Source Book in Bioethics: A Documentary History - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0878406859 ISBN 13: 9780878406852

Casa editrice: Georgetown Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Brings together core bioethics legislative documents, court briefs, and reports by professional organizations, public bodies, and governments around the world. Documents are organized in sections on ethics of research with human subjects, ethics of death and dying, issues in human genetics, issues arising from human reproductive technologies and arrangements, and ethical issues in a changing health care system. Jonsen is a professor of ethics in medicine and chairman of the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Product Description

Government agencies and commissions, courts and legislatures during the last decades of the 20th century have both defined the fundamental issues in the field of bioethics and established ways of managing them in our society. Providing a history of these key bioethical decisions, this is a comprehensive collection of public documents in biomedical ethics, including many hard-to-find or out-of-print materials.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Georgetown Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0878406859
• ISBN 13: 9780878406852
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 640
• Redattore: Jonsen Albert R., Veatch Robert M., Walters Leroy
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile