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Bioethics : A Return to Fundamentals by K. Danner Clouser, Bernard Gert and Charles M. Culver (1997, Hardcover)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195114302

ISBN-139780195114300

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Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBioethics : a Return to Fundamentals

SubjectEthics, General

Publication Year1997

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMedical

AuthorK. Danner Clouser, Bernard Gert, Charles M. Culver

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight25 Oz

Item Length6.5 in

Item Width9.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-040853

Reviews"The book is careful, rigorous conceptual analysis and argument...[Authors] offer a deeper and more fully integrated treatment of the subject...The discussions of competency, consent, and paternalism are especially rewarding...The book is a significant contribution to the field of medicalethics and deserves a studious reading."--Doody's Journal ****, "A significan contribution to the field and deserves a studiousreading."--Chris Hackler, PhD, Annals of Internal Medicine, "A significant contribution to the field....deserves a studious reading."--Chris Hackler, PhD, Annals of Internal Medicine, "The book is careful, rigorous conceptual analysis andargument...[Authors] offer a deeper and more fully integrated treatment of thesubject...The discussions of competency, consent, and paternalism are especiallyrewarding...The book is a significant contribution to the field of medicalethics and deserves a studious reading."--Doody's Journal ****, "A significant contribution to the field....deserves a studiousreading."--Chris Hackler, PhD, Annals of Internal Medicine

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal174/.2

Table Of Content1. Introduction2. Morality3. Application4. Principlism5. Malady6. Competence7. Consent8. Confidentiality9. Paternalism10. Justification11. Death12. Euthanasia

SynopsisAn updated and expanded successor to Culver and Gert's Philosophy in Medicine , this book integrates moral philosophy with clinical medicine to present a comprehensive summary of the theory, concepts, and lines of reasoning underlying the field of bioethics. Rather than concentrating narrowly on bioethics and investigating moral philosophy only marginally, the authors provide an explicit account of common morality and show how it applies to and is modified by the realities of clinical medicine. Such broader knowledge finds its specific practical application when one attempts to resolve the more complex and difficult cases. This book does not attempt to settle all controversial matters, but rather provides an ethical framework that various parties to the dispute can accept and use as a basis for reaching agreement. Thus, the authors' main goal is to facilitate ethical discussion. Their detailed analyses of death and disease maintain the theoretical objectivity of these concepts while recognizing their central role in social and medical practices. They also provide in-depth discussions of the central concepts and issues in bioethics: competence, consent, justification for moral rule violations, and confidentiality. Paternalism, one of the most pervasive problems in clinical medicine, is accorded special attention. All these concepts have been integrated and systematically grounded within common morality. The book is richly illustrated with discussions of clinical cases. The authors explicitly compare their position with other accounts of bioethics such as principlism, casuistry, and virtue theory. Their discussion of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide clarifies and evaluates the recent legal decisions on these topics. The arguments throughout the volume stand out with characteristic clarity and cogency. A fresh and all-encompassing approach to bioethics that does not shy away from controversy, Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals will interest not only students in philosophy of medicine and medical ethics courses, but also moral philosophers and bioethicists, as well as doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals., An updated and expanded successor to Culver and Gert's Philosophy in Medicine, this book integrates moral philosophy with clinical medicine to present a comprehensive summary of the theory, concepts, and lines of reasoning underlying the field of bioethics. Rather than concentrating narrowly on bioethics and investigating moral philosophy only marginally, the authors provide an explicit account of common morality and show how it applies to and is modified by the realities of clinical medicine. Such broader knowledge finds its specific practical application when one attempts to resolve the more complex and difficult cases. This book does not attempt to settle all controversial matters, but rather provides an ethical framework that various parties to the dispute can accept and use as a basis for reaching agreement. Thus, the authors' main goal is to facilitate ethical discussion. Their detailed analyses of death and disease maintain the theoretical objectivity of these concepts while recognizing their central role in social and medical practices. They also provide in-depth discussions of the central concepts and issues in bioethics: competence, consent, justification for moral rule violations, and confidentiality. Paternalism, one of the most pervasive problems in clinical medicine, is accorded special attention. All these concepts have been integrated and systematically grounded within common morality. The book is richly illustrated with discussions of clinical cases. The authors explicitly compare their position with other accounts of bioethics such as principlism, casuistry, and virtue theory. Their discussion of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide clarifies and evaluates the recent legal decisions on these topics. The arguments throughout the volume stand out with characteristic clarity and cogency. A fresh and all-encompassing approach to bioethics that does not shy away from controversy, Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals will interest not only students in philosophy of medicine and medical ethics courses, but also moral philosophers and bioethicists, as well as doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals., This is a fundamental account of medical ethics grounded in an explicit discussion of common morality. It provides detailed analyses of the central concepts of bioethics - competence, consent and confidentiality - as well as pressing issues like euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

LC Classification NumberR724.G46 1997