Clinical Ethics introduces the four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (i.e., medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). Found insideProfessor Giovanni Maio, the eloquent advocate of a new culture of medicine, poses fundamental questions in this book that no one can really avoid: Where are the promises of reproductive and transplantation medicine leading us? This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent problems in bioethics: decision-making for incompetents. This volume is the first to present a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements. An updated and expanded successor to Culver and Gert's Philosophy in Medicine, this book integrates moral philosophy with clinical medicine to present a comprehensive summary of the theory, concepts, and lines of reasoning underlying the ... 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