Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, International Edition by Tom Beauchamp (Englis

Description: Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, International Edition by Tom Beauchamp, Jeffrey P. Kahn, Anna Mastroianni, LeRoy Walters Representing all major points of view on the central topics in bioethics, this text contains current essays and actual medical and legal cases, providing readers with diverse views from many standpoints, including medical practitioners and legal experts. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOETHICS, 8E, International Edition provides balanced coverage and detailed analysis of key topics in bioethics, including human reproduction; euthanasia and assisted suicide; genetics and genetic testing; the right to health care; organ donation and transplantation; human and animal research; as well as policy and planning for public health threats. With a diverse range of classic and contemporary essays and landmark court cases written by influential scholars and judges, this anthology will help you understand bioethics from a variety of perspectives. Author Biography Anna Mastroianni is Professor of Law at the University of Washingtons School of Law and Institute for Public Health Genetics. She has additional faculty appointments in the UW Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities and the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Professor Mastroianni received her B.A., B.S., and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her M.P.H. from the University of Washington. She has worked in a number of legal and governmental policy positions in Washington D.C., including Associate Director of President Bill Clintons Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Study Director of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, she worked in the private practice of law in Washington, D.C.. She has served on a number of government and non-government advisory bodies, including the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. She has been nationally recognized for her contributions to health policy, law, and bioethics as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Mastroiannis research interests are in the intersections of law, bioethics, public health and medicine, with a special emphasis on the legal and ethical challenges of research with human subjects and assisted reproductive technologies. Jeffrey Kahn is Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the universitys Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his undergraduate degree from UCLA, and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins (MPH) and Georgetown University, where he received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1989. He has held faculty positions in the medical schools at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota, where he was professor and director in the Center for Bioethics from 1996-2011; he was visiting professor at the University of Zurich in 2009. Dr Kahn has served as staff or a member of a number of national commissions related to bioethics, including chairing the IOM Committee on the Necessity of Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research in 2011. Dr. Kahns research interest includes ethics of leading-edge research, ethics and genetics, and ethics and public health. LeRoy Walters is the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He received his BA from a small Pennsylvania liberal-arts college, Messiah College, and a B.D. degree at the Associated Mennonite Seminaries. He then studied for two years in Germany, one year at the University of Heidelberg and one year at the Free University of Berlin. Walters returned to the United States and received his PhD in Christian ethics from Yale University. In 1971, Walters joined the newly-established Kennedy Institute of Ethics as the first faculty member appointed to a multi-year term. He served as director of the Institute from 1996-2000. His interests are in the ethical issues in human genetics, and since 2003 Dr. Walters has devoted major attention to Holocaust Studies and to the "euthanasia" program initiated in 1939 under National Socialism. Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown Universitys Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He received graduate degrees from Yale University (Divinity) and Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in in philosophy 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and in the mid-70s accepted a joint appointment at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 1976, he joined the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he wrote the bulk of The Belmont Report (1978). Dr. Beauchamps research interests are in Hume and the history of modern philosophy and practical ethics, especially biomedical ethics and business ethics. Table of Contents 1. Ethical Theory and Bioethics.2. The Patient-Professional Relationship.3. Genetics and Genomics.4. Reproduction.5. End of Life.6. Organ Transplantation.7. Biomedical Research, Biotechnology and Bioscience.8. Justice and Health.9. Public Health. Review 1. Ethical Theory and Bioethics. 2. The Patient-Professional Relationship. 3. Genetics and Genomics. 4. Reproduction. 5. End of Life. 6. Organ Transplantation. 7. Biomedical Research, Biotechnology and Bioscience. 8. Justice and Health. 9. Public Health. Review Text 1. Ethical Theory and Bioethics.2. The Patient-Professional Relationship. 3. Genetics and Genomics.4. Reproduction.5. End of Life.6. Organ Transplantation.7. Biomedical Research, Biotechnology and Bioscience.8. Justice and Health.9. Public Health. Details ISBN113393529X Author LeRoy Walters Year 2013 ISBN-10 113393529X ISBN-13 9781133935292 Media Book Pages 800 Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc Short Title CONTEMP ISSUES IN BIOETHICS Language English Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc Place of Publication Belmont, CA Country of Publication United States DEWEY 174.2 Illustrations illustrations Publication Date 2013-01-01 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2013-01-01 AU Release Date 2013-01-01 NZ Release Date 2013-01-01 US Release Date 2013-01-01 Edition Description 8th edition Edition 8th Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:150350986;

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