|aBioethics in the clinic :|bHippocratic reflections /|cGrant R. Gillett.
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|aBaltimore :|bJohns Hopkins University Press,|cc2004.
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|axi, 309 p. ;|c24 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.
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|aThe case of the empty head: cultures, values, and bioethics -- Hippocrates's children -- What is medical truth? -- Getting over informed consent -- Listening to the silences -- Surgeons, patients, and unnecessary holes in the head -- When good doctors do bad things -- Is AIDS the postmodern illness? -- Healthy bodies, the medical panoptikon, and alternative medicine -- The endings of life -- Ethics in limbo -- Euthanasia, the pause, and the last rights -- Ethics, embryos, and stem cell research -- Save the life of my child -- Joanna May revisited: the cloning debate.