Bioethics. / Francisco Javier Elizari Basterra ; edited by Roger Ruston ; translated by Michael Cunningham and Caroline M. White.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Theology and life series: v. 39.Publisher: Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, c1994Description: 352 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0814655033 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Medical ethics | Ethics, Medical | Philosophy, MedicalItem type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Translation of: Bioética.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Moral thinking on bioethics -- Principles and general moral criteria -- Medical codes of ethics -- The Techniques of assisted reproduction -- Population and birth control -- Genetic counseling -- Antenatal diagnosis -- Eugenics -- Abortion -- Use and donation of embryos and fetuses -- Handicapped newborns -- Genetics engineering -- Mapping and sequencing of the human genome -- Death -- Hunger strikes -- The Elderly and the chronically sick -- Patient's rights -- The truth -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Informed consent -- The Right to turn down treatment -- Professional responsibility -- Strikes in the health sector -- Ethics committees -- Health and disease -- Transplants -- AIDS -- Drugs -- Medical interventions in mental illness and behavioral problems -- Research using human beings -- Interventions on animals.
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