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Bioethics in the clinic : Hippocratic reflections /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gillett, Grant, 1950-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Medical ethics. Clinical medicine > Moral and ethical aspects. Bioethics. Medicine > Philosophy. Ethics, Clinical. Bioethical Issues. Philosophy, Medical.

Table of Contents:

The case of the empty head: cultures, values, and bioethics
Hippocrates' 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 panopticon, 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.