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Author: David Steinberg
Publisher: University Press of New England
Imprint: University Press of New England
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9781584656432
ISBN 10: 1584656433
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 30 September 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
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Reviews
. . . The book is a satisfying read that presents many different complex ethical problems in an engaging manner. --Journal of the American Medical Association Journal of the American Medical Association The American Journal of Psychiatry Metapsychology online reviews Reading ethical analyses one is certainly accustomed to the critics of irregularities, abuses and unacceptable phenomena of clinical practice but in this book we can find more: attempts to reflect on limits, failures and irresolvable conflicts in methods of bioethics itself. Questions like 'Is bioethics able to analyze problems in our culturally diverse societies, or those of novel technologies?' have importance in the book. This honest approach is a great strength of the book. This well written and well argued intellectual endeavor in medicine and biology is recommended to those who do not need systematic introduction to bioethical issues but want to have a wide picture on what is present bioethics about. -- Metapsychology online reviews Biomedical Ethics is a highly readable survey of contemporary thought on a wide range of challenging moral issues confronted by physicians and other health care workers and is highly recommended. -- The American Journal of Psychiatry . . The book is a satisfying read that presents many different complex ethical problems in an engaging manner. -- Journal of the American Medical Association . . The book is a satisfying read that presents many different complex ethical problems in an engaging manner. Journal of the American Medical Association Reading ethical analyses one is certainly accustomed to the critics of irregularities, abuses and unacceptable phenomena of clinical practice but in this book we can find more: attempts to reflect on limits, failures and irresolvable conflicts in methods of bioethics itself. Questions like 'Is bioethics able to analyze problems in our culturally diverse societies, or those of novel technologies?' have importance in the book. This honest approach is a great strength of the book. This well written and well argued intellectual endeavor in medicine and biology is recommended to those who do not need systematic introduction to bioethical issues but want to have a wide picture on what is present bioethics about. Metapsychology online reviews Biomedical Ethics is a highly readable survey of contemporary thought on a wide range of challenging moral issues confronted by physicians and other health care workers and is highly recommended. The American Journal of Psychiatry
. . . The book is a satisfying read that presents many different complex ethical problems in an engaging manner. --Journal of the American Medical Association
. . The book is a satisfying read that presents many different complex ethical problems in an engaging manner. Journal of the American Medical Association
Author Information
David Steinberg, M.D. is Director of the Section of Medical Ethics at Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, where he practices hematology. He is editor of the journal, Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics, and is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
