Bioethics and the Humanities: Attitudes and Perceptions

by R.S. Downie and Jane Macnaughton

Book Overview

Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation.

Illustrating some humanistic ways of understanding patients, this volume explores the connections between medical ethics, healthcare and subjects, such as philosophy, literature, creative writing and medical history and how they can affect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844720527
• ISBN13: 9781844720521
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"