Foundations of Bioethics : An Introduction and Critique by H. Tristram Engelhardt (1986, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195036085
ISBN-139780195036084
eBay Product ID (ePID)1351742
Product Key Features
Number of Pages414 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFoundations of Bioethics : an Introduction and Critique
SubjectEthics, Linguistics / General
Publication Year1986
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Medical
AuthorH. Tristram Engelhardt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight26.2 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN84-029572
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal174/.2
SynopsisThe first single-author text on the philosophical issues in bioethics, this book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the philosophical principles underlying this discipline. It examines the ways in which facts, theories, and values are intertwined in concepts of disease and health, and covers a wide range of issues, including abortion, in vitrofertilization, sexual deviance, and organ transplantation. The discussion of these issues is critical and often controversial, and the distinguished author includes his own provocative views on topics of current debate. Highly readable and challenging, this is an excellent text for advanced bioethics courses, as well as a thought-provoking study of considerable interest for physicians and philosophers., This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantiallyexpanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. Thevery possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored., This is the first single-author text on the philosophical issues in bioethics that is both systematic and comprehensive. Engelhardt provides both a critique of the theoretical foundations of bioethics and an analysis of the problematic ways in which facts, theories and values become intertwined in concepts of health and disease. He analyzes patients' rights, including the right to free and informed consent, to refuse treatment, and to the benefits of health care. Covering topics that range from abortion and in vitro fertilization to sexual deviance and organ transplantation. Englehardt offers a critical and at times controversial analysis, defending such practices as fetal experimentation and limited infanticide.
LC Classification NumberR724.E54 1986
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