Is there an ethicist in the house? : on the cutting edge of bioethics / Jonathan D. Moreno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreno, Jonathan D.

Series:

Bioethics and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Bioethical Issues.

Medical Subjects:

Bioethical Issues.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Takes up some of the most important topics in clinical ethics today, including the ethics of human experimentation and an examination of emerging values concerning the neurosciences and bioterrorism.

Contents:

Is there an ethicist in the house?

Call me doctor? Confessions of a hospital philosopher

Arguing euthanasia

Bioethics is a naturalism

Ethics consultation as moral engagement

Ethics by committee: the moral authority of consensus

Goodbye to all that: the end of moderate protectionism in human subjects research

Convenient and captive populations

Regulation of research in the decisionally impaired

"The only feasible means": the Pentagon's ambivalent relationship with the Nuremberg code

Reassessing the influence of the Nuremberg code on American medical ethics

Cancer, truth, and genetics

Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society

Bioethics after the terror

Another impossible profession.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253346355

OCLC:

57514678