Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals

by K. Danner Clouser, Bernard Gert, Charles M. Culver

An updated and expanded successor to Culver and Gert's Philosophy in Medicine, this book integrates moral philosophy with clinical medicine to present a comprehensive summary of the theory, concepts, and lines of reasoning underlying the field of bioethics. Rather than concentrating narrowly on bioethics and investigating moral philosophy only marginally, the authors provide an explicit account of common morality and show how it applies to and is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195114302
• ISBN13: 9780195114300
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.5" x 6.5"

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I found this book to be inciteful and extremely revlevant to our modern understanding of the ethics of medicine. By posing questions that ask what the doctor's moral duties are and providing answers to the role of the doctor and patient in modern medicine, Gert, Culver, and Clouser highlight the important role of morality in medicine.