Peter A. Singer - The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics

Medicine and healthcare generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, researchers, bioethicists, and students seeking a better understanding of the ethical problems in the healthcare setting. Each chapter illustrates an ethical problem that might be encountered in everyday practice; defines the concepts at issue; examines their implications from the perspectives of ethics, law, and policy; and then provides a practical resolution. There are 10 key sections presenting the most vital topics and clinically relevant areas of modern bioethics. International, interdisciplinary authorship and cross-cultural orientation ensure suitability for a worldwide audience. This book will assist all clinicians in making well-reasoned and defensible decisions by developing their awareness of ethical considerations and teaching the analytical skills to deal with them effectively.

Peter A. Singer is Director Emeritus, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics; Senior Scientist, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network, University of Toronto; Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto.

A. M. Viens is a Senior Scholar at Hertford College, Oxford, a Doctoral Student in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto.

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Editor-in-Chief Peter A. Singer

Executive Editor A. M. Viens

Section Editors Richard E. Ashcroft, Solomon R. Benatar, Joseph M. Boyle, Jr., Abdallah S. Daar, John Lantos, Susan K. MacRae, David Novak, Anne Slowther, James A. Tulsky, Ross Upshur, and A. M. Viens.