| Practical Reasoning in Bioethics Contributor(s): Childress, James F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253332184 ISBN-13: 9780253332189 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $64.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: In his latest book, renowned ethicist James F. Childress uses various metaphors and analogies to highlight the role of imagination in practical reasoning. Childress shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies illuminate moral problems and issues in science, medicine, and health care. The issues he considers include screening and testing for HIV infection, informed consent to and refusal of life-sustaining treatment, allocating scarce health care resources, providing access to and controlling the costs of health care, and obtaining organs and tissues for transplantation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics |
| Dewey: 174.2 |
| LCCN: 96025001 |
| Series: Medical Ethics |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.12" W x 9.48" (1.82 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics . . . --Journal of the American Medical Association Childress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemporary biomedical challenges. --Science Books & Films An ideal supplement for a graduate seminar on bioethics or for upper-division undergraduates needing more information in this area. --Choice In these revised and updated essays, renowned ethicist James F. Childress highlights the role of imagination in practical reasoning through various metaphors and analogies. His discussion of ethical problems contributes to a better understanding of the scope and strength of different moral principles, such as justice, beneficence, and respect for autonomy. At the same time, Childress demonstrates the major role of metaphorical, analogical, and symbolic reasoning in biomedical ethics, largely in conjunction with, rather than in opposition to, principled reasoning. |