Recommended Titles and Treatises

Medical Ethics

Principles of biomedical ethics

by Tom Beauchamp. Oxford University Press. 6th edition. 2009.
417 pages. Updated by new edition.

This is one of the fundamental titles in biomedical ethics. The authors discuss four principles that are at the center of biomedical ethics: respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice. The volume is divided into three parts with the first covering moral foundations, the second covering moral principles, and final section covering theory and method.