The American Experience in Bioethics

This volume tracks the development in the United States of the field of Bioethics, Ethics applied to the disciplines of medicine, nursing, and health care in general, including medical research and the complex economic and political problems surrounding the provision of medical and nursing care. It explains how the United States developed, case by case, the central rules and principles of ER ethics in the Health Care System. The discussion includes the controversies centering on birth, death, clinical research, experimental procedures (cloning, reproductive technology, organ transplants), and ends with a substantial suggestion on the provision of health care for all.

List of contents

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Birth, Life and Death.- Chapter 2. The Cutting Edge.- Chapter 3. Allocation of Health Care Resources.

Summary

This volume tracks the development in the United States of the field of Bioethics, Ethics applied to the disciplines of medicine, nursing, and health care in general, including medical research and the complex economic and political problems surrounding the provision of medical and nursing care. It explains how the United States developed, case by case, the central rules and principles of ER ethics in the Health Care System. The discussion includes the controversies centering on birth, death, clinical research, experimental procedures (cloning, reproductive technology, organ transplants), and ends with a substantial suggestion on the provision of health care for all.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Newton
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2013
• EAN: 9783319003627
• ISBN: 978-3-31-900362-7
• No. of pages: 81
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 6 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 162 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 81 p.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics; SpringerBriefs in Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophie, C, Ethics, Biologie, Biowissenschaften, Philosophy, Biology, life sciences, Medical Ethics, Religion and Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Biology—Philosophy, Stem Cell Research, Theoretical Ethics, Understandings of Death and Treatment, Physician Assisted Death, Medical practice in U.S., Medicare And Medicaid Funds, Tracking Health, Introduction to Biomedical Research, Issues of Bioethics, Moral Dilemmas of Biomedicine, Natural Death