifications of feminist ethics, abortion and Judaism, euthanasia, advance directives, informed consent, the issue of race in research, gene therapy, principlism, prima facie principles, and healthcare in various countries, Updated statistics and public opinion surveys, along with coverage of new developments in several fields-including recent breakthroughs in gene therapy; important informed consent cases; abortion; major developments in euthanasia and assisted suicide; the Affordable Care Act; and comparisons of healthcare in various countries-allow students to explore key issues in light of the most recent data, Ten new readings provide new perspectives on issues discussed in the text, A new section on the moral theory known as principlism (W. D. Ross's perspective) in Chapter 2 explains how people make moral decisions Book jacket., Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, Fourth Edition, explores the philosophical, medical, social, and legal aspects of key bioethical issues. Opening with a thorough introduction to ethics, bioethics, and moral reasoning, it then covers influential moral theories and the criteria for evaluating them. Integrating eighty-seven readings--ten of them new to this edition--substantive introductions to each issue, numerous classic bioethical cases, and abundant pedagogical tools, this text addresses the most provocative and controversial topics in bioethics.

LC Classification NumberR724.V38 2020