Robert A Veatch

Ethical Issues in Death and Dying (2nd Edition)

This anthology of major classical and contemporary views on key ethical aspects of death and dying is the only philosophically sophisticated, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date introduction to the subject available. Pairs pro and con arguments to give a balanced perspective. Covers a range of to...

Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics: The Points of Conflict

Where should physicians get their ethics? Professional codes such as the Hippocratic Oath claim moral authority for those in a particular field, yet according to medical ethicist Robert Veatch, these codes have little or nothing to do with how members of a guild should understand morality or make et...

Transplantation Ethics

Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from a dead person have successfully been procured and transplanted into a living person. After fourteen years, the three main issues that Robert Veatch first out...

Ethics, Trust, and the Professions: Philosophical and Cultural Aspects

The essays in Ethics, Trust, and the Professions probe the nature of the fiduciary relationship that binds client to lawyer, believer to minister, and patient to doctor. Angles of approach include history, sociology, philosophy, and culture, and their very multiplicity reveals how difficult we find ...

Transplantation Ethics

Three decades after the first heart transplant surgery stunned the world, organs including eyes, lungs, livers, kidneys, and hearts are transplanted every day. But despite its increasingly routine nature-or perhaps because of it-transplantation offers enormous ethical challenges. A medical ethicist ...

Patient, Heal Thyself: How the "New Medicine" Puts the Patient in Charge

Robert Veatch is one of the founding fathers of contemporary bioethics. In Patient, Heal Thyself, he sheds light on a fundamental change sweeping through the American health care system, a change that puts the patient in charge of treatment to an unprecedented extent. The change is in how we think a...

The Basics of Bioethics

The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a balanced and systematic ethical framework to help students analyze a wide range of controversial topics in medicine, and consider ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions. The Basics of Bioethics covers the “Pri...

Case Studies In Nursing Ethics (Fry, Case Studies in Nursing Ethics)

As the healthcare professional in closest contact with both the patient and the physician, nurses face biomedical ethical problems in unique ways. Accordingly, Case Studies in Nursing Ethics presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice, th...

Death Inside Out: The Hastings Center Report

Death Inside Out: The Hastings Center Report

The Foundations of Justice: Why the Retarded and the Rest of Us Have Claims to Equality

Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics

Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics

The Patient-Physician Relation: The Patient As Partner, Part 2

Death, Dying, and the Biological Revolution: Our Last Quest for Responsibility

Death, Dying, and the Biological Revolution: Our Last Quest for Responsibility