Medical ethics: a very short introduction [1. publ., Nachdr. ed.] 9780192802828, 0192802828

Medical ethics is an area that has particular interest for the general public as well as for the medical practitioner, a

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Table of contents :
On why medical ethics is exciting --
Euthanasia: good medical practice, or murder? --
Why undervaluing 'statistical' people costs lives --
People who don't exist, at least not yet --
A tool-box for reasoning --
Inconsistencies about madness --
How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality --
Is medical research the new imperialism? --
Family medicine meets the House of Lords.

Medical ethics: a very short introduction [1. publ., Nachdr. ed.]
 9780192802828, 0192802828

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