Morals and Medicine: The Moral Problems of the Patient's Right to Know the Truth, Contraception, Artificial Insemination, Sterilization, Eu

by Joseph F. Fletcher

Book Overview

In Morals and Medicine a leading Protestant theologian comes to grips with the problems of conscience raised by new advances in medical science and technology. They arise as issues at the start or making of a life, in preserving its health, and in facing its death. They are the problems of Everyman: some are new problems of conscience, such as artificial insemination; some are old problems in new dimensions, such as euthanasia. Modern medicine provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691072345
• ISBN13: 9780691072340
• Release Date: September 1954
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.