The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics

The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine. This book: examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology; brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues; and, tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality. It is organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.