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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807466203321

Autore

Jonsen Albert R

Titolo

The birth of bioethics / / Albert R. Jonsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

1-280-84374-8

9786610843749

0-19-975982-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Disciplina

174/.2/0973

Soggetti

Medical ethics - United States - History

Bioethics - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Bioethical Beginnings: The People and Places -- 1. Great Issues of Conscience: Medical Ethics Before Bioethics -- 2. The Theologians: Rediscovering the Tradition -- 3. The Philosophers: Clarifying the Concepts -- 4. Commissioning Bioethics: The Government in Bioethics, 1974-1983 -- Part II: Bioethical Beginnings: The Problems -- 5. Experiments Perilous: The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects -- 6. Splicing Life: Genetics and Ethics -- 7. The Miracle of Modern Medicine: The Ethics of Organ Transplantation and Artificial Organs -- 8. Who Should Live? Who Should Die? The Ethics of Death and Dying -- 9. O Brave New World! The Ethics of Human Reproduction -- Part III: Discipline, Discourse, and Ethos -- 10. Bioethics As a Discipline -- 11. Bioethics As a Discourse -- 12. Bioethics-American and Elsewhere -- Epilogue -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.