Bioethics in the Clinic: Hippocratic Reflections

by Grant Gillett

Book Overview

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

What is so special about human life? What is the relationship between flesh and blood and the human soul? Is there a kind of life that is worse than death? Can a person die and yet the human organism remain in some real sense alive? Can souls become sick? What justifies cutting into a living human body? These and other questions, writes neurosurgeon and philosopher Grant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801878438
• ISBN13: 9780801878435
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"