Dr. Brendan Parent Arthur L. Caplan Wendell Wallach
This collection of essays emphasizes societya s increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology. Expansion of technological capacity and attention to patient safety have long been integral to improving healthcare delivery but only relatively recently have concepts like respect, distributive justice, privacy, and autonomy gained some power to shape the development, use, and refinement of medical tools and techniques. Medical ethics goes beyond making better medicine to thinking about how to make the field of medicine better. These essays showcase...
This collection of essays emphasizes societya s increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology. Expansion ...