| Description |
xi, 309 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index. |
| Contents |
The case of the empty head: cultures, values, and bioethics -- Hippocrates's children -- What is medical truth? -- Getting over informed consent -- Listening to the silences -- Surgeons, patients, and unnecessary holes in the head -- When good doctors do bad things -- Is AIDS the postmodern illness? -- Healthy bodies, the medical panoptikon, and alternative medicine -- The endings of life -- Ethics in limbo -- Euthanasia, the pause, and the last rights -- Ethics, embryos, and stem cell research -- Save the life of my child -- Joanna May revisited: the cloning debate. |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Clinical medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Clinical medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Clinical medicine. |
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Bioethics.
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Bioethics. |
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Medicine -- Philosophy. |
| ISBN |
0801878438 hardback alkaline paper |
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