The Basics of Bioethics - Hardcover

Veatch, Robert M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113842501X ISBN 13: 9781138425019

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a balanced and systematic ethical framework to help students analyze a wide range of controversial topics in medicine, and consider ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions. The Basics of Bioethics covers the Principalist approach and identifies principles that are believed to make behavior morally right or wrong. It showcases alternative ethical approaches to health care decision making by presenting Hippocratic ethics as only one among many alternative ethical approaches to health care decision-making. The Basics of Bioethics offers case studies, diagrams, and other learning aids for an accessible presentation. Plus, it contains an all-encompassing ethics chart that shows the major questions in ethics and all of the major answers to these questions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 113842501X
• ISBN 13: 9781138425019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 224