Reflective Bioethics – serie
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19 produkter
Do We Still Need Doctors?
Inbunden, 1997
2600 kr
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Written with poignancy and compassion, Do We Still NeedDoctors? is a personal account from the front lines of the moral and political battles that are reshaping America's health care system.
Stories and Their Limits
Narrative Approaches to Bioethics
Inbunden, 1997
3173 kr
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Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine; the fields have attracted much storytelling, ranging from great literature to humbler stories of sickness and personal histories. And all bioethicists work with cases--from court cases that shape policy matters to case …
Stories and Their Limits
Narrative Approaches to Bioethics
Häftad, 1997
833 kr
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Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine; the fields have attracted much storytelling, ranging from great literature to humbler stories of sickness and personal histories. And all bioethicists work with cases--from court cases that shape policy matters to case …
Meaning and Medicine
A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care
Inbunden, 1999
2600 kr
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A chief aim of this resource is to rekindle interest in seeing health care not solely as a set of practices so problematic as to require ethical analysis by philosophers and other scholars, but as a field whose scrutiny is richly rewarding for the traditional concerns of philosophy.
Meaning and Medicine
A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care
Häftad, 1999
791 kr
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A chief aim of this resource is to rekindle interest in seeing health care not solely as a set of practices so problematic as to require ethical analysis by philosophers and other scholars, but as a field whose scrutiny is richly rewarding for the traditional concerns of philosophy.
Philosophical Disease
Bioethics, Culture, and Identity
Av Carl Elliott
Inbunden, 1998
3082 kr
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Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, A Philosophical Disease brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical questions about the sense and significance of human life.Carl Elliott moves beyond the standard menu of …
Philosophical Disease
Bioethics, Culture, and Identity
Av Carl Elliott
Häftad, 1998
754 kr
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Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, A Philosophical Disease brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical questions about the sense and significance of human life.Carl Elliott moves beyond the standard menu of …
Fiction of Bioethics
Av Tod Chambers
Inbunden, 1999
3643 kr
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Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate fictional accounts.
Fiction of Bioethics
Av Tod Chambers
Häftad, 1999
951 kr
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Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate fictional accounts.
Physician Assisted Suicide
Expanding the Debate
Av Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
3082 kr
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Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning …
Physician Assisted Suicide
Expanding the Debate
Av Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
929 kr
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Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning …
Duty and Healing
Foundations of a Jewish Bioethic
Inbunden, 1999
3729 kr
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"Duty and Healing" positions ethical issues commonly encountered in clinical situations within Jewish law. The concept of duty is significant in exploring bioethical issues, and this book presents an authentic and non-parochial Jewish approach to bioethics, while it includes critiques of both …
Duty and Healing
Foundations of a Jewish Bioethic
Häftad, 1999
651 kr
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"Duty and Healing" positions ethical issues commonly encountered in clinical situations within Jewish law. The concept of duty is significant in exploring bioethical issues, and this book presents an authentic and non-parochial Jewish approach to bioethics, while it includes critiques of both …
Is There a Duty to Die?
And Other Essays in Bioethics
Av John Hardwig
Häftad, 2000
882 kr
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Amid the controversies surrounding physician-assisted suicides, euthanasia, and long-term care for the elderly, a major component in the ethics of medicine is notably absent: the rights and welfare of the survivor's family, for whom serious illness and death can be emotionally and financially …
Do We Still Need Doctors?
Häftad, 1999
716 kr
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Written with poignancy and compassion, Do We Still NeedDoctors? is a personal account from the front lines of the moral and political battles that are reshaping America's health care system.
Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research
Dangers For Social Policy
Inbunden, 2000
1530 kr
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In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, …
Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research
Dangers For Social Policy
Häftad, 2000
505 kr
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In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, …
Stories Matter
The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics
Av Rita Charon, Martha Montello
Häftad, 2002
746 kr
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First published in 2002. The doctor patient relationship starts with a story. Doctors' notes, a patient's chart, the recommendations of ethics committees and insurance justifications all hinge on written and verbal narrative interaction. The practice of narrative profoundly affects decision making, …
Patient in the Family
An Ethics of Medicine and Families
Av Hilde Lindemann Nelson, James Lindemann Nelson
Inbunden, 2016
2525 kr
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The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other. The authors explore how medicine, through its new reproductive technologies, is altering the structure of families, how families can participate more fully in medical decision-making, and …
