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A Balanced and Systematic Ethical Framework The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a balanced and systematic ethical framework to help students analyze a wide range of controversial topics in medicine, and consider ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions. Teaching and Learning Experience Personalize Learning - MySearchLabdelivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging expe...

Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making. Before then medical ethics had beenisolated for almost two centuries from the larger philosophical, social, and religious controversies of the time. There was, however, an earlier period where le...

The first complete and systematic account of the ethical and policy controversies surrounding organ transplants.

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Where should physicians get their ethics? While the Hippocratic Oath continues to be cited by a wide array of professional associations, scholars, and medical students, the author contends that the pledge is such an offensive code of ethics that it should be summarily excised from the profession.

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Three decades after the first heart transplant surgery stunned the world, organs are transplanted every day. Now, a medical ethicist, who has been involved in the debate for many years, offers a complete and systematic account of the ethical and policy controversies surrounding organ transplants. "Without question, the best and most important book on this topic". -- James F. Childress, University of Virginia.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This boo is suitable for professionals in medicine, law, insurance and more.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This book is suitable for professionals in medicine, law, insurance and more.

Throughout the past two decades, when medical ethics has had arenaissance, Robert Veatch has been a leading contributor to its dialogue andadvance. This collection of his work shows the breadth and the cogency of histhinking.... it is a book worth having." -- Journal of the American MedicalAssociation..". a fascinating dissection of almost everyaspect of the doctor-patient relationship.... strongly recommended reading for allhealth care worker...

A collection of readings on topics such as abortion, organ transplantation, and HIV. Valuable for practitioners, and students of medical ethics.