The Nature and Prospect of Bioethics Interdisciplinary Perspectives

As a field of study only thirty-five years old, bioethics has often lacked recognizable definition about what it is, what it does, what its value may be, and how one prepares to engage the discipline. In The Nature and Prospect of Bioethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, prominent bioethicists, wh...

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Other Authors: Miller, Franklin G. (Editor), Fletcher, John C. (Editor), Humber, James M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ Humana 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Owl and the Caduceus: Does Bioethics Need Philosophy?
  • 2 Religion, Theology, and Bioethics
  • 3 Medicine and Bioethics
  • 4 When Policy Analysis Is Carried Out in Public: Some Lessons for Bioethics from NBAC’s Experience
  • 5 Finding the Good Behind the Right: A Dialogue Between Nursing and Bioethics
  • 6 Medical Ethics: Literature, Literary Studies, and the Question of Interdisciplinarity
  • 7 History and Bioethics