Is there an ethicist in the house? : on the cutting edge of bioethics / Jonathan D. Moreno.

Author/creator Moreno, Jonathan D.
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Descriptionxv, 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBioethics and the humanities
Bioethics and the humanities. ^A695239
Contents Is there an ethicist in the house? -- Call me doctor? Confessions of a hospital philosopher -- Arguing euthanasia -- Bioethics is a naturalism -- Ethics consultation as moral engagement -- Ethics by committee: the moral authority of consensus -- Goodbye to all that: the end of moderate protectionism in human subjects research -- Convenient and captive populations -- Regulation of research in the decisionally impaired -- "The only feasible means": the Pentagon's ambivalent relationship with the Nuremberg code -- Reassessing the influence of the Nuremberg code on American medical ethics -- Cancer, truth, and genetics -- Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society -- Bioethics after the terror -- Another impossible profession.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005001676
ISBN0253346355 (cloth : alk. paper)