Research Catalog

Title

Bioethics : a systematic approach / Bernard Gert, Charles M. Culver, K. Danner Clouser.

Author

Gert, Bernard, 1934-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Culver, Charles M.
• Clouser, K. Danner.

Description

ix, 359 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book is the result of over 30 years of collaboration among its authors. It uses the systematic account of our common morality developed by one of its authors to provide a useful foundation for dealing with the moral problems and disputes that occur in the practice of medicine. The analyses of impartiality, rationality, and of morality as a public system not only explain why some bioethical questions, such as the moral acceptability of abortion, cannot be resolved, but also provide a method for determining the correct answer for those occasions when a bioethical question has a unique correct answer. This new edition includes an entire chapter that has been added to address the controversial issue of abortion within the authors' distinct framework."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-353) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Morality -- 3. Moral disagreement -- 4. Particular moral rules and special duties -- 5. Principlism -- 6. Malady -- 7. Mental maladies -- 8. What doctors must know about medical practice -- 9. Adequate information, competence, and coercion -- 10. Paternalism and its justification -- 11. Death -- 12. Euthanasia.

ISBN

0195159063

LCCN

• 2005050871
• 9780195159066

OCLC

• ocm60669165
• SCSB-5231916

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries