Medical ethics : a very short introduction / Tony Hope.

  • Hope, R. A.
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[2004], ©2004
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2004], ©2004.

Physical description

xiii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-144) and index.

Contents

On why medical ethics is exciting -- Euthanasia: good medical practice, or murder? -- Why undervaluing 'statistical' people costs lives -- People who don't exist, at least not yet -- A tool-box for reasoning -- Inconsistencies about madness -- How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality -- Is medical research the new imperialism? -- Family medicine meets the House of Lords.

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    Medical Collection
    W50 2004H79m
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  • 0192802828