Readings in Health Care Ethics - Softcover

Readings in Health Care Ethics provides a wide-ranging selection of important and engaging contributions to the field of health care ethics. Designed as a course text for undergraduate use, the anthology includes fifty-six selections grouped into ten sections. Included are a wide range of the most important essays both on long standing issues in biomedical ethics (such as consent, euthanasia, and research involving human subjects); and on issues that have particularly come to the fore in recent years, such as the allocation of scarce medical resources, and genetic alteration.An extensive introduction provides a accessible general overview of ethical theory for those without previous familiarity with philosophical concepts.

Elisabeth Boetzkes and Wilfrid J. Waluchow are both professors in the Department of Philosophy at McMaster University. Wilfrid J. Waluchow is also the author (with John Thomas) of Well and Good: A Case Study Approach to Biomedical Ethics (Broadview 3/e, 1998), and of Inclusive Legal Positivism (Oxford University Press, 1994).