Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics

822 Pages·2008·48.863 MB·English

by  Ronald Munson

RONALD MUNSON
BASIC ISSUES IN MEDICAL ETHICS
EIGHTH EDITION
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Intervention and Reflection
Basic Issues in Medical Ethics
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To Miriam
"Giver of bright rings"
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Ronald Munson is Professor of the Philosophy
of Science and Medicine at the University of
Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. from
Columbia University and was a Postdoctoral
Fellow in Biology at Harvard University. He
has been a Visiting Professor at University of
California, San Diego, Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine, and Harvard Medical School.
A nationally acclaimed bioethicist, Munson is a
medical ethicist for the National Eye Institute
and a consultant for the National Cancer Insti¬
tute. He is also a member of the Washington
University School of Medicine Human Studies
Committee.
His other books include Raising the Dead: Organ
Transplants, Ethics, and Society (named one of
the "Best Science and Medicine Books of 2002"
by the National Library Association), Reasoning
in Medicine (with Daniel Albert and Michael
Resnik), Elements of Reasoning and Basics of Rea¬
soning (both with David Conway), and Outcome
Uncertain: Cases and Contexts in Bioethics. He is
also author of the novels Nothing Human, Fan
Mail, and Night Vision.