Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of cases that have shaped medical ethics, with philosophical, legal, and historical backgrounds / Gregory E. Pence.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-492) and indexes.
Contents
Classic cases about death and dying -- Comas : Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan -- Requests to die : Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Physician-assisted dying : Jack Kevorkian -- Classic cases about the beginning of life -- In vitro fertilization : Louise Brown -- Surrogacy : Baby M -- Abortion : Kenneth Edelin -- Letting impaired newborns die : Baby Jane Doe -- Classic cases about research and experimental treatments -- Animal subjects : the Philadelphia head-injury study on primates -- Human subjects : the Tuskegee syphilis study -- Organ transplants : Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant -- Artificial hearts : Barney Clark -- Allocations of artificial and transplantable organs : the God committee -- Infants and medical research : Baby Fae and Baby Theresa -- Classic cases about individual rights and the public good -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment : Joyce Brown -- Preventing teenage pregnancy : Bertha -- Presymptomatic testing for genetic disease : Nancy Wexler -- AIDS and mandatory testing for HIV : Kimberly Bergalis -- A model for a new American medical system : Medicare.
