Against Bioethics

by Jonathan Baron

Book Overview

Governments, health professionals, patients, research institutions, and research subjects look to bioethicists for guidance in making important decisions about medical treatment and research. And yet, argues Jonathan Baron in Against Bioethics, applied bioethics lacks the authority of a coherent guiding theory and is based largely on intuitive judgments. Baron proposes an alternative, arguing that bioethics could have a coherent theory based on utilitarianism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262025965
• ISBN13: 9780262025966
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"