Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics

This book provides a collection of original essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics research. Leading philosophers give in-depth accounts of issues as diverse as embryo pre-selection, the role of autonomy in organ transplant markets, conscientious objection in the health care professions and neonatal euthanasia. Provocative and original, the contributions to this volume will be of interest to academic, students and health care professionals alike.

Author: N. Athanassoulis
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/08/2005
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.96w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781403945273

About the Author
PIERS BENN Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, Imperial College, UK KATRIEN DEVOLDER is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and is based at the Bioethics Institute Ghent at Ghent University, Belgium HEATHER DRAPER is Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences University of Birmingham, UK RAY FREY Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green University, USA JOHN HARRIS Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK HALLVARD LILLEHAMMER Fellow of King's College, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University, UK DAVID S. ODERBERG Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UK JAMES STACEY TAYLOR Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey USA STEPHEN WILKINSON Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy, Keele University, UK

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