Robert M. Veatch
Autor de The basics of bioethics
Sobre El Autor
Robert Veatch is currently a professor of medical ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. For ten years previously, he was on the staff of the Hastings Center (formerly the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences). Veatch was born mostrar más in Utica, New York, and received a B.S. degree from Purdue University (1961), an M.S. from the University of California at San Francisco (1962), and a B.D. (1964), M.A.(1970), and Ph.D. (1971) from Harvard University. A lecturer and writer, Veatch is the author of many important books on ethical issues in biology and medicine. Veatch's areas of interest center on the relation of science to public policy, death and dying, and experimentation on human subjects. He has worked both to assemble numerous case studies and to advance general theoretical reflection in these areas. In A Theory of Medical Ethics (1981), he argues that current medical codes such as the Hippocratic Oath are too restrictive and lack sufficient support for comprehensive use in the medical profession. The solution, he argues, is that medicine can no longer be based on a professionally articulated code. Instead, Veatch proposes a "covenant" theory of medical ethics that resembles the traditional social contract of philosophers such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Robert M. Veatch
Disrupted dialogue : medical ethics and the collapse of physician-humanist communication (1770-1980) (2004) 9 copias
The Patient As Partner: A Theory of Human-Experimentation Ethics (Medical Ethics Series) (1987) 6 copias
Value-freedom in science and technology : a study of the importance of the religious, ethical, and other socio-cultural… (1976) 2 copias
The foundations of justice : why the retarded and the rest of us have claims to equality (1986) 2 copias
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