Bøger af Robert M. Veatch

Veatch proposes a postmodern medicine in which decisions about patient care will routinely involve both doctor and patient-not only in ethically complex cases such as the termination of life-sustaining treatment, but in everyday care as well.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This boo is suitable for professionals in medicine, law, insurance and more.

Where should physicians get their ethics? While the Hippocratic Oath continues to be cited by a wide array of professional associations, scholars, and medical students, the author contends that the pledge is such an offensive code of ethics that it should be summarily excised from the profession.

Despite its increasingly routine nature - or perhaps because of it - transplantation offers enormous ethical challenges. This title explores a variety of questions that vex the transplantation community, offering solutions in many cases. It offers an account of the ethical and policy controversies surrounding organ transplants.