Bioethics: Principles, Issues and Cases, 2nd Edition

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Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, SecondEdition, explores the philosophical, medical, social, and legalaspects of key bioethical issues. Opening with a thoroughintroduction to ethics, bioethics, and moral reasoning, it thencovers influential moral theories and the criteria for evaluatingthem. Integrating eighty-five readings--thirteen of them new tothis edition--numerous cases, and abundant pedagogical tools, thebook addresses the most provocative and controversial topics inbioethics.

Updated throughout, the second edition incorporates new informationon justice, health care, and health insurance reform along withmore coverage of issues related to race and culture and of themoral challenges facing nurses and other health care professionals.It also offers additional step-by-step guidance on how to identifyand evaluate moral arguments in real-world contexts, withaccompanying exercises and answers in an appendix.

PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES:

* "Classic Case Files" describe landmark cases that shaped thedebate, while news-making "Cases for Evaluation" encourage studentsto form their own opinions

* Various text boxes: "In Depth" boxes contain additional material,illustrations, or analyses, much of it "ripped from the headlines";"Fact File" boxes provide statistics on the social, medical, andscientific facets of a chapter's topic; and "Legal Brief" boxessummarize important court rulings and the status of majorlegislation

* "Key Terms" are boldfaced and boxed off within the text and thendefined in a glossary at the back of the book

* "Applying Major Theories" sections at the end of each chapterhelp students relate theories to the issues

* Unique Support Package:

An Instructor's Manual and Testbank on CD features readingsummaries, essay questions, key terms, sample syllabi, and numeroustest questions

* A Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/vaughn contains Powerpointlecture outlines, reading summaries, student self-test questions,flashcards, and helpful web links

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