Laura K. Guidry-Grimes

The Basics of Bioethics

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Produktbeschreibung

The Basics of Bioethics, Fifth Edition offers a compelling introduction to the fascinating, ever-evolving field of bioethics. Accessible and richly informative for readers from all backgrounds, this book provides an essential foundation in theories and concepts, which are then applied to numerous thought-provoking cases and contemporary questions. Chapters are organized around common moral themes in order to help readers understand the values and other connections that tie together different positions in bioethics. Since the last edition, the field of bioethics has had to grapple with additional challenges, critiques, and difficult decisions. Readers are guided through the ethical complexities of abortion, medical aid in dying, genetic engineering, posthumous reproduction, biomedical research, and organ transplantation, among other topics. Key changes to the Fifth Edition include: * A new chapter dedicated to public health emergencies, incorporating key lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic that are relevant for future crisis planning. * An introduction to disability ethics among non-principlist approaches, which continues to grow in influence in bioethics. * Statistics and references have been supplemented across all chapters, integrating more international perspectives and data. * New and updated cases illustrating a range of contemporary bioethical issues. * Updated references and Key Concepts at the end of each chapter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 5. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032775364
• ISBN-10: 103277536X
• Artikelnr.: 75126076

Autorenporträt

Laura K. Guidry-Grimes is Staff Bioethicist at Cleveland Clinic with faculty appointments at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University. She provides clinical ethics consultation and teaches bioethics to practitioners, trainees, and students across disciplines. She co-authored the 4th Edition of The Basics of Bioethics (2019) and co-edited Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World (with Elizabeth Victor, 2021) and Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics (with Jamie Carlin Watson, 2018). Robert M. Veatch, before his passing in 2020, was Senior Research Scholar and Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus, and former Director at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. While co-author to the previous 4th Edition of The Basics of Bioethics (2019), he also authored, co-authored, or edited 60 additional books including Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics (2012), Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics (with Amy Haddad and Dan English, 2015), Transplantation Ethics ( with Lainie F. Ross, 2015), and Defining Death: The Case for Choice (with Lainie F. Ross, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics 2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its
Challengers: A Brief History 3. The Basis of Moral Status in Debates on
Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare 4. Principle-Based
Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics 5. Alternative Approaches:
Virtues, Casuistry, Narrative Ethics, Feminist Ethics, Care Ethics, and
Disability Ethics 6. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm 7. The Ethics
of Respect for Persons 8. The Principle of Avoiding Killing 9. The Ethics
of Deciding on Behalf of Another 10. Human Control of Life: Genetics and
Modifying Human Nature 11. Reproductive Choice and Technologies: Ethical
Challenges in the Creation of Humans 12. Social Ethics of Medicine: Utility
Measures, Healthcare Systems, Transplantation, and Research Involving Human
Participants 13 Public Health in Crisis: Emergency Planning and Triage
Appendix.

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1. A Map of the Terrain of Ethics 2. The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History 3. The Basis of Moral Standing in Debates on Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare 4. Principle-based Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics 5. Alternative Approaches: Virtues, Casuistry and Narrative Ethics, Feminist Approaches, and Care Ethics 6. Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient 7. The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical 8. The Principle of Avoiding Killing 9. Death and Dying for Patients Who Are Not Their Own Decision-makers 10. Human Control of Life: Genetics and Modifying Human Nature 11. Reproductive Choice and Advancing Technologies: Ethical Challenges in the Creation of Humans 12. Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocating Resources, Health Insurance, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research

Rezensionen

"Veatch and Guidry-Grimes have set a new standard for balancing breadth, clarity, and accessibility for introductory texts in healthcare ethics. They impressively cover a wide range of important topics, and they are judicious and fair in their discussion of the many sides to pressing bioethical debates. This text will serve well undergraduate students in general healthcare ethics courses, as well as anyone looking for an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in bioethics."
Michael J. Deem, Duquesne University

"A good bioethics primer will give a concise skim of basic concepts and still manage to show where there is consensus and disagreement and why. It will introduce new frameworks and provide a range of cases from classic to piping hot fresh. It may well have a point of view, but it will not pretend to be the only possible point of view. This is that primer.

Embedded in the American medical context, The Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition incorporates new approaches to bioethics into the classic bioethics toolkit, includes discussions of end-of-life issues and consent but also of reproduction and genetics, and addresses social aspects of health care including the ever-shifting U.S. policy context. Classic cases like Canterbury and Henrietta Lacks partner with modern ones on weight-loss surgery, CRISPR genetic technology, and the contested end of teenager Jahi McMath's life. Each chapter can stand alone and could enrich another primary text-if whatever else you're reading leaves out virtue ethics, narrative ethics, care ethics, and feminist ethics, there's a chapter here for that. However, this book is also an effective single text. If you're looking for an American bioethics primer that doesn't just retread old ground, but includes fertile new frameworks and topics, this one's worth your time."
Alison Reiheld, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville