Im letzten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden die traditionellen Berufsethiken in der Medizin durch neue Entwicklungen in den Lebenswissenschaften herausgefordert. Das Buch untersucht die hippokratische Tradition und integriert moralphilosophische Überlegungen, um gängige Annahmen in der biomedizinischen Wissenschaft und Gesundheitsversorgung zu hinterfragen.
The Human Use of Animals presents case studies that look at the practical and ethical issues arising from the human use of animals. The case studies report the facts about some of the most compelling and difficult issues that confront society today in the human use of animals. Each case study combines the facts of the case with analysis of ethical issues.
This edition represents a thorough revision of a classic text in biomedical ethics, featuring significant structural changes. A new concluding chapter on methods complements a chapter on moral theory, emphasizing convergence across theories, coherence in moral justification, and common morality. The opening chapter on moral norms has been simplified to introduce prima facie moral principles and their specification and balancing, making it more accessible for students entering bioethics courses. Additionally, there is a greater focus on character and moral agency, distinguishing between agents and actions. Key sections on truth-telling, disclosure of bad news, privacy, conflicts of interest, and research on human subjects have been extensively reworked. The four core chapters on principles—respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice—along with the chapter on professional-patient relationships, maintain their familiar structure but have been fully updated to reflect recent developments in philosophical analysis, research, medicine, and health care. Actual cases are used throughout to illuminate and test the theory, method, and framework of principles presented in the text.
The authors examine ethical theory and business practice, the purpose of the corporation, corporate character and individual responsibility, acceptable risk, the ethical treatment of employees, diversity and discrimination in the workplace, marketing and disclosure of information, ethical issues in information technology and, ethical issues in international business.