Moral matters : ethical issues in medicine and the life sciences / Arthur Caplan.

Author
Caplan, Arthur L. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Wiley, ©1995.
Description
xii, 198 pages ; 23 cm

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    Summary note
    Discussion of key medical ethical issues of this decade: abortion(medical and surgical) test tube babies, waste of resources, euthanasia, AIDS, violence, homosexuality, gene scares, nicotine and other drugs, diets, lying and fraud research among others.
    Contents
    • Abortion, contraception, sexuality and the family
    • Infertility and technological reproduction
    • Relationships between health care providers and those in their care
    • The right to refuse medical treatment
    • Defining death, euthanasia and the right to die
    • AIDS, epidemics, public health and population
    • Genetics
    • Rationing and the distribution of scarce medical resources
    • The ethics of experimentation
    • Virtue and vice in biomedical science.
    ISBN
    • 0471105619 ((paperback))
    • 9780471105619 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    94236999
    OCLC
    31934396
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