Looseleaf for Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics

by Alex John London, Bonnie Steinbock, John D. Arras

Overview

Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics, Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art anthology that covers both traditional and emerging issues in the field of biomedical ethics with engaging case studies and reflective papers written by leading scholars. Each of the book’s seven parts begins with a helpful introduction that raises important questions and skillfully contextualizes the positions and key points of the articles that follow. This eighth edition has been thoroughly updated to include the most important recent contributions to contemporary debates, and all selections have been subjected to the editors’ exacting standards for both scholarly quality and teachability.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781259406492
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/29/2012
Edition description:	8th ed.
Pages:	880
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Alex John London is associate professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Bonnie Steinbock is professor of philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and a faculty member of the Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

John D. Arras is the William and Linda Porterfield Professor of Bioethics, and professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.