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The roots of bioethics : health, progress, technology, death /

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Daniel Callahan's life time work in bioethics has again and again returned to the root problems of health, progress technology, and death. How we think about each of them individually and in relation to each other will shape the way we approach and deal with the most common dilemmas of modern m...

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Main Author: Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Bioethics.
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics > history
Euthanasia > ethics
Right to Die > ethics
Bioethics
Bioéthique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Biology.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Biology - General.
Electronic books.
Collected Work
E-books.
E-reference.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Hastings Center and the early years of bioethics
  • A memoir of an interdisciplinary career
  • Minimalist ethics
  • Individual good and common good
  • The WHO definition of health
  • End-of-life care : a management or philosophical problem?
  • Death, mourning, and medical progress
  • Terminating life-sustaining treatment for the demented
  • Killing and allowing to die : why it is a mistake to derive an 'is' from an 'ought'
  • Rationing : theory, passion, and politics
  • Consumer-directed health care : promise or puffery?
  • Social allocation of resources for patients with ESDR
  • Shaping biomedical research : the case of NIH
  • Time for a change : planning our medical future
  • Too much of a good thing : how splendid technologies can go wrong
  • Demythologizing the stem cell juggernaut
  • Health technology assessment implementation : the politics of ethics
  • Bioethics and fatherhood.