The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics, Second Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300093964)

As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also must wrestle with new and troubling choices-who should receive scarce and vital treatment, how we determine when life ends, what limits should be placed on care for the dying, and more. This book by renowned theologian Paul Ramsey, first published thirty years ago, anticipated these moral and ethical issues and addressed them with cogency and power, providing the intellectual foundations for the field of bioethics. This second edition of Ramsey's classic work includes a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May that help to locate and interpret Ramsey historically and intellectually.

Author: Paul Ramsey, Margaret Farley, Albert Jonsen
ISBN-10: 0300093969
ISBN-13: 9780300093964
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.11w x 0.91d