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Bioethics in the clinic: Hippocratic reflections
Gillett, Grant 
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN10: 0801878438 ISBN13: 9780801878435 DDC: 174.2 LCC: R724 Edition: (hbk. : alk. paper)

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"Gillett focuses on general and specific problems of clinical practice, particularly as they affect the physician-patient relationship. The author then addresses ethical problems related to both the end of life, including euthanasia, and the beginning of life, such as embryo and stem cell research. This book will be of interest to those in medical fields, to students and scholars of philosophy, and to lay readers interested in the profound ethical dramas played out in hospitals and doctors' offices."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. The case of empty head : cultures, values and bioethics -- 2. Hippocrates' children -- 3. What is medical truth? -- 4. Getting over informed consent -- 5. Listening to the silences -- 6. Surgeons, patients, and unnecessary holes in the head -- 7. When good doctors do bad things -- 8. Is AIDS the postmodern illness? -- 9. Healthy bodies, the medical panopticon, and alternative medicine -- 10. The ending of life -- 11. Ethics in limbo -- 12. Euthanasia, the pause, and the last rights -- 13. Ethics, embryos, and stem cell research -- 14. Save the life of my child -- 15. Joanna May revisited : the cloning debate -- Epilogue : mildly philosophical remarks -- App. A. On metaethics -- App. B. Narrative metaphysics -- App. C. The idea of a form.

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