Biomedical Ethics

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Thomas A. Mappes, David DeGrazia
McGraw-Hill Companies,Incorporated, 2006 - Medical - 723 pages
This best-selling anthology of readings with case studies provides insightful and comprehensive treatment of ethical issues in medicine. Appropriate for courses taught in philosophy departments as well as in schools of medicine and nursing, the collection covers provocative topics such as conflicts of interest in medicine, advance directives, physician-assisted suicide, and the rationing of health care. The text's effective pedagogical features include chapter introductions, argument sketches, explanations of medical terms, headnotes, and annotated bibliographies.

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Contents

THE PHYSICIANPATIENT RELATIONSHIP
59
Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs American Medical Association
71
Terrence F Ackerman Why Doctors Should Intervene
85
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

David DeGrazia earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.St. from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Gerogetown University, each in philosophy. He has been teaching philosophy and biomedical ethics at George Washington University since 1989. He is the author of Taking Animals Seriously (Cambridge University Press) and of articles published in such journals as Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Public Affairs Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Southern Journal of Philosophy.

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