00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862429198 Buklod 20211103152450.0 m | | ta 211103s2012 mau rb |||| u|eng d 9781133587149 1133587143 (iLib)UPBAG-00043057973 OLC BAG rda eng R 724 M86 2012 Munson, Ronald 1939- author. Intervention and reflection basic issues in bioethics Ronald Munson. Ninth edition. Boston, MA, USA Wadsworth, Cengage Learning [2012] xxv, 915 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Revised edition of: Intervention and reflection : basic issues in medical ethics. ©2008. Includes selection of readings written by other authors. Includes bibliographical references. Physicians, patients, and others: autonomy, truth telling, and confidentiality -- Research ethics and informed consent -- Genetic controls -- Reproductive control -- Abortion -- Treating or terminating: the dilemma of impaired infants -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- Organ transplants and scarce medical resources -- Distributing health care -- Women and medicine -- African Americans and medicine -- Epidemic! AIDS and HIV -- of bioethics: ethical theories, moral principles, and medical decisions. In Intervention and reflection, nationally acclaimed bioethicist and novelist Ronald Munson masterfully weds clear and accurate accounts of complex scientific findings with case presentations whose vivid narrative helps students connect science with the human emotion behind important and controversial biomedical decisions. These engaging cases and briefings conclude with succinct summaries of basic ethical theories and are followed by up-to-date and influential articles addressing the most pressing issues in bioethics today. The vibrant writing, along with the wide variety of current cases and issues, make the book appealing and provocative to readers ranging from those with no philosophical or scientific training to those in programs in philosophy, nursing, or medicine. You will quickly learn why Intervention and reflection continues to be the most widely used bioethics textbook on the market: This unusual text is surprisingly hard to put down. Medical ethics. Bioethics. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN R 724 M86 2012 Book