Practical reasoning in bioethics /

"In his latest book, renowned ethicist James F. Childress uses various metaphors and analogies to highlight the role of imagination in practical reasoning. Childress shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies illuminate moral problems and issues in science, medicine, and health care. The is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Childress, James F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1997.
Colección:Medical ethics series.
Temas:
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Practical reason.
Ethics, Medical
Bioethics
Éthique médicale.
Raison pratique.
Bioéthique.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Medizinische Ethik
Bioethik
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In his latest book, renowned ethicist James F. Childress uses various metaphors and analogies to highlight the role of imagination in practical reasoning. Childress shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies illuminate moral problems and issues in science, medicine, and health care. The issues he considers include screening and testing for HIV infection, informed consent to and refusal of life-sustaining treatment, allocating scarce health care resources, providing access to and controlling the costs of health care, and obtaining organs and tissues for transplantation."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-375) and index.
ISBN:0585215294
9780585215297

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