The Ethics of Bioethics : Mapping the Moral Landscape

摘要: Stem cell research. Drug company influence. Abortion. Contraception. Long-term and end-of-life care. Human participants Informed consent. The list of ethical issues in science, medicine, public health is long continually growing. These complex pose a daunting task for professionals the expanding field bioethics. But what practice bioethics itself? What do ethicists bioethicists confront their efforts to facilitate sound moral reasoning judgment variety venues? Are those immersed capable making right decisions? How why they face challenge-and even compromise-as ethicists? values should guide them? In Ethics Bioethics, Lisa A. Eckenwiler Felicia G. Cohn tackle these questions head on, bringing together notable medical people outside discipline discuss common criticisms, field's inherent tensions, assign assess success. Through twenty-five lively essays examining history trends, shortcomings strengths, political policy interplay within bioethical realm, this comprehensive book begins much-needed critical constructive discussion landscape