Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

• This short and accessible introduction explores the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine
• An invaluable tool for medical practitioners and lay people alike
• Covers controversial issues such as: who should have access to reproductive technology? Should active euthanasia be legalized? When can a mentally ill person be treated against his or her will?

Readership: General readers as well as students of ethics, medicine, nursing, science in general, and medical practitioners.

Tony Hope, Ethox, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford

"...engrossing taster" - Paul Nettleton, Guardian Life

1: Why is medical ethics so exciting?
2: Euthanasia
3: Allocating heath resources
4: People who don't exist: at least not yet
5: A tool-box for reasoning
6: The inconsistencies of madness
7: How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality
8: Medical research in poor countries
9: Ordinary medical practice

Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction - a reading guide