Bioethics in the clinic : Hippocratic reflections / Grant R. Gillett.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2004], ©2004.

xi, 309 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.

The 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.