Contains articles published previously in various sources. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The origins and evolution of the Belmont Report -- Codes, declarations, and other ethical guidance for human subjects research : the Belmont Report -- The four principles approach to health care ethics -- Informed consent : its history and nature -- Who deserves autonomy and whose autonomy deserves respect? -- The concept of paternalism in biomedical ethics -- When hastened death is neither killing nor letting die -- The exploitation of the economically disadvantaged in pharmaceutical research -- Principles and other emerging paradigms for bioethics -- A defense of the common morality -- From morality to common morality -- On eliminating the distinction between applied ethics and ethical theory -- Does ethical theory have a future in bioethics? -- The failure of theories of personhood -- Looking back and judging our predecessors.
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