Bioethics Critically Reconsidered: Having Second Thoughts

A Skeptical Introduction to Bioethics - H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

1. History of Bioethics: Four Perspectives

2. Beginning Bioethics - Michael S. Yesley

3. The Genesis of a Totalizing Ideology: Bioethics' Inner Hippie - Griffin Trotter

4. Bioethics and Professional Medical Ethics: Mapping and Managing an Uneasy Relationship - Laurence B. McCullough

5. Two Rival Understandings of Autonomy: Paternalism, and Bioethical Principlism - Aaron E. Hinkley

II. The Practice of Bioethics and Clinical Ethics Consultation: Three Views

6. Bioethics as Political Ideology - Mark J. Cherry

7. The "s" in Bioethics: Past, Present and Future - Ana S. Iltis and Adrienne Carpenter

8. Why Clinical Bioethics So Rarely Gives Morally Normative Guidance - H. T. Engelhardt, Jr.

III. The Incredible Search for Bioethical Professionalism: Some Final Critical Reflections on Circular Thinking

9. On the Social Construction of Health Care Ethics Consultation - Jeffrey P. Bishop

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400722435
• ISBN13: 9789400722439
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"