Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-0-7425-4523-6 • Hardback • August 2005 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
978-0-7425-4524-3 • Paperback • August 2005 • $47.00 • (£36.00)
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Albert R. Jonsen is professor emeritus of ethics in medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Washington.
Chapter 1 Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Decides? An Essay on Ethics and Bioethics
Chapter 2 Clinical Bioethics
Chapter 3 Defining Death
Chapter 4 Foregoing Life Support: The Quality of Life
Chapter 5 Autonomy of the Patient
Chapter 6 Euthanasia
Chapter 7 Organ Transplantation
Chapter 8 Assisted Reproduction
Chapter 9 Abortion
Chapter 10 Scientific Bioethics
Chapter 11 Research with Humans
Chapter 12 Genetics
Chapter 13 Neuroscience
Chapter 14 Cloning and Stem Cells Research
Chapter 15 The Wider World of Bioethics
Chapter 16 Bioethics and the Health Care System
Chapter 17 Cultural Bioethics
Chapter 18 Animal Ethics
Chapter 19 Environmental Ethics
Chapter 20 Conclusion
Chapter 21 Appendix A: Precis of Moral Philosophy
Chapter 22 Appendix B: Precis of History of Medical Ethics
Chapter 23 Appendix C: The Frankenstein Analogy
Chapter 24 Glossary
Chapter 25 Index
... engaging and readable ... True to his vision, Jonsen shows how we can use the techniques of reason and the insights and sympathies of practicing bioethicists to understand the persistent questions not just of bioethics but of our human predicament: Who lives? Who dies? Who decides????
— Larry Hultgren
The book is written in a clear and engaging style, and nicely blends a description of current issues with quite a bit of historical background?There is relatively little jargon or technical terminology; people who are looking for extensive discussions ofKant or deontology will not find it here. What the reader does get, happily, is the wisdom of one of the leading bioethicists, distilled into a very palatable form....
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This book succeeds as both a primer in bioethics and a prime to further exploration by the curious and concerned, an endeavor assisted by excellent topical lists of sources. Jonsen provides a thorough review of numerous issues in bioethics, focusing eachchapter on one or two headline cases but then exploring the specific topic broadly but in surprising depth. It provides a finely grained and clearly informative view of bioethics....
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