Bioethics : an introduction to the history, methods, and practice / [edited by] Nancy S. Jecker, Albert R. Jonsen, Robert A. Pearlman.

Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [1997], ©1997.

xii, 416 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

The history of bioethics -- Moral questions -- Experimentation and human subjects -- To save or let die -- Bioethics as a discipline -- The methods of bioethics -- Deductive approaches -- Inductive methods -- Descriptive methods -- Cultural assumptions in bioethical methods -- The practice of bioethics -- Clinical bioethics -- Clinical policy development -- Cultural assumptions in the practice of bioethics.