Thieves of Virtue : When Bioethics Stole Medicine

Koch, Tom, 1949-

Thieves of Virtue : When Bioethics Stole Medicine [E-Book] - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012. - 1 online resource. - Basic bioethics . - Basic bioethics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dead Germans and other philosophers: ethics as a professional or public occupation -- Something old: a brief review -- Something newer: supply-side ethics -- Lifeboat ethics: scarcity as an unnatural state -- Biopolitics, biophilosophies, and bioethics -- Principles of biomedical ethics -- Bioethics and conformal humans -- Research and genetics: "for the benefit of humankind" -- Choice, freedom, and the paternalism thing -- Complex ethics: toward an ethics of medicine.

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Bioethics--History.
Bioethics--Political aspects.
Bioethics--Philosophy.
Medical ethics--Political aspects.
Medical ethics--Philosophy.
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