Life Choices
A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics, Second Edition
Joseph H. Howell, William Frederick Sale, Joseph H. Howell, William Frederick Sale
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Life Choices
A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics, Second Edition
Joseph H. Howell, William Frederick Sale, Joseph H. Howell, William Frederick Sale
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An authoritative introduction to bioethics, Life Choices examines a comprehensive range of ethical questions and brings together some of the most probing and instructive essays published in the field.
Some of the articles are classics in the literature of bioethics, while others address current issues. Topics include moral decision making, abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, life-sustaining technologies, organ transplantation, reproductive technologies, and the allocation of health care resources.
This second edition features new sections on the goals and allocation of medicine and on the cloning of human beings. It also includes new articles on genetics, the duty to die, and ethical theory.
Written by the foremost authorities in bioethics, Life Choices provides a comprehensive introduction to the field. Instructors who have used the first edition as a text will welcome this new, updated edition. Scholars and health care practitioners will find it useful as a valuable reference on a wide range of bioethical issues.