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• Title:Bioethics in the clinic : Hippocratic reflections / Grant R. Gillett.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gillett, Grant, 1950-
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB60 .G544 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: WB60 .G544 2004
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Clinical medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Bioethics.
  Medicine--Philosophy.
  
• Medical Subjects: Ethics, Clinical.
  Bioethical Issues.
  Philosophy, Medical.
  
• Description:xi, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"Gillett focuses on general and specific problems of clinical practice, particularly as they affect the physician-patient relationship. The author then addresses ethical problems related to both the end of life, including euthanasia, and the beginning of life, such as embryo and stem cell research. This book will be of interest to those in medical fields, to students and scholars of philosophy, and to lay readers interested in the profound ethical dramas played out in hospitals and doctors' offices."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-306) and index.
  
• ISBN:0801878438 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. The case of empty head : cultures, values and bioethics
  2. Hippocrates' children
  3. What is medical truth?
  4. Getting over informed consent
  5. Listening to the silences
  6. Surgeons, patients, and unnecessary holes in the head
  7. When good doctors do bad things
  8. Is AIDS the postmodern illness?
  9. Healthy bodies, the medical panopticon, and alternative medicine
  10. The ending of life
  11. Ethics in limbo
  12. Euthanasia, the pause, and the last rights
  13. Ethics, embryos, and stem cell research
  14. Save the life of my child
  15. Joanna May revisited : the cloning debate
  Epilogue : mildly philosophical remarks
  App. A. On metaethics
  App. B. Narrative metaphysics
  App. C. The idea of a form.