A Casebook of Medical Ethics

Should a woman with brain death be artificially maintained for the sake of the foetus? Does a doctor have the right to give a life-saving transfusion despite the patient's religious beliefs? Can a family ask for a hysterectomy for their handicapped daughter? Doctors are increasingly...

Reconceiving Medical Ethics

This volume presents a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by attempting to fill in the gaps with minority themes, but by re-examining some fundamental ...

Medical Ethics

This book is intended to serve as a practical introduction to ethical issues that doctors and other healthcare professionals may encounter in their practice. The book is divided into three sections on ethical foundations, clinical ethics and medicine and...