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Medical ethics : a very short introduction /

by Hope, R. A.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Very short introductions: 114.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004Description: 152 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0192802828 (pbk.); 9780192802828 (pbk.).Subject(s): Medical ethics | Ethics, Medical -- Case Reports | Bioethical Issues -- Case Reports | Medische ethiek | Éthique médicale
Contents:
On why medical ethics is exciting -- Euthanasia: good medical practice, or murder? -- Why undervaluing 'statistical' people costs lives -- People who don't exist, at least not yet -- A tool-box for reasoning -- Inconsistencies about madness -- How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality -- Is medical research the new imperialism? -- Family medicine meets the House of Lords.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-144) and index.

On why medical ethics is exciting -- Euthanasia: good medical practice, or murder? -- Why undervaluing 'statistical' people costs lives -- People who don't exist, at least not yet -- A tool-box for reasoning -- Inconsistencies about madness -- How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality -- Is medical research the new imperialism? -- Family medicine meets the House of Lords.

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