Nafsika Athanassoulis

Gebundenes Buch

Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics

Beschreibung

This book provides a collection of original essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics research. Leading philosophers give in-depth accounts of issues as diverse as embryo pre-selection, the role of autonomy in organ transplant markets, conscientious objection in the health care professions and neonatal euthanasia. Provocative and original, the contributions to this volume will be of interest to academic, students and health care professionals alike.

Autor

PIERS BENN Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, Imperial College, UK KATRIEN DEVOLDER is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and is based at the Bioethics Institute Ghent at Ghent University, Belgium HEATHER DRAPER is Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences University of Birmingham, UK RAY FREY Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green University, USA JOHN HARRIS Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK HALLVARD LILLEHAMMER Fellow of King's College, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University, UK DAVID S. ODERBERG Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UK JAMES STACEY TAYLOR Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey USA STEPHEN WILKINSON Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy, Keele University, UK

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-4527-3
• 2005
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781403945273
• ISBN-10: 1403945276
• Artikelnr.: 21055437

Rezensionen

'...essential reading for anyone interested in the vast range of complex ethical, social and legal issues at the center of contemporary medical ethics.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews