The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a balanced and systematic ethical framework to help students analyze a wide range of controversial topics in medicine, and consider ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions

Chapter 1: A Map of the Terrain of EthicsChapter 2: The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief HistoryChapter 3: Defining Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare: The Basis of Moral StandingChapter 4: Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the PatientChapter 5: The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them EthicalChapter 6: The Principle of Avoiding of KillingChapter 7: Death and Dying: The Incompetent PatientChapter 8: Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocation of Resources, Transplantation, and Human Subjects ResearchChapter 9: Human Control of Life: Genetics, Birth Technologies and Modifying Human NatureChapter 10: Resolving Conflicts Among PrinciplesChapter 11: The Virtues in BioethicsAppendices:Hippocratic OathPrinciples of Medical Ethics (2001))of the American Medical AssociationUniversal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005)

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