Bioethics in the clinic : hippocratic reflections

Bioethics in the clinic hippocratic reflections

The case of the empty head: cultures, values, and bioethics -- Hippocrates's children -- What is medical truth? -- Getting over informed consent -- Listening to the silences -- Surgeons, patients, and unnecessary holes in the head -- When good doctors do bad things -- Is AIDS the postmodern ill...

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1. Verfasser: Gillett, Grant (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore u.a. Johns Hopkins University Press 2004
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Ethics, Clinical > Bioethical Issues > Philosophy, Medical > Medical ethics > Clinical medicine > Moral and ethical aspects > Bioethics > Medicine > Philosophy > Medizinische Ethik > Bioethik
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Zusammenfassung:The case of the empty head: cultures, values, and bioethics -- Hippocrates's children -- What is medical truth? -- Getting over informed consent -- Listening to the silences -- Surgeons, patients, and unnecessary holes in the head -- When good doctors do bad things -- Is AIDS the postmodern illness? -- Healthy bodies, the medical panoptikon, and alternative medicine -- The endings of life -- Ethics in limbo -- Euthanasia, the pause, and the last rights -- Ethics, embryos, and stem cell research -- Save the life of my child -- Joanna May revisited: the cloning debate
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 309 S.
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ISBN:0801878438
0-8018-7843-8