Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine

by Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Raphael Sassower, Mary Ann Cutter

"Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine" jettisons the standard medical ethics models of "rights" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and the public are related to and are explicable in terms of the epistemological foundations of science and medicine. These epistemological concerns include how medical knowledge is established (scientific validity), how medical protocols are administered (checks and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844651061
• ISBN13: 9781844651061
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages