In Bioethics and Armed Conflict, the first comprehensive study of medical ethics in conventional, unconventional, and low-intensity war, Michael Gross examines the dilemmas that arise when bioethical principles clash with military necessity--when physicians try to save lives during an endeavor dedicated...
Bioethics can cover a wide variety of dilemmas: Medical ethics addresses such issues as physician–patient relationships, abortion, euthanasia and the right to die, emerging medical technologies, and the right to health care. Animal ethics deals with questions of animal research, the ethics of ...
Review of Michael L. Gross. Bioethics and armed conflict/moral dilemmas of medicine and war.ETHICSThis article has no associated abstract. ( fix it )doi:10.1080/15265160802490136EdmundG.HoweTaylor & Francis GroupAmerican Journal of Bioethics
Review:“Code of Conduct Biotechnology” on Udemy is a focused course that addresses the ethical considerations and professional standards in the rapidly evolving biotechnology field. This course explores the intersection of biotechnology with ethical, legal, and social issues, providing guidelines on navi...
“savior siblings” who donate needed body organs or tissues to siblings. These all raise particularly thorny issues around informed consent, autonomy, and decision-making for adolescents. It is those difficult matters that bioethics addresses. Although the field of children’s bioethics continues to ...
Gross, M. 2006. Bioethics and armed conflict: Moral dilemmas of medicine and war. Cambridge: MIT Press.Selgelid MJ: Michael L. Gross, Bioethics and armed conflict: moral dilemmas of medicine and war. Minerva 2008; 46(3): 381-4.
In his book Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War, Michael Gross confronts two attitudes that create tension for the medical community during armed conflict: "medical ethics in the times of armed conflict is identical to medical treatment in times of peace" and that a...
T. Joy Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War By Michael L. Gross. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 0-262-57226-5. Tables. Notes. References. Index. Pp. xv, 384. $26.00. The Hippocratic Oath (4th century BCE) and Grotius's Laws (1625) defined ...
Moreover, because modern bioethicists rarely acknowledge this difference, modern bioethics is inadequate to satisfactorily deal with moral dilemmas encountered when principles of bioethics conflict with principles of warfare. Gross's solution is to reevaluate the relationship between the foundational ...