Bioethics and Beyond

Bioethics and Beyond

Discusses ethical implications of advances in biology and medicine, a field of inquiry that emerged in the late 1960s, from philosophical, sociological, medical, historical, and legal points of view; international scope; 12 articles. Based in part on papers presented at a workshop held at the Depart...

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Veröffentlicht in:Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 1999-10, Vol.128 (4), p.1-325
Hauptverfasser: KLEINMAN, Arthur, FOX, Renée C, BRANDT, Allan M
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Bioethics
Biomedicine
Comparative analysis
Cultural differences
Economic aspects
Education
Ethics
General points
Health care
Health policy
History of science and technology
History of science in relation to other disciplinary fields
India
Kenya
Law
Medical ethics
Medical sector
Medical sociology
Morality
Organs
Poverty
Public goods
Social inequality
Social justice
Tanzania
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
Transplants
United States
Values
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Zusammenfassung:Discusses ethical implications of advances in biology and medicine, a field of inquiry that emerged in the late 1960s, from philosophical, sociological, medical, historical, and legal points of view; international scope; 12 articles. Based in part on papers presented at a workshop held at the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Includes studies of the sale by living donors of kidneys to be transplanted in others in Chennai (formerly known as the city of Madras), state of Tamil Nadu, India; how the treatment of patients with AIDS is affected by economic factors in Kenya, Tanzania, and the US.
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192