Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Jonsen, Albert R.

Title The birth of bioethics / Albert R. Jonsen.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  174.2 J81B    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 431 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Great issues of conscience: medical ethics before bioethics -- Ch. 2. The theologians: rediscovering the tradition -- Ch. 3. The philosophers: clarifying the concepts -- Ch. 4. Commissioning bioethics: the government in bioethics, 1974-1983 -- Ch. 5. Experiments perilous: the ethics of research with human subjects -- Ch. 6. Splicing life: genetics and ethics -- Ch. 7. The miracle of modern medicine: the ethics of organ transplantation and artificial organs -- Ch. 8. Who should live? Who should die? The ethics of death and dying -- Ch. 9. O Brave New World! The ethics of human reproduction -- Ch. 10. Bioethics as a discipline -- Ch. 11. Bioethics as a discourse -- Ch. 12. Bioethics--American and elsewhere.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Medical ethics -- United States -- History.
Bioethics -- United States -- History.
Ethics, Medical -- history -- United States.
Bioethics -- history -- United States.
ISBN 0195103254
-->
Add a Review