Ethics and Perinatology

ISBN-13: 9780192623799 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 512 str.

Amnon Ed. Goldworth; Amnon Goldworth; David K. Stevenson

Opis

The rapid development of new technology used in obstetrics and neonatology has been accompanied by new moral problems presented by the choices this technology generates. Ethics and Perinatology is a timely examination of the moral problems caused by clinical and research practices in perinatology. 14 major issues are each addressed by a leading clinician whose writing is then critically reviewed by a medical ethicist, a legal theorist, or an economist. Thus each chapter embodies the independent perspectives of international experts from different disciplines. This book offers a new approach to the presentation of ideas in medical ethics concerning obstetrics and perinatology that will benefit all physicians, nurses, philosophers, and medical ethicists, as well as the interested lay reader.

Recenzje

This is an immensely satisfying book which meets a pressing need for balanced, in-depth discussion of the many difficult issues confronting those whose work is involved with the unborn, the new-born and their families...It does not come up with simple ansers but it does look deeply at the problems as well as the progress, and helps us all to work through our own position on difficult questions...the whole book is immensely valuable to all with an interest in ethics and technology at the edges of life.