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008			930621s1994 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a93024390
020			_a0195085361 (acidfree paper)
020			_a019508537X (pbk.)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dLRW _dTOM _dTMV _dNLM _dUKM _dOCL
049			_aCLAM
050	0	0	_aR724 _b.B36 1994
100	1		_aBeauchamp, Tom L.
245	1	0	_aPrinciples of biomedical ethics / _cTom L. Beauchamp, James F. Childress.
250			_aFourth edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1994.
300			_ax, 546 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aMorality and moral justification -- Morality and ethical theory -- Moral dilemmas -- Method, justification and truth -- Specifying and balancing principles -- Place of principles -- Types of ethical theory -- Criteria for theory construction -- Utilitarianism: consequence-based theory -- Kantianism: obligation-based theory --Character ethics: virtue-based theory -- Liberal individualism: rights-based theory -- Communitarianism: community-based theory -- Ethics of care: relationship-based accounts -- Casuistry: case-based reasoning -- Principle-based, common-morality theories -- Convergence across theories -- Respect for autonomy -- Concept of autonomy -- Competence and autonomous choice -- Meaning and justification of informed consent --Disclosure -- Understanding -- Voluntariness -- Framework of standards for surrogate decisionmaking -- Nonmaleficence -- Concept of nonmaleficence -- Traditional distinctions and rules governing nontreatment -- Optional treatments and obligatory treatments -- Killing and letting die --Justification of assistance in dying.
505	0		_a(cont) Decisionmaking for incompetent patients -- Beneficence -- Concept of beneficence -- Obligatory and ideal beneficence -- Paternalism: conflicts between beneficence and autonomy -- Balancing benefits, costs and risks -- Value and quality of life -- Justice -- Concept of justice -- Theories of justice -- Fair opportunity -- Right to a decent minimum of health care -- Allocation of health care resources -- Rationing through priorities in the health care budget -- Rationing scarce treatments to patients -- Professional-patient relationships -- Veracity -- Privacy --Confidentiality -- Fidelity -- Dual roles of physician and investigator -- Virtues and ideals in professional life -- Virtues in professional roles -- Four focal virtues -- Conscientiousness -- Moral ideals -- Moral excellence -- Cases in biomedical ethics.
650		0	_aMedical ethics.
700	1		_aChildress, James F.
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
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