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Taking sides : clashing views on controversial bio-ethical issues

Title
Taking sides : clashing views on controversial bio-ethical issues / edited, selected, and with introductions by Carol Levine.
Publication
Guilford, Conn. : Dushkin Pub. Group, ©1984.

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Additional Authors
Levine, Carol, 1934-
Description
xii, 300 pages
Summary
Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial bio-ethical issues is one in a series of volumes prepared to provide students with well developed, carefully considered and sharply opposed viewpoints on enduring issues. Within the pages of this volume important issues concerning reproduction, death, and technology are examined. The editor provides a background introduction and postscript summary to each issue. But and the pro and contra essays speak for themselves. Selected for liveliness and substance, they represent the arguments of leading scientists, commentators and medical practitioners. The complexity of our society today requires considered thought and sensitivity to the continuum of views on all important issues.
Subject
  • Medical ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Bioethics
  • Medical ethics
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Bioethik
  • Medizinische Ethik
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Is abortion immoral? -- Is it wrong to create test-tube babies? -- Should women be allowed to bear babies for a fee? -- Is it ethical to sterilize the retarded without consent? -- Part II: Decisions about death -- Should doctors withhold the truth from dying patients? -- Is killing the same as letting die? -- Should treatment be withheld from newborns with birth defects? -- Can suicide be rational? -- Part III: Treating the mentally ill -- tIs it a therapist's duty to warn potential victims of violence? -- Should the insanity defense be abolished? -- Can the "psychiatric will" prevent involuntary treatment? -- Part IV: Human and animal experimentation -- Can deception in research be justified? -- Should prisoners be barred from volunteering for research? -- Should animal experimentation be stopped? -- Should blood be a gift? -- Should organs be harvested from the dead? -- Is genetic engineering a threat to future generations?
ISBN
  • 9780879674908
  • 0879674903
LCCN
84072706
OCLC
  • ocm10777591
  • 10777591
  • SCSB-602064
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library