Medical ethics : a very short introduction / Tony Hope.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2004], ©2004.

xiii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-144) and index.

On why medical ethics is exciting -- Euthanasia: good medical practice, or murder? -- Why undervaluing 'statistical' people costs lives -- People who don't exist, at least not yet -- A tool-box for reasoning -- Inconsistencies about madness -- How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality -- Is medical research the new imperialism? -- Family medicine meets the House of Lords.