Bioethics
What Everyone Needs to Know ®
$40.22
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2023
Summary
The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any? Should women be paid to donate eggs? Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know discusses these and other similar questions facing the public today—as well as providing a way for thinking deeply about them.
Steinbock and Menzel first examine…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197657966 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0197657966 |
| Author: | Bonnie Steinbock, Paul T. Menzel |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 22mm |
| Series: | WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW |
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Critics Review
The book’s coverage is excellent and more than sufficient to ground a robust understanding of contemporary bioethics. * Choice *Its main strength is the clarity with which its authors lay out the facts behind the issues, as well as the various positions on those issues … facts and issues are discussed with clarity and illuminated by wellâpresented cases. * Jennifer Flynn, Bioethics *
About The Author
Bonnie Steinbock
Paul T. Menzel is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University. He is the author of Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care, and co-editor of Prevention vs. Treatment: What’s the Right Balance? and Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death.
Bonnie Steinbock is Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy at the University at Albany. She is the author of Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses, the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Bioethics, and the co-editor of Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics.
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