The foundations of bioethics / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-2018

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

xviii, 446 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary:

This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195057368

OCLC:

31646988