Overview
The question of how societies respond to our bodies' ills is one which has had tremendous hold on contemporary imaginations. This reader includes selections by the best thinkers in the ethics of health care, bioethics and philosophy of health care. Unlike the majority of collections that serve undergraduate and graduate courses in bioethics, this book stresses a wider range of questions and invites enquiry that should broaden the range of discourse.
Full Product Details
Author: Hilde Lindemann Nelson ,
Nelson Hilde Lindemann ,
Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.930kg
ISBN: 9780415919159
ISBN 10: 0415919150
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 22 July 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Two distinctive and welcome voices in bioethics are once again performing as a duet. James Nelson and Hilde Nelson's new volume, Meaning and Medicine, will appeal especially to readers and teachers who hunger for a creative integration of the old and the new in bioethics. This volume brings together many fine and familiar standards from the bioethics literature with some striking new voices and new themes. Add to these pieces the Nelsons' interpretive essays, and you have a fine new contribution to bioethics, as well as a strong candidate text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in bioethics . -Thomas H. Murray, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Two distinctive and welcome voices in bioethics are once again performing as a duet. James Nelson and Hilde Nelson's new volume, Meaning and Medicine, will appeal especially to readers and teachers who hunger for a creative integration of the old and the new in bioethics. This volume brings together many fine and familiar standards from the bioethics literature with some striking new voices and new themes. Add to these pieces the Nelsons' interpretive essays, and you have a fine new contribution to bioethics, as well as a strong candidate text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in bioethics<br>. <br>-Thomas H. Murray, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine <br>
Author Information
James Lindemann Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. Hilde Lindemann Nelson is Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is editor of Feminism andFamilies (Routledge 1997). They are the authors of ThePatient in the Family (Routledge 1995) and Alzheimer's:Answers to Hard Questions for Families (1996).
