Publication

1997 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

96,250 words, Guess

Page Count

385 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number96025001
  • OCLC Control Number34984136
  • Better World Books9780253332189
  • Open LibraryOL986902M

Classifications

  • DDC174/.2
  • LCCR724 .C477 1997
  • LCCR724.C477 1997

Description

In his latest book, renowned ethicist James F. Childress uses various metaphors and analogies to highlight the role of imagination in practical reasoning. Childress shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies illuminate moral problems and issues in science, medicine, and health care. The issues he considers include screening and testing for HIV infection, informed consent to and refusal of life-sustaining treatment, allocating scarce health care resources, providing access to and controlling the costs of health care, and obtaining organs and tissues for transplantation.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Medical ethics series

Other Editions

  • Practical reasoning in bioethicsIndiana University Press1997-01-01

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